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Researcher

Sofie Boonen

Awards & Distinctions

14 Results

2019

A city constructed by 'people from elsewhere' : urban developments in Elisabethville, Belgian Congo (currently Lubumbashi, RDC)

Editorial material

Une ville construite par des ‘gens d’ailleurs’ : développements urbains à Elisabethville, Congo belge (actuellement Lubumbashi, DRC)

Sofie BoonenJohan LagaeBaz LecocqJacob Sabakinu Kivilu

2018

Making and shaping of a divided city : notes on the construction of Lubumbashi's first planned 'native town', the Commune Kamalondo, 1919-1929

Johan LagaeSofie Boonen

Bookchapter in Sammy Baloji : a blueprint for toads and snakes

2017

Navigating “off-radar”: the heritage of liminal spaces in the city center of colonial/postcolonial Lubumbashi, DR Congo’

Johan LagaeSofie BoonenSam Lanckriet

Bookchapter in Things don’t really exist until you give them a name : unpacking urban heritage

2016

M(g)r. De Hemptinne, I presume? Transforming local memory through toponymy in colonial/post-colonial Lubumbashi, DR Congo

Johan LagaeSofie BoonenDonatien Dia Mwembu Dibwe

Bookchapter in Place names in Africa : colonial urban legacies, entangled histories

2015

A city constructed by 'des gens d’ailleurs': urban development and migration policies in colonial Lubumbashi, 1910-1930

Sofie BoonenJohan Lagae

A2 Journal Article in COMPARATIV : ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GLOBALGESCHICHTE UND VERGLEICHENDE GESELLSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG

Attribuer, s'approprier et construire l'espace urbain colonial

A2 Journal Article in ABE JOURNAL

Scenes from a changing colonial 'Far West': picturing the early urban landscape and colonial society of cosmopolitan Lubumbashi, 1910-1931

Sofie BoonenJohan Lagae

A2 Journal Article in STICHPROBEN

2013

Décoloniser l’espace (péri)urbain en République Démocratique du Congo: le cas de Lubumbashi

Johan LagaeSofie Boonen

Fissures dans le 'cordon sanitaire': architecture hospitalière et ségrégation urbaine à Lubumbashi, 1920-1960

Johan LagaeSofie BoonenMaarten Liefooghe

2012

Des pierres qui (nous) parlent

Johan LagaeSofie Boonen

Bookchapter in Rencontres Picha : biennale de Lubumbashi du 13 au 17 octobre 2010

2010

Decolonizing spaces: a (visual) essay on strategies of appropriation, transformation and negotiation of the colonial built environment in postcolonial Congo

Johan LagaeLuce BeeckmansSofie Boonen

A2 Journal Article in HAGAR : STUDIES IN CULTURE, POLITY AND IDENTITIES

Un regard africain sur une ville colonial belge: architecture et urbanisme dans le 'Vocabulaire de ville de Elisabethville' d’André Yav

Johan LagaeSofie Boonen

Bookchapter in Lubumbashi 1910-1920 : mémoire d’une ville industrielle

2009

Rethinking the colonial city : spatialized histories of urban and racial segregation in colonial Kinshasa and Lubumbashi

Luce BeeckmansSofie BoonenJohan Lagae