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  1. 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.

    Article • African Studies Review, August 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  2. SUTURING THE (W)HOLE:

    Article • June 2022, JSTOR

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  3. CityLabs: Making Cities, Making Futures

    Article • February 2022, Brill

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  4. Congoville

    Article • October 2021, Leuven University Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  5. Death and the city

    Article • June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  6. “Masterless Men”

    Article • Current Anthropology, April 2021, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  7. Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  8. The City Reader

    Article • May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  9. “Spectral Kinshasa: Building the City through an Architecture of Words”

    Article • May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  10. Urban expansion, the politics of land, and occupation as infrastructure in Kinshasa

    Article • Land Use Policy, April 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  11. URBAN NOW: CITY LIFE IN CONGO

    Article • Afrika Focus, February 2019, Brill

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  12. Positing the Polis: Topography as a Way to De-centre Urban Thinking

    Article • Urbanisation, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  13. Filip De Boeck and Sammy Baloji, Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds, Autograph ABP, London, 2016, 330 pages, hardback, ISBN 9781899282197, £30.00.

    Article • Object, September 2017, UCL Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  14. Forum: resilience & design

    Article • Resilience, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  15. The Impossible is not Congolese: City Life in the DRC

    Article • January 2017, De Gruyter

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  16. “Poverty” and the Politics of Syncopation

    Article • Current Anthropology, October 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  17. “Spectral Kinshasa: Building the City through an Architecture of Words”

    Article • July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  18. “Divining” the city: rhythm, amalgamation and knotting as forms of “urbanity”

    Article • Social Dynamics, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  19. Preface

    Article • Hydrobiologia, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniel Gerdeaux, Professor Filip De Boeck

  20. The Sacred and the City: Modernity, Religion, and the Urban Form in Central Africa

    Article • January 2014, Wiley

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  21. DE BOECK (Filip) & PLISSART (Marie-Françoise), Kinshasa. Tales of the Invisible City. Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2014, 285 p. – ISBN 978-9-0586-7967-3

    Article • Études littéraires africaines, January 2014, Consortium Erudit

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  22. INHABITING OCULAR GROUND: Kinshasa's Future in the Light of Congo's Spectral Urban Politics

    Article • Cultural Anthropology, April 2011, Wiley

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  23. Nicolas Argenti, The Intestines of the State: youth, violence and belated histories in the Cameroon Grassfields. Chicago IL: Chicago University Press (pb $28 – 978 0 22602 612 1). 2007, 352 pp.

    Article • Africa, November 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  24. Alcinda Honwana and Filip de Boeck (Eds), Makers and Breakers: children and youth in postcolonial Africa.Oxford: James Currey (pb £16.95 – 978 0 8525 5434 0). 2005, 320 pp.

    Article • Africa, August 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  25. Oog voor het onzichtbare.

    Article • AGORA Magazine, December 2008, Ghent University

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  26. Review Symposium

    Article • African Studies Review, December 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  27. Heterotopia and the City

    Article • May 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  28. ‘Dead society’ in a ‘cemetery city’: The transformation of burial rites in Kinshasa

    Article • May 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  29. Autour d'un livre

    Article • Politique africaine, January 2008, CAIRN

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  30. Makers and Breakers: children and youth in postcolonial Africa edited by A. Honwana and F. De Boeck Oxford: James Currey; Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press; Dakar: Codesria, 2005. Pp. 244. £16.95 (pbk.).

    Article • The Journal of Modern African Studies, November 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  31. Alcinda Honwana and Filip De Boeck, eds. Makers and Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. xii + 244 pp. Photographs. References. Index. $29.95. Paper.

    Article • African Studies Review, April 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  32. La ville de Kinshasa, une architecture du verbe

    Article • Esprit, January 2006, CAIRN

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  33. The Apocalyptic Interlude: Revealing Death in Kinshasa

    Article • African Studies Review, September 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  34. Stad zonder stedenbouw

    Article • Ethische Perspectieven, June 2005, Peeters Publishers

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  35. 3. La frontière diamantifère angolaise et son héros mutant

    Article • January 2004, CAIRN

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  36. Garimpeiroworlds: digging, dying & ‘hunting’ for diamonds in Angola

    Article • Review of African Political Economy, December 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  37. Borderland Breccia: The Mutant Hero in the Historical Imagination of a Central-African Diamond Frontier

    Article • Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, January 2000, Project Muse

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  38. Faire et défaire la société : enfants, jeunes et politique en Afrique

    Article • Politique africaine, January 2000, CAIRN

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  39. Le « deuxième monde » et les « enfants-sorciers » en république démocratique du Congo

    Article • Politique africaine, January 2000, CAIRN

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  40. Domesticating Diamonds and Dollars: Identity, Expenditure and Sharing in Southwestern Zaire (1984-1997)

    Article • Development and Change, October 1998, Wiley

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  41. Democracy and the State-Society Paradigm

    Article • The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, January 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  42. of trees and kings: politics and metaphor among the Aluund of Southwestern Zaire

    Article • American Ethnologist, August 1994, Wiley

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  43. 'When Hunger Goes Around the Land': Hunger and Food Among the Aluund of Zaire

    Article • Man, June 1994, JSTOR

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  44. Ndembu, Luunda and Yaka Divination Compared: From Representation and Social Engineering to Embodiment and Worldmaking

    Article • Journal of Religion in Africa, May 1994, JSTOR

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  45. Ndembu, Luunda and Yaka Divination Compared: From Representation and Social Engineering To Embodiment and Worldmaking

    Article • Journal of Religion in Africa, January 1994, Brill

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  46. African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire

    Article • Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, January 1994, JSTOR

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  47. On van der Geest and Whyte's Article "The Charm of Medicines: Metaphors and Metonyms"

    Article • Medical Anthropology Quarterly, June 1991, Wiley

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  48. Therapeutic efficacy and consensus among the Aluund of south-western Zaire

    Article • Africa, April 1991, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  49. On bushbucks without horns : male and female initiation among the Aluund of Southwest Zaïre

    Article • Journal de la Société des Africanistes, January 1991, PERSEE Program

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  50. : Causes, Origines et Agents de la Maladie chez les Peuples sans Ecriture . Andras Zempleni.

    Article • Medical Anthropology Quarterly, March 1989, Wiley

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  51. Qui a obstrué la cascade? Analyse sémantique du rituel de la circoncision chez les Komo du Zaire

    Article • Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, January 1987, JSTOR

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  52. Dreams, Magic, and Mirrors

    Article • Duke University Press

    Professor Filip De Boeck

  53. Kinshasa and its (Un)Certainties : The Polis and the Sacred

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Professor Filip De Boeck