‘My Life is Like a Movie’: Making a Fiction Film as a Route to Knowledge Production on Gang Political Performances in Goma, DR Congo

‘My life is like a movie’ is a sentence that often surfaced during my fieldwork on gangs engaged in everyday policing in the city of Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo); referring to the martial arts and action movies they like to watch. For this article, I will reflect on how during my ethnographic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maarten Hendriks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Extreme Anthropology Research Network 2019-06-01
Series:Journal of Extreme Anthropology
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Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/JEA/article/view/6695