Bob W. White is an full professor of

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at the University of Montreal,

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. He is an expert in the

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's Intercultural Cities program and the director and founder of the Laboratory for Research on Intercultural Relations (LABRRI) at the University of Montreal. His research interests include intercultural communication, dynamics, and cities; popular culture; French-speaking Africa, particularly the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

;

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; ethnographic fieldwork;

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; systems theory; and pluralism. He is also coordinator of the Network of Municipalities in Immigration and Intercultural Relations of Quebec (RÉMIRI) and is part of a research network between the University of Montreal, the

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, and the

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. White received his BA in anthropology and international studies from the

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in 1988; his MA from

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in 1993; and his PhD in anthropology from McGill in 1998. His PhD dissertation was titled: " Modernity's Spiral: Popular Culture, Mastery and the Politics of Dance Music in Congo-Kinshasa." Following this, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the

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. On January 1, 2001, he became an assistant professor at the

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. He has been a visiting professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in

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, the International Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences in

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, and

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. White was awarded the Society for Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology's

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Prize (2009) and the

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' Joel Gregory Prize (2010) for his book ''Rumba Rules''. The book was also a finalist for the African Studies Association's Herskovits Prize.

Selected bibliography

* 1996: "Talk About School: Education and the Colonial Project in French and British Africa," ''Comparative Education'', * 1999: "Modernity's Trickster: 'Dipping' and 'Throwing' in Congolese Popular Dance Music," ''Research in African Literatures''. * 2000: "Soukouss or Sell-Out? Congolese Popular Dance Music on the World Market" in ''Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives'',

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. * 2008: ''Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire,''

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. * 2014: ''L'interculturel au Québec: rencontres historiques et enjeux politiques'', University of Montreal Press. With Lomomba Emongo. * 2014: ''Musique populaire et société à Kinshasa. Une ethnographie de l’écoute,'' L'Harmattan. With Lye M. Yoka. * 2017: ''Intercultural Cities: Policy and Practice for a New Era'',

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. . * 2018: "Valeurs familiales et la méthode Sabido en République démocratique du Congo," in ''Nouvelles dynamiques familiales en Afrique'', University of Quebec Press. With Lino Pungi and Serge Makobo. * 2021: "An Intercultural Framework for Theory and Practice in Third Place Libraries", ''Public Library Quarterly''. With Marie D. Martel. * 2022: "Methods for the Study of Everyday Cohabitation," ''Journal of Intercultural Studies''. With Annick Germain.

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References

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