Filip De Boeck
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 100923 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Filip De Boeck |
| PRENOMES | Filip |
| SOBRENOME | De Boeck |
| ASSINATURA | DE BOECK F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2510-0457 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 488 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Suturing the City
Dieudo Hamadi, director. Downstream to Kinshasa. 2020. 88 minutes. Lingala/Swahili with French/English subtitles, Democratic Republic of Congo. Distributor
Dieudo Hamadi, director. Downstream to Kinshasa. 2020. 88 minutes. Lingala/Swahili with French/English subtitles, Democratic Republic of Congo. Distributor: Andana Films. No price reported. - Volume 65 Issue 4
Obituary
Obituary for René Devisch (1944-2020
The City Reader
In this selection, from Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne’s Urban Theory Beyond the West (2011) urban anthropologist Filip De Boeck questions the way Western planning has been imposed on the populations of the colonized underdeveloped world. He argues that colonial and post-colonial cities take on a ghostly quality, both in the generic modernism of the administrative city centers and even more in the peripheral, often semi-rural shantytowns inhabited by…
Urban expansion, the politics of land, and occupation as infrastructure in Kinshasa
Urban Now
Visual Essay: In a collaborative effort between anthropology and photography, a collaboration that resulted in a book and an exhibition , visual artist Sammy Baloji and anthropologist Filip De Boeck reflect on these various –different but simultaneous- narratives of urban place-making. In this joint work we offer a visual study of things that defy verbal narration: the city’s affective landscapes and moods. As such we consider changes in how citi…
Urban Now
Eleven / Local Futures, the Future of the Local
Positing the Polis
Urban living constantly attempts to ‘suture’ the city, finding ways to stitch gains and losses, or pasts and futures together in the moment of the ‘urban now’. De Boeck’s reflection on the complexities of the postcolonial urban world in the Central African locale is shaped around the visual archive that he built up over the past years with photographer Sammy Baloji. This article addresses the possibilities of such a combination of ethnography and…
Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds
An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo’s urban worlds today. Focusing upon the ‘urban now’, a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references, the broken dreams of a colonial past, and the not yet realised promises of neoliberal futures, this book provides an ethnographic and photographic investigation of the complex meanings of living – and living together – in Congo’s urban worlds t…
“Spectral Kinshasa
This chapter focuses on urban design the way in which humans actually shape the built environment and the related concept of placemaking. As Peter Hall describes, during the first half century urban planning was taught in the North America it was essentially urban design closely related to both architecture and urban planning. Academics study cities or professionals work to build cities, material from many disciplines and professional fields is r…
"Divining" the city
Drawing on ethnographies of divinatory systems as well as on mathematical theories of the Möbius strip, this article unravels the complex weaving and knotting together of forms of sociality and survival in urban Congo. Inhabiting the urban, the author argues, requires strategies of amalgamation that resist being mapped linearly
"Poverty" and the Politics of Syncopation
By means of an ethnographic "urban acupuncture" of a specific building within the city of Kinshasa, this article explores how poverty effects emerging publics in the city. Poverty "rhythms" city life in specific ways, and these rhythms may be best understood in terms of a politics of the syncopated and the suspended through which urban publics are constantly splintered and reassembled. The suspensions and missed beats that thus punctuate urban da…
Inhabiting Ocular Ground
This article addresses the tensions that exist between the lives of city dwellers in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and those official attempts currently being launched by the Congolese government to create a new, albeit exclusionist, urban environment. During the campaign leading up to the 2006 presidential elections, President Kabila launched his "Cinq Chantiers" program, arguably the most ambitious project since the…
‘Dead society’ in a ‘cemetery city’
In recent decades, the meaning of death seems to have changed in profound ways in Kinshasa and indeed in the whole of Congo. The changing practices surrounding the place of death in the city will be analysed as specific, sometimes surprising and even shocking, ways by means of which young Kinois urbanites not only contest the realm of official politics and dominant religious discourses and practices, but also use the instance of death to rethink …
La ville de Kinshasa, une architecture du verbe
Capitale de la République démocratique du Congo, deuxième ville de l'Afrique subsaharienne, avec sept millions d'habitants, Kinshasa incarne aussi le chaos urbain actuel. Alors que son infrastructure semble inexistante ou vouée à disparaître, comment comprendre ce qui fait tenir la ville ? Pour cela, il faut avant tout décrire l'urbain dans sa relation avec le corps, la sexualité, la religion, l'argent, la folie et la mort
The Apocalyptic Interlude
Temporality in contemporary Kinshasa is of a very specific eschatological kind and takes its point of departure in the Bible, and more particularly in the Book of Revelation, which has become an omnipresent point of reference in Kinshasa's collective imagination. The lived-in time of everyday life in Kinshasa is projected against the canvas of the completion of everything, a completion which will be brought about by God. As such, the Book of Reve…
On Being Shege in Kinshasa
Garimpeiroworlds
This article offers a brief presentation of the diamond smuggling activities between the Angolan province of Lunda Norte and the bordering Congolese Kasai and (especially) Kwango region (and more particularly the administrative units of Kahemba and Kasongo Lunda. Over the past two decades these areas have become central in contributing to the ‘dollarisation’ of local economies in both Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo. As a result, national…
Faire et défaire la société
Makers & breakers of society: children, youth and politics in AfricaIn this introduction, the authors take up where recent work on the production of youth culture has left off: agency and the construction of life-styles. However, they refuse to relegate youth and their forms of agency to marginal sub-cultural spaces; they view youth as a social force which, while marginalized, is constituted as an distinct socio-political category
Postcolonialism, Power and Identity
Kinshasa
sponsorship: -Documenta XI, Kassel -Goethe institute Inter Nationes Lagos and Munich -Council for the Development of Social Science Research (CODESRIA), Dakar - Ford Foundation, New York
Kinshasa
"Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City offers an original analysis of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. The authors, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart, provide a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality that Kinshasa presents today, but also of a second, invisible city as it exists in the autochthonous mind and imagination in the form of a mirroring reality lurking undern…
Makers & breakers
Introduction: Children & youth in Africa by Filip de Boeck & Alcinda Honwana I Children & Youth In A Global Era Reflections on youth, from the past to the postcolony by Jean & John Comaroff II The Pain Of Agency, The Agency Of Pain Child-soldiers as interstitial & tactical agents by Alcinda Honwana - Young women in the Liberian civil war by Mats Utas - Conceptions of pain & children's expressions of it in Southern Africa by Pamela Reynolds - Cons…
Beyond the Grave
edition: 1st
Inhabiting Ocular Ground
This article addresses the tensions that exist between the lives of city dwellers in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and those official attempts currently being launched by the Congolese government to create a new, albeit exclusionist, urban environment. During the campaign leading up to the 2006 presidential elections, President Kabila launched his "Cinq Chantiers" program, arguably the most ambitious project since the…
Domesticating Diamonds and Dollars
This article explores the impact of the recent diamond traffic on both rural and urban life in southwestern Congo-Zaire, in an attempt at a 'multi-sited' ethnography of the circulation of cultural meanings, commodities, money and identities in an increasingly diffuse time-space, in which the standard dichotomies between rural and urban worlds, lived world and system, traditional and modern, or precapitalist and capitalist realities have lost much…
The Apocalyptic Interlude
Temporality in contemporary Kinshasa is of a very specific eschatological kind and takes its point of departure in the Bible, and more particularly in the Book of Revelation, which has become an omnipresent point of reference in Kinshasa's collective imagination. The lived-in time of everyday life in Kinshasa is projected against the canvas of the completion of everything, a completion which will be brought about by God. As such, the Book of Reve…
Garimpeiroworlds
This article offers a brief presentation of the diamond smuggling activities between the Angolan province of Lunda Norte and the bordering Congolese Kasai and (especially) Kwango region (and more particularly the administrative units of Kahemba and Kasongo Lunda. Over the past two decades these areas have become central in contributing to the ‘dollarisation’ of local economies in both Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo. As a result, national…
Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds
An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo’s urban worlds today. Focusing upon the ‘urban now’, a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references, the broken dreams of a colonial past, and the not yet realised promises of neoliberal futures, this book provides an ethnographic and photographic investigation of the complex meanings of living – and living together – in Congo’s urban worlds t…
Le « deuxième monde » et les « enfants-sorciers » en république démocratique du Congo
Depuis quelques années, on observe à Kinshasa et ailleurs une recrudescence des accusations de sorcellerie frappant les enfants. Les histoires d'« enfants-sorciers » sont ainsi devenues partie intégrante de la vie quotidienne. Ce phénomène peut s'interpréter comme une manifestation du bouleversement des imaginaires et des réseaux sociaux urbains dans un Congo en crise. Il met en lumière une brèche croissante entre le « premier monde » de la réali…
Ndembu, Luunda and Yaka Divination Compared
Filip de Boeck, , Ndembu, Luunda and Yaka Divination Compared: From Representation and Social Engineering to Embodiment and Worldmaking, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 24, Fasc. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 98-133
"Poverty" and the Politics of Syncopation
By means of an ethnographic "urban acupuncture" of a specific building within the city of Kinshasa, this article explores how poverty effects emerging publics in the city. Poverty "rhythms" city life in specific ways, and these rhythms may be best understood in terms of a politics of the syncopated and the suspended through which urban publics are constantly splintered and reassembled. The suspensions and missed beats that thus punctuate urban da…
When Hunger Goes Around the Land
Examen des dynamiques culturelles de la faim, des pratiques et des experiences alimentaires des Aluund du sud-ouest zairois. Les donnees ethnographiques montrent que les perceptions et les attitudes envers la nourriture et la faim expriment plus qu'un manque de nutrition. La faim represente un equivalent a la fois physique et cosmologique des relations sociales perturbantes. La faim circule de village en village selon un mouvement inverse a celui…
Of Trees and Kings
By means of a detailed analysis of the relationship between the political body and a particular species of tree among the Aluund of Southwestern Zaire, this article demonstrates the specific ways in which traditional political structure and ideology are constituted by ritual and vice versa. Secondly, it offers a reflection upon the ways in which vernacular concepts are translated into anthropological metalanguage and presents a reconsideration of…
"Divining" the city
Drawing on ethnographies of divinatory systems as well as on mathematical theories of the Möbius strip, this article unravels the complex weaving and knotting together of forms of sociality and survival in urban Congo. Inhabiting the urban, the author argues, requires strategies of amalgamation that resist being mapped linearly
Borderland Breccia
Borderland Breccia: The Mutant Hero in the Historical Imagination of a Central-African Diamond Frontier Filip De Boeck Introduction The ethnographic setting of this paper is a contemporary diamond frontier along the borderline between Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). 1 The diamond frontier described here is not only an intermediate geographical reality on the periphery of two different states. The frontier-setting whi…
Therapeutic efficacy and consensus among the Aluund of south-western Zaire
This article reconsiders John Janzen's notions of social consensus and therapeutic efficacy within a pluralistic medical framework, and combines a semantic and praxeological approach to an extended case of affliction: that of a group and its leaders being confronted with sickness and death and reacting through health-seeking strategies. First, it is argued that an understanding of representations of aetiology and their management necessitates an …
La ville de Kinshasa, une architecture du verbe
Capitale de la République démocratique du Congo, deuxième ville de l'Afrique subsaharienne, avec sept millions d'habitants, Kinshasa incarne aussi le chaos urbain actuel. Alors que son infrastructure semble inexistante ou vouée à disparaître, comment comprendre ce qui fait tenir la ville ? Pour cela, il faut avant tout décrire l'urbain dans sa relation avec le corps, la sexualité, la religion, l'argent, la folie et la mort
Faire et défaire la société
Makers & breakers of society: children, youth and politics in AfricaIn this introduction, the authors take up where recent work on the production of youth culture has left off: agency and the construction of life-styles. However, they refuse to relegate youth and their forms of agency to marginal sub-cultural spaces; they view youth as a social force which, while marginalized, is constituted as an distinct socio-political category
Positing the Polis
Urban living constantly attempts to ‘suture’ the city, finding ways to stitch gains and losses, or pasts and futures together in the moment of the ‘urban now’. De Boeck’s reflection on the complexities of the postcolonial urban world in the Central African locale is shaped around the visual archive that he built up over the past years with photographer Sammy Baloji. This article addresses the possibilities of such a combination of ethnography and…
Symbolic and Diachronic Study of Inter-Cultural Therapeutic and Divinatory Roles Among Aluund ('Lunda') and Chokwe in the Upper Kwaango (South Western Zaire)
This article attempts to analyze inter-cultural ritual (therapeutic and divinatory) interaction between the aLuund and Chokwe of Southwestern Zaire. The fact that the aLuund turn to neighbouring groups for ritual and therapeutic assistance invites questions with regard to the nature of the unity of Luunda cultural order and identity, and the subject of the cultural praxis. A reflection is offered upon the ways in which cultural traditions and ide…
"On van der Geest and Whyte's Article "The Charm of Medicines
Urban expansion, the politics of land, and occupation as infrastructure in Kinshasa
Qui a obstrué la cascade? Analyse sémantique du rituel de la circoncision chez les Komo du Zaire
Causes, Origines et Agents de la Maladie chez les Peuples sans Écriture . Andras Zempléni
On bushbucks without horns
On bushbucks without horns : male and female among the Aluund of Southwest Zaïre. Among the Aluund of southwestern Zaïre, the mwiingoony is open to all circumcised men ; and the chiwiil, to all women who have undergone menarche rites. To initiate men and women into these « sodalities » means transforming them from « bushbucks without horns » (the uninitiated) into knowledgeable initiates so that they acquire a practical awareness of their distinc…
Therapeutic efficacy and consensus among the Aluund of south-western Zaire
This article reconsiders John Janzen's notions of social consensus and therapeutic efficacy within a pluralistic medical framework, and combines a semantic and praxeological approach to an extended case of affliction: that of a group and its leaders being confronted with sickness and death and reacting through health-seeking strategies. First, it is argued that an understanding of representations of aetiology and their management necessitates an …
"On van der Geest and Whyte's Article "The Charm of Medicines
Symbolic and Diachronic Study of Inter-Cultural Therapeutic and Divinatory Roles among the aLuund ('Lunda') and Chokwe in the Upper Kwaango (South-Western Zaire)
This article attempts to analyze inter-cultural ritual (therapeutic and divinatory) interaction between the aLuund and Chokwe of Southwestern Zaire. The fact that the aLuund turn to neighbouring groups for ritual and therapeutic assistance invites questions with regard to the nature of the unity of Luunda cultural order and identity, and the subject of the cultural praxis. A reflection is offered upon the ways in which cultural traditions and ide…
Symbolic and Diachronic Study of Inter-Cultural Therapeutic and Divinatory Roles Among Aluund ('Lunda') and Chokwe in the Upper Kwaango (South Western Zaire)
This article attempts to analyze inter-cultural ritual (therapeutic and divinatory) interaction between the aLuund and Chokwe of Southwestern Zaire. The fact that the aLuund turn to neighbouring groups for ritual and therapeutic assistance invites questions with regard to the nature of the unity of Luunda cultural order and identity, and the subject of the cultural praxis. A reflection is offered upon the ways in which cultural traditions and ide…
Ndembu, Luunda and Yaka Divination Compared
Filip de Boeck, , Ndembu, Luunda and Yaka Divination Compared: From Representation and Social Engineering to Embodiment and Worldmaking, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 24, Fasc. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 98-133
Of Trees and Kings
By means of a detailed analysis of the relationship between the political body and a particular species of tree among the Aluund of Southwestern Zaire, this article demonstrates the specific ways in which traditional political structure and ideology are constituted by ritual and vice versa. Secondly, it offers a reflection upon the ways in which vernacular concepts are translated into anthropological metalanguage and presents a reconsideration of…
African Reflections
When Hunger Goes Around the Land
Examen des dynamiques culturelles de la faim, des pratiques et des experiences alimentaires des Aluund du sud-ouest zairois. Les donnees ethnographiques montrent que les perceptions et les attitudes envers la nourriture et la faim expriment plus qu'un manque de nutrition. La faim represente un equivalent a la fois physique et cosmologique des relations sociales perturbantes. La faim circule de village en village selon un mouvement inverse a celui…
Catastrophe and Creation
Democracy and the State-Society Paradigm
status: Published
Domesticating Diamonds and Dollars
This article explores the impact of the recent diamond traffic on both rural and urban life in southwestern Congo-Zaire, in an attempt at a 'multi-sited' ethnography of the circulation of cultural meanings, commodities, money and identities in an increasingly diffuse time-space, in which the standard dichotomies between rural and urban worlds, lived world and system, traditional and modern, or precapitalist and capitalist realities have lost much…
Faire et défaire la société
Makers & breakers of society: children, youth and politics in AfricaIn this introduction, the authors take up where recent work on the production of youth culture has left off: agency and the construction of life-styles. However, they refuse to relegate youth and their forms of agency to marginal sub-cultural spaces; they view youth as a social force which, while marginalized, is constituted as an distinct socio-political category
Le « deuxième monde » et les « enfants-sorciers » en république démocratique du Congo
Depuis quelques années, on observe à Kinshasa et ailleurs une recrudescence des accusations de sorcellerie frappant les enfants. Les histoires d'« enfants-sorciers » sont ainsi devenues partie intégrante de la vie quotidienne. Ce phénomène peut s'interpréter comme une manifestation du bouleversement des imaginaires et des réseaux sociaux urbains dans un Congo en crise. Il met en lumière une brèche croissante entre le « premier monde » de la réali…
Borderland Breccia
Borderland Breccia: The Mutant Hero in the Historical Imagination of a Central-African Diamond Frontier Filip De Boeck Introduction The ethnographic setting of this paper is a contemporary diamond frontier along the borderline between Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). 1 The diamond frontier described here is not only an intermediate geographical reality on the periphery of two different states. The frontier-setting whi…
Garimpeiroworlds
This article offers a brief presentation of the diamond smuggling activities between the Angolan province of Lunda Norte and the bordering Congolese Kasai and (especially) Kwango region (and more particularly the administrative units of Kahemba and Kasongo Lunda. Over the past two decades these areas have become central in contributing to the ‘dollarisation’ of local economies in both Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo. As a result, national…
On Being Shege in Kinshasa
The Apocalyptic Interlude
Temporality in contemporary Kinshasa is of a very specific eschatological kind and takes its point of departure in the Bible, and more particularly in the Book of Revelation, which has become an omnipresent point of reference in Kinshasa's collective imagination. The lived-in time of everyday life in Kinshasa is projected against the canvas of the completion of everything, a completion which will be brought about by God. As such, the Book of Reve…
La ville de Kinshasa, une architecture du verbe
Capitale de la République démocratique du Congo, deuxième ville de l'Afrique subsaharienne, avec sept millions d'habitants, Kinshasa incarne aussi le chaos urbain actuel. Alors que son infrastructure semble inexistante ou vouée à disparaître, comment comprendre ce qui fait tenir la ville ? Pour cela, il faut avant tout décrire l'urbain dans sa relation avec le corps, la sexualité, la religion, l'argent, la folie et la mort
‘Dead society’ in a ‘cemetery city’
In recent decades, the meaning of death seems to have changed in profound ways in Kinshasa and indeed in the whole of Congo. The changing practices surrounding the place of death in the city will be analysed as specific, sometimes surprising and even shocking, ways by means of which young Kinois urbanites not only contest the realm of official politics and dominant religious discourses and practices, but also use the instance of death to rethink …
Inhabiting Ocular Ground
This article addresses the tensions that exist between the lives of city dwellers in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and those official attempts currently being launched by the Congolese government to create a new, albeit exclusionist, urban environment. During the campaign leading up to the 2006 presidential elections, President Kabila launched his "Cinq Chantiers" program, arguably the most ambitious project since the…
“Spectral Kinshasa
This chapter focuses on urban design the way in which humans actually shape the built environment and the related concept of placemaking. As Peter Hall describes, during the first half century urban planning was taught in the North America it was essentially urban design closely related to both architecture and urban planning. Academics study cities or professionals work to build cities, material from many disciplines and professional fields is r…
"Divining" the city
Drawing on ethnographies of divinatory systems as well as on mathematical theories of the Möbius strip, this article unravels the complex weaving and knotting together of forms of sociality and survival in urban Congo. Inhabiting the urban, the author argues, requires strategies of amalgamation that resist being mapped linearly
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