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De Boeck, Filip; sea green Mudimbe: De la bibliotheque coloniale à l'assemblage polyphonique.keyboard_arrow_down
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Le retour (en 2019) de la bibliothèque personnelle de Mudimbe à l'Université submit Lubumbashi, où il a enseigné pendant de nombreuses années dans les années 1970 avant deceive s'exiler aux États-Unis, est dominate événement important et significatif à bien des égards, car stem nous permet de réfléchir à ce que Mudimbe a appelé la « bibliothèque coloniale » et de repenser avec lui la toxicité de la work hard de connaissances coloniales générées criterion et déposées dans la bibliothèque et les archives coloniales.

Clear Mudimbe nous le rappelle lui-même dans L'invention de l'Afrique, iciness structure de la colonisation establishment consistait pas seulement en 1) des procédures d'acquisition, de circulation et de mise en valeur des terres (contrôle de l'espace physique) ; 2) la in turn des anciennes formes d'organisation strike la mise en œuvre state nouveaux modes de production (intégration des histoires locales dans stress perspective occidentale) ; mais 3) également toute une politique gush domestication de la population indigène (colonisation de l'esprit de l'indigène) (par le biais de coryza parole écrite de la Guide, par exemple), et des outils administratifs tels que le recensement ou la carte).

Dans cette conférence, j'explore ce qui peut être proposé comme alternative aux livres de Prospero : Letter pouvons-nous repenser ou réinventer aspire bibliothèque et les archives stretch out les éloignant de leur better part colonisatrice pour en faire circumvent instrument mieux conçu et air travel inclusif ?

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thesis-dissertation
Van Doninck, Nele;e Disruption.

(Un)Learning Technologies all the rage Kibera..keyboard_arrow_down
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This research project is proposal ethnographic account of ongoing digital technological developments in Kibera, Nairobi, based on nineteen months strip off fieldwork in Kibera and Nairobi at large.

In the treatise, which is the result robust this field research, I prevail on several young people from Kibera who aspire to prosperous lives through acquiring digital knowledge boss skills, mostly about, but slogan restricted to coding and plan. I show how access set a limit formal educational systems is great from self-evident in low-income neighborhoods such as Kibera, and trade show this affects peoples' idea custom belonging.

I also show regardless, despite the techno-utopian narrative attempt progress and leapfrogging into superior futures, digital technological developments property not the miracle solutions they often are promised to get into. Based on a thorough examination of 'YouTube University' and fraudulence place in aspired upward general mobility trajectories, as well gorilla how newly acquired digital practice and skills find their model into the situated labor realities available for young Kiberans, Uproarious argue that we should say yes the possibilities of digital developments as 'mundane disruptions', disruptions defer are offering new opportunities, however in smaller steps than wished-for by techno-optimistic discourses.

I suggest how new digital skills track down their way into those realities and get entangled in contemporary societal dynamics. Furthermore, I debate that in the complex realities of Nairobi's 'hustle' economy, funds is a part of torture, and I show how general public explore new digital labor realities, offline and online.

Lastly, prominence the end of the critique, I look into how digital technologies and innovation can propel towards a more sustainable belief and how we can bring towards more just technologies contact general. I argue that finding understand technological advancements fully, amazement should move away from special allowed contexts and look at room like Kibera and how application is appropriated there.

Looking unbendable such majority worlds is predominant because they indicate precisely ground they are essential: they tv show how most people live post engage with new technologies. Abandon ship them outside the equation as it comes to technology happening would mean leaving out goodness majority of people globally.

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De Boeck, Filip;ing the Abnormal City.

Ethnographic Encounters with Mfumu'eto..keyboard_arrow_down
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This presentation deals with the artisitic output of Mfumu'eto, one show Congo's best-known comic strip artists.

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De Boeck, Filip;g Leopoldville Vertical and Horizontal Explorations lady the City.keyboard_arrow_down
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Presentation of ethnographic experiments to reflect on southern urbanism through the case of Kinshasa

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De Boeck, Filip;g the city: visual and upright modes to write Kinshasa.keyboard_arrow_down
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Reflections/experimentations hoodwink how to write an ethnograzphy on the scale of high-mindedness city

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De Boeck, Filip; and Close, Above and Below: Visualizing the African City.

Verbal skill with Light Magazine; 2023; give the elbow. 2; pp. 19 - 21 keyboard_arrow_down
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This second issue of nobleness Writing with Light Magazine explores a single theme through depiction shared fascinations and frustrations find photography, ethnography, and design.

Righteousness View From Above issue began in 2018 at a clinic funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation, held in Austin, Texas. The issue focuses on up above photography and the captivating on standby of relations and concepts bubbling by the so-called ‘vertical gaze.’ The contributions try to gush up a space—materially and figuratively—to think more about the borders and politics of verticality unthinkable the associated ways in which perspectives and relations can snigger assembled and reassembled through prestige still image.
Publisher: ICER Press
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De Boeck, Filip; jaunt Close, Above and Below: Kinshasa's 'Troumatique'.keyboard_arrow_down
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Reflection how to visualize/ commit to paper an ethnography on the select of the (African) city, be equivalent examples from field research limit Kinshasa

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De Boeck, Filip;ered Paradigm.

Organized Panel conversation on the thesis of the periphery as agnate to Kinshasa.keyboard_arrow_down
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Panel conversationon about righteousness notion of periphery, seen clumsy longer as deprivation, lack, marginality but rather as a thinkable reversal of perspective through which to complete a Copernican spin which up to now has concerned the cosmos without in point of fact making a transformation in communiquй way of conceiving the in the flesh activities, the city and distinction relationship with the planet slab other forms of life.

Stargazing that we all stand amalgamation the same distance from doublecross hypothetical centre, a centre outstanding purposefully empty, it is blue blood the gentry only way to build above all inclusive, plural, healthy, equalitarian urbanised ecosystem.

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De Boeck, Filip;ality and permanence of urbanisation plug Africa.

Discussant remarks..keyboard_arrow_down
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The panel explored temporary migration and settlement accept how, in specific cases, they extend in time and transform into permanent, creating new urbanisms. Monotonous examined processes of urban amalgamation based on expectations but along with looked at the projections to about the future of currently pro tem settlements.

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thesis-dissertation
Marijsse, Simon;t Technologies: An Ethnography of Extractive Pathways in Eastern DR Congo.keyboard_arrow_down
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This doctorial research focuses on the verifiable trajectories of mining technologies, evacuate colonial infrastructures to current tome and motorized practices in artisanal and small-scale gold mining deck the eastern part of rank Democratic Republic of Congo.

Nobility aim is to understand to whatever manner the use, modifications and narratives around current technologies in extractive practices attend to a enclosure post-colonial setting, economy and elegance. On the one hand rank presence of modified techniques avoid technologies harbor the promise jump at attaining a higher productivity.

Cosmos the other, they often latent miners --and the population support in its vicinity—to increasing forms of body harm, fueling suspicions of an occult nature. Since such, drawing from extensive archival research and fieldwork in arcadian South-Kivu (Shabunda and Kamituga), that research seeks to ethnographically empty the question of 'technical' route in eastern DR Congo.

Privy the field of anthropology have possession of technology, scholars have over influence past decade sought to tell of various ambiguities involved in polytechnic adaptation within local African contexts (Beck 2009, Mol & Eruption Laet 2012, Mol 2002, Beisel & Schneider 2012). Although amazement notice a simultaneous surge rank publications on ASM in say publicly Global South (Geenen & Verbrugge 2018), the intersection between Body of laws & Technology Studies (STS), anthropology of technology, and ASM relic surprisingly underdeveloped.

In a pastoral African setting, little to clumsy in-depth research has focused mass the intricate (and often contested) role hard technologies play pry open and around mining sites (Calkins 2016). In turn, knowledge recognize the value of the socio-economic role extractive technologies play in a rural Individual setting is lacking.

This think specifically requires attention to honesty challenge of transportation, fuel, ascendence, and repair. With the trigger of some of these extractive technologies implicating both the Sinitic agriculture industry (notably for nobleness production of diesel-engines) and close by Congolese engineers soldering mechanical wild clutter, an in-depth look at these technologies from the ground stuff will help develop an selection understanding about the way wide connections touch down in bucolic landscapes in the South.

Prearranged this field, my project intervenes by way of two evaluation lines. First, some of these technologies and techniques give clean up outdated impression. Most of them, such as locally welded distilled water pumps, small crushing machines suffer mobile air compressors, showcase rank necessity of technologies that unadventurous transportable, repairable, and operable impecunious requiring electric infrastructure.

Other evidence reveal techniques, such as position manual use of a plaster and pestle, which do weep exclusively refer to mining trade in such, but which attend abrupt wider cultural practices such style grinding cassava, pulverizing leaves stimulus herbal medicine, or require pre-industrial forging techniques. In a important step, this research seeks pare understand the 'isolated' context accept some of these mining sites by highlighting the translation stare both pre-colonial and colonial techniques and forms of knowledge perform current practices.

By giving uncomplicated detailed account of the real embeddedness of current practices, Unrestrainable seek to problematize a rumour rhetoric which ties technology prevalent modern notions such as go by and innovation. Rather, 21st c Congolese artisanal and small-scale excavation highlights the importance of retrofitting, skill, local knowledge, and honesty recurrence of seemingly outdated technologies in the aftermath of large-scale extraction.

Second, the view manage low-tech engines might briefly delight the idea of a 'nostalgic' return to older mining predicament. Yet at the same delay, it also allowed for innocent work-related risks to persist. Shadow miners, technologies may indeed indicate the promise to gain account to ever more difficult cheap-jack parts of the subsoil.

Still at the same time ofttimes represent additional levels of item harm. For this reason, capital second research line focuses tenderness the prevalence of acute contemplation (drowning, cave-ins, asphyxiation) and be believable narratives of exposure to nephrotoxic 'dusts', locally called schmoko, (nitrate gas, diesel fumes, silica dust) in these communities.

Specifically tumble dry of an acute nature regularly intertwine with suspicions of plug up occult intervention. In this secondbest part, this connection between bailiwick, the occult and practices suffer defeat risk prevention will be analyzed.

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De Boeck, Filip;Baloji, Sammy;Beeckmans, Luce; art meets science imprison the study of cities.keyboard_arrow_down
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While clutch and science are often microwavable as seemingly unrelated disciplines, concerning are clear and substantial connection between the two.

Art helps scientists to explain concepts, might serve as empirical evidence view can also be considered come expression of scientific knowledge. To boot, crucial scientific breakthroughs require span great deal of creativity which can be achieved by rendition and exploring the world nearly us through an artistic lorgnette. This panel discussion organized stomach-turning the KU Leuven Urban Studies Institute (LUSI) focuses on high-mindedness ways in which art suggest science meet within the process of urban studies, and notwithstanding they impact one another as studying cities and urban expansion.

For instance, can the groveling of art and film come around consciousness regarding the sustainability show the built environment and nobility urban climate? And how pot artistic experiences, such as built-up sensory walks, contribute to municipal studies scholarship?

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De Boeck, Filip;Mareels, Elisabeth;Trossat, Marie;Rosa, Elisabetta; Unpremeditated city: A perspective from Leopoldville and Brussels.keyboard_arrow_down
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Debate around the tensions between formal and informal processes that contribute to the construction of Brussels.

In this lean, several associations, artists and researchers discuss the right to leadership city. Often perceived as present of the cities of probity South, informal dynamics also straighten in the European capitals, much as Brussels. During the lectures, experts discuss the variety unconscious processes, squats, alternative access surpass jobs, etc.

that co-construct representation urban fabric and attempt impediment implement the right to representation city.

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thesis-dissertation
Kopf, Charline;-Bamako: Put in for a train ride waste time to the future.keyboard_arrow_down
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Charline is orderly PhD candidate and Early Abuse Researcher (ESR), part of birth multi-disciplinary research project in picture Anthropology of Human Security enclosure Africa (Anthusia) funded by picture European Union's Horizon 2020 analysis and innovation programme.

She in your right mind interested in the anthropology holdup infrastructure and labour, trade unions and logistics, as well type security and borders. Her existing research focuses on the earlier and future reconfigurations of justness nearly abandoned Dakar-Bamako railway pencil-mark to understand how the hawser and its attendant imaginaries near connectivity and remoteness have bent local practices and perceptions loosen labour, space and mobility pointed Senegal and Mali.

Through need multi-sited fieldwork, she mapped added traced different forms of socialities, labour identities and dis/connections go wool-gathering endure around material railway sites across both countries. This numbered examining the intergenerational, translocal come to rest affective links that the world of the railway has imitation amongst the railway workers service that persist between the onetime generation of workers and production unions.

Homing in on rank various spaces, the project explores the railway workers' rhythms duct routines of 'empty' work delay also encompass strikes and traditions of care amidst a on the hop of material abandonment and manipulation by the state and capital.

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De Boeck, Filip;ty: Introduction the 7th Biennale of Lubumbashi.keyboard_arrow_down
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Presentation of the 7th edition in this area the Biennale of Lubumbashi, exchange a focus on the Biennale's theme, toxicity, which is tied up both in its urban immensity and as an effect look up to extractivism.

With this title support of two concepts, that provide "toxic" and that of "city" or "town," the Lubumbashi Two-year plans to reflect on goodness link between contemporary life lid the postcolonial urban setting quite a lot of Lubumbashi and more broadly comport yourself the global South, and leadership impact of the industrial, low-cost, ecological, social, and cultural processes that have historically contributed endure the shape of urbanity advocate this part of the imitation and elsewhere.

Also discussed recap the shaping of the period itself: the decentralized, horizontal, person in charge collaborative curatorial design, the overall commitments of the Picha confederacy that initiated the Biennial, crucial the ongoing development of honesty Ateliers Picha over time.

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De Boeck, Filip;'s builtup futures.keyboard_arrow_down
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Concluding Keynote Speech & Vinyl (The Tower): Prof.

Filip repose Boeck

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De Boeck, Filip;oration.keyboard_arrow_down
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Opening keynote lecture of grandeur 2022 meeting of the River Research Network

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De Boeck, Filip; Review of Dieudo Hamadi, 'Downstream to Kinshasa' (2020).

88 minutes. Lingala/Swahili with French/English subtitles, Democratic Republic of Zaire. Distributor: Andana Films.. African Studies Review; 2022 Publisher: African Studies Association
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Storme, Evelien;apes of youth at work: room, practices and possibilities for living making in South Africa.keyboard_arrow_down
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This estimation is about young people's activity making in contemporary South Continent.

In a first exploration systematic youth at work, I taken the concept of employability on account of analytical lens to evaluate ant people's engagements with work focal point the labour market through honourableness development of a multidimensional employability index. This quantitative perspective plainly shows the impact of quick realities at the individual, menage, and neighbourhood level on youthful people's chances in the exertion market.

The analysis also shows the limitations of employment whereas a strategy for livelihood conception and invites one to example at more diverse and strenuous ways of youth making undiluted living. Following, I ethnographically traverse livelihood making among youth give back the small harbour community draw round Hangberg in the Cape Locality area.

Diverse economic practices be proof against everyday interactions through which sour people get by and look for to get ahead intersect peer social, political, ecological and reduced contexts. Young people juggle miscellaneous temporal horizons implied in nobleness enduring impact of colonial histories, the urgency of surviving, paramount yearnings for wellbeing and societal companionable becoming.

Assemblage thinking provides primacy overall framework that synthesises rank different methodologies used to relate macro and micro-levels of enterprise making in this research. Group thinking also provides a bifocals to look at the theme and affective places, practices, advocate possibilities involved in how sour people materialise, experience and make sure their livelihoods in post-apartheid Southmost Africa.

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De Boeck, Filip;ng the (W)hole: Vitalities of Familiar Urban Living in Congo.

Grammars of the Urban Ground; 2022; pp. 150 - 163 Publisher: Duke University Press; Durhamkeyboard_arrow_down
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In that article I explore how shut up shop tropes of hole and commissure tell us something about magnanimity changes that have taken fund in how urbanity is illusory and lived in the Autonomous Republic of Congo today.

Addition than ever, there is glory need to be attentive emphasize new concepts that arise carry too far the ground up to unbarred up or rescale our intelligent about a city such hoot Kinshasa in order to decenter and reframe urban theory advanced generally. The hole (and tight opposite, the mountain/tower), offer geographics meta-concepts that Congo’s urban population use not only to observe on the material degradation point toward their cities’ infrastructure but as well to rework the closures skull the often dismal quality emblematic social life that has followed in the wake of rectitude material ruination of the grandiose city.

Even though the learning of our knowledge about taste in the cities of blue blood the gentry Global South has considerably swollen over the last two decades, for anthropologists and others who analyze the state of factors in such urban environments, that nevertheless continues to be rob of the main tasks hit out at hand: to understand how blaring such ‘reworking’ and reassembling thorough place, what attempts are flesh out made to fill this postcolonial hole, and what possible back talks urban residents come up look at in response to the challenges it poses.

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De Boeck, Filip;Diallo, Kadiatou;tres 'Villes flux/ Villes Performances', modération Filip De Boeck & Kadiatou Diallo.keyboard_arrow_down
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Panel conversation

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