"Poverty" and the Politics of Syncopation Urban Examples from Kinshasa (DR Congo)
"Poverty" and the Politics of Syncopation Urban Examples from Kinshasa (DR Congo)
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DOI：
10.1086/682392
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
De Boeck, Filip
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作者：
De Boeck, Filip
本文通过对金沙萨市一座特定建筑的民族志“城市针灸”，探讨了贫困如何影响城市中新兴的公众。贫困以特定的方式使城市生活“有节奏”，而这些节奏可能最好从切分和暂停的政治角度来理解，通过这种政治，城市公众不断分裂和重新组合。因此，打断城市日常生活的暂停和错过的节拍通常会产生暴力，封闭和孤立，但同时它们也产生了意想不到的口音，形成了对非节拍轨道的“其他东西”的开放，从而暗示了（总是脆弱的，同样有问题的）替代集体行动的可能性和临时创建新的群体，公众和公共空间。
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 daily living often produce violence, closure, and isolation, but simultaneously they also generate unexpected accents that form openings into the "something else" of the offbeat track, thereby hinting at the (always vulnerable and equally problematic) possibility of alternative collective action and the ad hoc creation of new groups, publics, and public spaces.