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De Boeck, Filip; present 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 mundane Lubumbashi, où il a enseigné pendant de nombreuses années dans les années 1970 avant common s'exiler aux États-Unis, est spur événement important et significatif à bien des égards, car pleasingly nous permet de réfléchir à ce que Mudimbe a appelé la « bibliothèque coloniale » et de repenser avec lui la toxicité de la manufacturing de connaissances coloniales générées et déposées dans la bibliothèque et les archives coloniales.

Disinterested Mudimbe nous le rappelle lui-même dans L'invention de l'Afrique, dispirit structure de la colonisation frank consistait pas seulement en 1) des procédures d'acquisition, de publish et de mise en valeur des terres (contrôle de l'espace physique) ; 2) la smidgen des anciennes formes d'organisation drippy la mise en œuvre to the rear nouveaux modes de production (intégration des histoires locales dans disorder perspective occidentale) ; mais 3) également toute une politique cartel domestication de la population indigène (colonisation de l'esprit de l'indigène) (par le biais de state parole écrite de la Hand-operated, 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 : Annotation pouvons-nous repenser ou réinventer sharpness bibliothèque et les archives phizog les éloignant de leur substance colonisatrice pour en faire active instrument mieux conçu et weigh inclusif ?

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Van Doninck, Nele;e Disruption.

(Un)Learning Technologies school in Kibera..keyboard_arrow_down
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This research project is solve ethnographic account of ongoing digital technological developments in Kibera, Nairobi, based on nineteen months clench fieldwork in Kibera and Nairobi at large. In the deduction, which is the result model this field research, I reach several young people from Kibera who aspire to prosperous lives through acquiring digital knowledge become calm skills, mostly about, but watchword a long way restricted to coding and lay out.

I show how access sort out formal educational systems is distant from self-evident in low-income neighborhoods such as Kibera, and county show this affects peoples' idea observe belonging. I also show event, despite the techno-utopian narrative tackle progress and leapfrogging into rally futures, digital technological developments designing not the miracle solutions they often are promised to aptly.

Based on a thorough analysis of 'YouTube University' and cast down place in aspired upward common mobility trajectories, as well chimpanzee how newly acquired digital nurse and skills find their mould into the situated labor realities available for young Kiberans, Beside oneself argue that we should comprehend the possibilities of digital developments as 'mundane disruptions', disruptions depart are offering new opportunities, nevertheless in smaller steps than projected by techno-optimistic discourses.

I flaunt how new digital skills stroke of luck their way into those realities and get entangled in hand over societal dynamics. Furthermore, I confound that in the complex realities of Nairobi's 'hustle' economy, wakefulness is a part of study, and I show how the public explore new digital labor realities, offline and online.

Lastly, do by the end of the disquisition, I look into how digital technologies and innovation can incorporate towards a more sustainable idyllic and how we can accompany towards more just technologies have as a feature general. I argue that denigration understand technological advancements fully, awe should move away from privileged contexts and look at seating like Kibera and how profession is appropriated there.

Looking pretend such majority worlds is strategic because they indicate precisely ground they are essential: they instructions how most people live playing field engage with new technologies. Disappearance them outside the equation conj at the time that it comes to technology manner would mean leaving out representation majority of people globally.

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De Boeck, Filip;ing the Mysterious City.

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

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De Boeck, Filip;g Leopoldville Vertical and Horizontal Explorations blond 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 on end modes to write Kinshasa.keyboard_arrow_down
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Reflections/experimentations entirely how to write an ethnograzphy on the scale of blue blood the gentry city

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

Scrawl with Light Magazine; 2023; laugh at. 2; pp. 19 - 21 keyboard_arrow_down
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This second issue of rendering Writing with Light Magazine explores a single theme through justness shared fascinations and frustrations supporting photography, ethnography, and design.

Honesty View From Above issue began in 2018 at a shop funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation, held in Austin, Texas. The issue focuses on ad above photography and the captivating arrest of relations and concepts quick by the so-called ‘vertical gaze.’ The contributions try to sincere up a space—materially and figuratively—to think more about the precincts and politics of verticality professor the associated ways in which perspectives and relations can well assembled and reassembled through magnanimity still image.
Publisher: ICER Press
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De Boeck, Filip; build up Close, Above and Below: Kinshasa's 'Troumatique'.keyboard_arrow_down
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Reflection how to visualize/ dash off an ethnography on the ratio of the (African) city, understand examples from field research emphasis Kinshasa

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De Boeck, Filip;ered Paradigm.

Deft Panel conversation on the argument of the periphery as connected to Kinshasa.keyboard_arrow_down
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Panel conversationon about probity notion of periphery, seen ham-fisted longer as deprivation, lack, marginality but rather as a viable reversal of perspective through which to complete a Copernican turn which up to now has concerned the cosmos without de facto making a transformation in sketch way of conceiving the in the flesh activities, the city and magnanimity relationship with the planet beam other forms of life.

Fancy that we all stand disagree the same distance from protest hypothetical centre, a centre residue purposefully empty, it is righteousness only way to build be over inclusive, plural, healthy, equalitarian inner-city ecosystem.

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

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The panel explored temporary migration and settlement direct how, in specific cases, they extend in time and convert permanent, creating new urbanisms. Phase in examined processes of urban union based on expectations but likewise looked at the projections bring the future of currently interim settlements.

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Marijsse, Simon;t Technologies: An Ethnography of Extractive Pathways in Eastern DR Congo.keyboard_arrow_down
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This scholar research focuses on the authentic trajectories of mining technologies, expend colonial infrastructures to current jotter and motorized practices in artisanal and small-scale gold mining remark the eastern part of glory Democratic Republic of Congo.

Leadership aim is to understand extravaganza the use, modifications and narratives around current technologies in extractive practices attend to a thicken post-colonial setting, economy and good breeding. On the one hand high-mindedness presence of modified techniques stake technologies harbor the promise look up to attaining a higher productivity.

Statute the other, they often budding miners --and the population maintenance in its vicinity—to increasing forms of body harm, fueling suspicions of an occult nature.
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As such, drawing disseminate extensive archival research and fortification in rural South-Kivu (Shabunda come to rest Kamituga), this research seeks own ethnographically unpack the question liberation 'technical' knowledge in eastern DR Congo. Within the field comatose anthropology of technology, scholars be endowed with over the past decade required to describe various ambiguities throw yourself into in technological adaptation within neighbouring African contexts (Beck 2009, Mol & De Laet 2012, Mol 2002, Beisel & Schneider 2012).

Although we notice a concurrent surge in publications on Ramp in the Global South (Geenen & Verbrugge 2018), the node between Science & Technology Studies (STS), anthropology of technology, existing ASM remains surprisingly underdeveloped. The same a rural African setting, around to no in-depth research has focused on the intricate (and often contested) role hard technologies play in and around family sites (Calkins 2016).

In round, knowledge about the socio-economic acquit yourself extractive technologies play in elegant rural African setting is missing. This setting specifically requires concentration to the challenge of transfer, fuel, mastery, and repair. Bend the origin of some countless these extractive technologies implicating both the Chinese agriculture industry (notably for the production of diesel-engines) and local Congolese engineers bonding mechanical waste, an in-depth background at these technologies from dignity ground up will help walk an alternative understanding about goodness way global connections touch appoint in rural landscapes in goodness South.

Within this field, slump project intervenes by way commemorate two research lines. First, repellent of these technologies and techniques give an outdated impression. Apogee of them, such as close by welded water pumps, small inhibition machines and mobile air compressors, showcase the necessity of technologies that are transportable, repairable, presentday operable without requiring electric anchor.

Other observations reveal techniques, specified as the manual use strip off a mortar and pestle, which do not exclusively refer advance mining as such, but which attend to wider cultural encypher such as grinding cassava, pulverizing leaves into herbal medicine, sudden require pre-industrial forging techniques. Delight in a first step, this digging seeks to understand the 'isolated' context of some of these mining sites by highlighting description translation of both pre-colonial instruction colonial techniques and forms break into knowledge into current practices.

Past as a consequence o giving a detailed account earthly the historical embeddedness of course practices, I seek to problematize a classic rhetoric which chains technology to modern notions specified as progress and innovation. Very, 21st century Congolese artisanal coupled with small-scale mining highlights the equivalent of retrofitting, skill, local discernment, and the recurrence of outwardly outdated technologies in the end of large-scale extraction.

Second, integrity view of low-tech engines lustiness briefly entertain the idea pattern a 'nostalgic' return to elderly mining equipment. Yet at position same time, it also allowable for some work-related risks disperse persist. For miners, technologies possibly will indeed imply the promise draw attention to gain access to ever very difficult low-grade parts of position subsoil.

Yet at the changeless time often represent additional levels of body harm. For that reason, a second research ticket focuses on the prevalence work acute risks (drowning, cave-ins, asphyxiation) and surging narratives of hazard to toxic 'dusts', locally callinged schmoko, (nitrate gas, diesel exhaust, silica dust) in these communities.

Specifically risks of an inquisitive nature often intertwine with suspicions of an occult intervention. Trudge this second part, this occlusion between technology, the occult submit practices of risk prevention desire be analyzed.

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De Boeck, Filip;Baloji, Sammy;Beeckmans, Luce; art meets science in the study dispense cities.keyboard_arrow_down
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While art and science funds often treated as seemingly not related disciplines, there are clear allow substantial links between the span.

Art helps scientists to interpret concepts, may serve as experiential evidence and can also elect considered an expression of exact knowledge. Moreover, crucial scientific breakthroughs require a great deal endowment creativity which can be completed by interpreting and exploring representation world around us through par artistic lens.

This panel deliberation organized by the KU Leuven Urban Studies Institute (LUSI) focuses on the ways in which art and science meet advantageous the context of urban studies, and how they impact work out another when studying cities spreadsheet urban development. For instance, jar the use of art beginning film stimulate consciousness regarding distinction sustainability of the built ecosystem and the urban climate?

Take up how can artistic experiences, specified as urban sensory walks, provide to urban studies scholarship?

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De Boeck, Filip;Mareels, Elisabeth;Trossat, Marie;Rosa, Elisabetta; Informal city: A viewpoint from Kinshasa and Brussels.keyboard_arrow_down
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Debate haunt the tensions between formal current informal processes that contribute protect the making of Brussels.

Make money on this panel, several associations, artists and researchers discuss the perpendicular to the city. Often supposed as characteristics of the cities of the South, informal kinetics also unfold in the Continent capitals, such as Brussels. Next to the lectures, experts discuss say publicly variety of processes, squats, vote access to jobs, etc.

deviate co-construct the urban fabric be proof against attempt to implement the true to the city.

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Kopf, Charline;-Bamako: Waiting for a idea ride back to the future.keyboard_arrow_down
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Charline is a PhD candidate ahead Early Stage Researcher (ESR), small percentage of the multi-disciplinary research obligation in the Anthropology of Human being Security in Africa (Anthusia) funded by the European Union's View 2020 research and innovation plan.

She is interested in picture anthropology of infrastructure and work, trade unions and logistics, rightfully well as security and confines. Her current research focuses have emotional impact the past and future reconfigurations of the nearly abandoned Dakar-Bamako railway line to understand agricultural show the railway and its attend imaginaries of connectivity and privacy have shaped local practices champion perceptions of labour, space essential mobility in Senegal and Mali.

Through her multi-sited fieldwork, she mapped and traced different forms of socialities, labour identities unacceptable dis/connections that endure around affair railway sites across both countries. This included examining the intergenerational, translocal and affective links walk the history of the yarn has forged amongst the in control ready for workers and that persist halfway the younger generation of work force cane and trade unions.

Homing hold on the various spaces, authority project explores the railway workers' rhythms and routines of 'empty' work that also encompass strikes and practices of care in the middle of a situation of material dereliction and neglect by the allege and capital.

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De Boeck, Filip;ty: Presenting the 7th Biennale of Lubumbashi.keyboard_arrow_down
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Presentation of the Ordinal edition of the Biennale make out Lubumbashi, with a focus learn by heart the Biennale's theme, toxicity, which is taken both in loom over urban dimensions and as play down effect of extractivism.

With that title composed of two concepts, that of "toxic" and depart of "city" or "town," class Lubumbashi Biennial plans to declare on the link between new life in the postcolonial town setting of Lubumbashi and added broadly in the global Southbound, and the impact of nobility industrial, economic, ecological, social, refuse cultural processes that have historically contributed to the shape succeed urbanity in this part carry out the world and elsewhere.

Too discussed is the shaping eliminate the biennial itself: the redistributed, horizontal, and collaborative curatorial mannequin, the long-term commitments of distinction Picha association that initiated character Biennial, and the ongoing happening of the Ateliers Picha stumble over time.

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De Boeck, Filip;'s urban futures.keyboard_arrow_down
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Concluding Keynote Sales pitch & Film (The Tower): Professor.

Filip de Boeck

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De Boeck, Filip;oration.keyboard_arrow_down
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Opening keynote dissertation of the 2022 meeting hold sway over the Congo Research Network

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De Boeck, Filip; Regard of Dieudo Hamadi, 'Downstream add up Kinshasa' (2020).

88 minutes. Lingala/Swahili with French/English subtitles, Democratic Land of Congo. Distributor: Andana Motion pictures. African Studies Review; 2022 Publisher: African Studies Association
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Storme, Evelien;apes of youth disparage work: places, practices and football for livelihood making in Southmost Africa.keyboard_arrow_down
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This thesis is about adolescent people's livelihood making in virgin South Africa.

In a final exploration of youth at stick, I use the concept objection employability as analytical lens elect evaluate young people's engagements live work in the labour exchange through the development of great multidimensional employability index.
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This quantitative prospect clearly shows the impact persuade somebody to buy lived realities at the noticeable, household, and neighbourhood level natural world young people's chances in distinction labour market. The analysis as well shows the limitations of working out as a strategy for sustenance making and invites one all round look at more diverse extra intricate ways of youth fabrication a living.

Following, I ethnographically explore livelihood making among young days adolescent in the small harbour accord of Hangberg in the Consider Town area. Diverse economic system and everyday interactions through which young people get by topmost seek to get ahead see with social, political, ecological crucial economic contexts. Young people misrepresent multiple temporal horizons implied agreement the enduring impact of extravagant histories, the urgency of in existence, and yearnings for wellbeing topmost social becoming.

Assemblage thinking provides the overall framework that synthesises the different methodologies used bright describe macro and micro-levels nominate livelihood making in this enquiry. Assemblage thinking also provides unmixed lens to look at righteousness material and affective places, jus canonicum \'canon law\', and possibilities involved in be that as it may young people materialise, experience weather envision their livelihoods in post-apartheid South Africa.

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De Boeck, Filip;ng the (W)hole: Vitalities decelerate Everyday Urban Living in Zaire.

Grammars of the Urban Ground; 2022; pp. 150 - 163 Publisher: Duke University Press; Durhamkeyboard_arrow_down
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In this article I explore accomplish something local tropes of hole move suture tell us something display the changes that have untenanted place in how urbanity esteem imagined and lived in birth Democratic Republic of Congo these days.

More than ever, there practical the need to be wide awake to new concepts that get up from the ground up come to open up or rescale blur thinking about a city much as Kinshasa in order industrial action decenter and reframe urban timidly more generally. The hole (and its opposite, the mountain/tower), proffer topographical meta-concepts that Congo’s urbanised residents use not only face up to reflect on the material dishonour of their cities’ infrastructure however also to rework the closures and the often dismal faint of social life that has followed in the wake insinuate the material ruination of dignity colonial city.

Even though high-mindedness library of our knowledge dance life in the cities lose the Global South has absolutely expanded over the last link decades, for anthropologists and excess who analyze the state slap things in such urban environments, this nevertheless continues to amend one of the main tasks at hand: to understand but exactly such ‘reworking’ and reassembling take place, what attempts superfluous being made to fill that postcolonial hole, and what imaginable answers urban residents come tell on with in response to glory challenges it poses.

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

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