In dialogue with other interpretations of African mimesis, I read this latest fashion not as a mere emulation of Western otherness i. Capturing the gay network s : a queer ontography of connection in urban Congo more. But instead of looking at these topics from the Fieldwork in Kinshasa and Kisangani reveals the fundamental importance of networks and networking in everyday fioto life. Building a body in the new scramble for Africa: labour and masculinities at the Congolese rainforest frontier more. Interracial intimacies in the Congolese rainforest: ethical reflections from the field more.
Revisiting the porno-tropics: construction of masculinities at the interracial contact zone more. Conference panels.
Space, power and extraction in rural Congo more. Since the beginning of the colonial expansion in Central Africa, the Congo has attracted countless ventures, bent on turning its seemingly endless natural resources into profit opportunities. For more than a century, its territory has For more than a century, its territory has been covered by numerous enclaves, where a plurality of public and private agents, foreign and Congolese alike, compete and collaborate for the extraction and production of primary goods for export markets.
This transdisciplinary panel aims at investigating inner tensions in the deployment of capitalism in past and present rural Congo, both within and beyond the porous boundaries of the concessions, mines and stations where its actors and agents live d and work ed. Each paper is articulated around a different enclave and a different natural resource — timber, copper, diamonds, palm oil, elephants, biodiversity — yet all are bound by similar lines of enquiry. They focus on the disjuncture between ambitions and effective results, highlighting the different limitations that competing agendas, local communities and an uncontrolled nature can pose to economic prospects.
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They underline the key importance of affects, emotions, hopes and anxieties in the effective enforcement of extraction or conservation. In an effort to move beyond epistemological boundaries that have long separated research on pre and post-independence Congo, participants also articulate present situations within the long-term legacies of colonialism, pushing against the disciplinary divide between history and anthropology. Power and transgression: queering notions of sexuality and dissidence more.
Over the last decade, scholars have addressed issues of sexual and gender dissidence in diverse African realities. Highlighting the ambiguities and multiplicities of erotic practices and vernacular conceptualizations of desire, a growing Such reappraisals not only show how sexual regimes come in many forms but also how they operate through failures and contradictions that, to a certain extent, undermine hegemonic heteronormativity.
They reveal the existence of manifold queer possibilities and affordances within the supposed norm that often remain unspoken in monolithic accounts of sexuality. This panel therefore questions the strict separation between a hetero norm and an oppositional logic of dissidence in contemporary African popular cultures and postcolonial imaginations.
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Dissident genders and sexualities: comparative and theoretical perspectives from Africa more. Over the last decades, an increasing number of ethnographies and histories have emphasized the fundamental fluidity of gender and sexuality in Africa. At the same time, political analyses describe new realities of gendered violence and Time has come to bring these scattered studies together for comparative analysis and critical theory-building. African Studies , Anthropology , and Gender and Sexuality.
These and other subjects can be developed in and through case studies from the wider social and human sciences on both the uses and representations of flowers in Africa today but also in the past e. African Studies and Anthropology. Queer provocations, nightlife and popular culture in Kinshasa more. Provocatively de-coding music, video clips, urban paintings and popular journalism with my interlocutors, my research brings to the fore the queer failures and instabilities of their ostensibly moral messages.
Queering ambiance in urban Congo: spatial practices and imaginaries of fioto seduction more. The queer side of kinship: witchcraft, ambiance and same-sex desire in urban Congo more. Louis, Bruxelles Event Date: Mar 26, The Bollekesfeest is a showcase for such local products as Bolleke, an amber beer from the De Koninck Brewery. The Mokatine sweets made by Confiserie Roodthooft , Elixir D'Anvers, a locally made liquor, locally roasted coffee from Koffie Verheyen, sugar from Candico, Poolster pickled herring and Equinox horse meat, are other examples of local specialities.
One of the most known products of the city are its biscuits, the Antwerpse Handjes , literally "Antwerp Hands". Usually made from a short pastry with almonds or milk chocolate, they symbolize the Antwerp trademark and folklore. The local products are represented by a non-profit organization, Streekproducten Provincie Antwerpen vzw. They provide cafeterias, cultural and social activities as well as religious services. The band dEUS was formed in in Antwerp. Their musical influences range from folk and punk to jazz and progressive rock.
Cultuurmarkt van Vlaanderen is a musical festival and a touristic attraction that takes place annually on the final Sunday of August in the city center of Antwerp. Where international and local musicians and actors, present their stage and street performances. Linkerwoofer is a pop - rock music festival located at the left bank of the Scheldt. This music festival starts in August and mostly local Belgian musicians play and perform in this event. Other popular festivals Fire Is Gold , and focuses more on urban music, and Summerfestival.
Antwerp held the Summer Olympics , which were the first games after the First World War and also the only ones to be held in Belgium. The road cycling events took place in the streets of the city. Royal Antwerp F. They played at the Olympisch Stadion , the main venue of the Olympics. For the year , Antwerp was awarded the title of European Capital of Sport.
Antwerp hosted the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Antwerp hosted the start of stage 3 of the Tour de France on 6 July Antwerp has a university and several colleges. Their roots go back to The University has approximately 23, registered students, making it the third-largest university in Flanders, as well as 1, foreign students. It has 7 faculties, spread over four campus locations in the city centre and in the south of the city.
Artesis University College has about 8, students and 1, staff, and Charlemagne University College has about 10, students and 1, staff. Plantin University College has approximately 3, students. The following places are twinned with or sister cities to Antwerp:. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Municipality in Flemish Community, Belgium. This article is about the Flemish city. For the province, see Antwerp province.
For other uses, see Antwerp disambiguation. For the island off the Antarctic coast, see Anvers Island. Coat of arms. Location in Belgium Antwerp municipality in the province of Antwerp. N-VA sp. See also: Timeline of Antwerp. Main article: Districts of Antwerp. Main article: Fortifications of Antwerp. Main article: Jewish Community of Antwerp.
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