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Of Masks and Masculinities in Africa

Published:2023-12 Issue:3 Volume:58 Page:191-200
ISSN:0002-0397
Container-title:Africa Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Africa Spectrum

Author:

Bjarnesen Jesper¹,Boulton Jack²,Kovač Uroš³,Mbah Ndubueze⁴^ORCID,Whitehouse Bruce⁵,Wyrod Robert⁶

Affiliation:

1. Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden

2. Institut für Ethnologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

3. Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

4. Department of History, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA

5. Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

6. Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Abstract

Contemporary forms of precarity, migration, connectivity, and sociality have transformed what it means to be a man in many African communities. Responding with agency and creativity to various incentives and constraints, Africans have adapted practices pertaining to labour, marriage, and sexuality to the exigencies of modern life amid the impacts of European colonialism, rapid urban growth, economic hardship, and political conflict. Drawing upon ethnographic and historical research to study settings in East, West, and Southern Africa, the articles in this special issue review the social changes that have taken place regarding men's roles and assess prospects for the emergence of counter-hegemonic masculinities.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Political Science and International Relations,Sociology and Political Science,Development,Cultural Studies

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00020397231217520

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