Filip de Boeck

Filip De Boeck is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and currently a Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego. Since 1987, he has conducted extensive research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). His current theoretical interests include processes of state collapse and local subjectivities of crisis, postcolonial memory processes, and youth and the politics of culture in Central Africa.... De Boeck is co-editing (with Alcinda Honwana, Social Science Research Council, New York) a volume on children and youth as emerging categories in postcolonial Africa, and is working in collaboration with photographer Marie-Francoise Plissart on a book project dealing with the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.