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Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaïre. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the total artworks of Art Nouveau to the aggrandizing sites of post-independence Kinshasa, Congo Style investigates the experiential qualities of man-made environments intended to entertain, delight, seduce and impress. In her study of visual culture, Ruth Sacks sets out to reinstate the compelling wonder of nationalist architecture from Kinshasa's post-independence era, such as the Tower of the Exchange (1974), Gécamines Tower (1977), and the artworks and exhibitions that accompanied them. While exploring post-independence nation-building, this book examines how the underlying ideology of Belgian Art Nouveau, a celebrated movement in Belgium, led to the dominating early colonial settler buildings of the ABC Hotels (circa 1908-13). Congo Style combines Sacks's practice as a visual artist and her academic scholarship to provide an original study of early colonial and independence-era modernist sites in their African context.

Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Art and state --- Architecture and state --- Art and society --- Architecture and society --- Kinshasa (Congo) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- State and architecture --- Arts --- Politics and art --- State and art --- Cultural policy --- Education and state --- Aesthetics --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Government policy --- Kinshasa, Zaire --- Kinshasha (Congo) --- Kinshasa (Zaire) --- Ville de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Ville-Province de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Leopoldville (Congo)

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Le jeune Isookanga quitte sa forêt et son village pygmée pour faire du business à Kinshasa. Sur son chemin, de nombreux personnages, des plus pauvres aux plus puissants, des plus vils aux plus naïfs, composent un saisissant tableau du Congo contemporain aux prises avec la mondialisation. Après Mathématiques congolaises (prix Jean Muno, grand prix littéraire de l’Afrique noire, prix littéraire de la SCAM, In Koli Jean Bofane n’a rien perdu de son énergie, de son humour ni de sa lucidité politique.

Pygmies --- Young men --- Globalization --- City and town life --- Success in business --- Self-reliance --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Assurance, Self --- Self-assurance --- Reliability --- Self-confidence --- Business --- Business failures --- Creative ability in business --- Prediction of occupational success --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Men --- Young adults --- Boys --- Pigmies --- Ethnology --- Psychological aspects --- Kinshasa (Congo) --- French literature (outside France) --- Kinshasa, Zaire --- Kinshasha (Congo) --- Kinshasa (Zaire) --- Ville de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Ville-Province de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Leopoldville (Congo) --- Pygmies - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Fiction --- Young men - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Fiction --- Globalization - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Fiction

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Economic geography --- Kinshasa --- City planning --- Urbanization --- Urban policy --- Urbanisme --- Urbanisation --- Politique urbaine --- Cities and towns --- Urban renewal --- Model cities --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- Land use, Urban --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Sociology, Urban --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Rural-urban migration --- Civic planning --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Human settlements --- Growth --- Government policy --- Management --- Kinshasa (Congo) --- Kinshasa, Zaire --- Kinshasha (Congo) --- Kinshasa (Zaire) --- Ville de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Ville-Province de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Leopoldville (Congo) --- Social conditions. --- Croissance urbaine --- Congo (République démocratique) --- Kinshasa (Congo, République démocratique)

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Les populations de nombreuses mégapoles du tiers monde ont dépassé de loin toute base économique apparente pour leur taille et leur survie. Dans ce volume, les spécialistes congolais et occidentaux des sciences sociales couvrent la plupart des aspects de la vie urbaine à Kinshasa, comment les gens ordinaires se bousculent pour une vie modeste; le fameux système de « négociation » kinois ordinaires se sont développés; et comment ils accèdent à la nourriture, à l’approvisionnement en eau, à la santé et à l’éducation. La NGOization de la prestation de services est analysée, tout comme l’incidence assez rare des émeutes urbaines. Tout aussi intéressantes sont les études des discours populaires (y compris la rumeur de rue, la sorcellerie, et les attitudes envers les grands hommes, comme les musiciens et les prédicateurs). Les études sont pleines des faits les plus surprenants et des phrases merveilleusement évocatrices inventées par les Kinois ordinaires alors qu’ils affrontent l’immense parcours d’obstacles qu’est la vie urbaine. Concret, lisible, intensément intéressant et toujours éclairant, ce livre est un modèle de la façon de faire de la sociologie urbaine dans le monde en développement d’aujourd’hui.

Political systems --- Sociology of environment --- Community organization --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Kinshasa --- Kinshasa (Congo) --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques --- Order --- Social structure --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Sociology, Urban --- -911.3:32 <6> --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Geopolitiek. Politieke geografie--Afrika --- #A0504PSA --- Order. --- 967.5 --- 911.3:32 <6> Geopolitiek. Politieke geografie--Afrika --- 967.5 Geschiedenis van Zaïre (Kongo) --- Geschiedenis van Zaïre (Kongo) --- Conditions économiques --- 911.3:32 <6> --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Kinshasa, Zaire --- Kinshasha (Congo) --- Kinshasa (Zaire) --- Ville de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Ville-Province de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Leopoldville (Congo) --- Comportement social --- Communauté --- Pauvreté --- Sociologie urbaine --- Congo --- Social structure - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Kinshasa --- Kinshasa (Congo) - Politics and government --- Kinshasa (Congo) - Social conditions --- Kinshasa (Congo) - Economic conditions

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How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion narratives, Christian songs, sermons, testimonies and deliverance rituals to produce commentaries on what it means to be an inhabitant of Kinshasa.

Sociology of religion --- Mass communications --- Sociology of culture --- Kinshasa --- Video recording in ethnology --- Television in religion --- Vidéo en ethnologie --- Eglises pentecôtistes --- Télévision et religion --- Social condtions. --- Religious television --- Televangelism --- Television, Religious --- Religious broadcasting --- Vidéo en ethnologie --- Eglises pentecôtistes --- Télévision et religion --- Anthropology of religion --- Motion pictures in ethnology --- Pentecostal churches --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Visual anthropology --- Television broadcasting --- Pentecostalism --- Moving-pictures in ethnology --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Religious aspects --- Kinshasa (Congo) --- Kinshasa, Zaire --- Kinshasha (Congo) --- Kinshasa (Zaire) --- Ville de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Ville-Province de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Leopoldville (Congo) --- Politics and government. --- Religious life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- Cinéma en anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Anthropologie religieuse --- Religious life and customs --- Vie religieuse --- Conditions sociales --- Politique et gouvernement --- Anthropology of Religion, Media Studies, Anthropology (General), Gender Studies and Sexuality. --- ethnography --- social dynamics in an evangelizing activity group --- moral movements --- confession --- Christianity --- Christian popular culture --- matrimony --- urban sexuality --- sex --- religion and media --- divine afflatus