Themed issue: Masculinities in Africa beyond Crisis: Complexity, Fluidity, and Intersectionality

Dear Colleagues

 

We are excited to let you know that the themed issue entitled ‘Masculinities in Africa beyond Crisis: Complexity, Fluidity, and Intersectionality’ has just been published in Gender, Place & Culture.

 

It entails the following articles:

 

Introductory article by Carole Ammann & Sandra Staudacher: Masculinities in Africa beyond crisis: complexity, fluidity, and intersectionality

Kopano Ratele: An invitation to decoloniality in work on (African) men and masculinities

Kristen E. McLean: ‘Post-crisis masculinities’ in Sierra Leone: revisiting masculinity theory

Katharina Gartner: Shiny shabomen. Young instrumental musicians in Accra, and performances of masculinities in popular music

Sherianne Kramer & Brett Bowman: The making of male victimhood in South African Female-perpetrated Sexual Abuse

Jasmine Shio & Eileen Moyer: Navigating norms of masculinity: Tactical gender performances among gay men in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Susanne U. Schultz: ‘It’s not easy’. Everyday suffering, hard work and courage. Navigating masculinities post deportation in Mali

Linda Musariri & Eileen Moyer: A black man is a cornered man: migration, precarity and masculinities in Johannesburg

 

The whole themed issue can be accessed here.

 

 

We hope you enjoy reading it!

 

Warm regards,

 

Carole Ammann (University of Amsterdam) & Sandra Staudacher (University of Basel)

Categories: Journal, Announcement

Keywords: Gender / Sexuality Studies, Africa, masculinity studies, Men and Masculinities, Social Anthropology, medical anthropology, African Studies