GIGA Journal Family | 17/12/2023

New Africa Spectrum 3/2023

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.


  • Africa Spectrum Vol. 58, No. 3 (2023)

    Special Issue: Of Masks and Masculinities in Africa Guest Editor: Bruce Whitehouse

    Introduction

    • Jesper Bjarnesen, Jack Boulton, Uroš Kovač, Ndubueze Mbah, Bruce Whitehouse, Robert Wyrod: Of Masks and Masculinities in Africa

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    Research Articles

    • Uroš Kovač, Dorothea E. Schulz: Masculinity, Morality, and the State in Northern Kenya: The Case of Baringo County's Il Chamus

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    • Jack Boulton: Beyond Toxic Masculinity: Reading and Writing Men in Post-Apartheid Namibia

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    • Jesper Bjarnesen: Back in Youth: Social Unbecoming in the Study of West African Masculinities

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    • Ndubueze L. Mbah: Afropolitan Masculinity: Forgeries of Wife-Owning Husbands in West Africa, 1850s–1950s

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    • Bruce Whitehouse: Patriarchal Anxieties and Masculine Sexual Privilege in Contemporary Urban Mali

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