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Of Masks and Masculinities in Africa
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2023
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Unit | Institut für Ethnologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany | Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society, University of Groningen, The Netherlands | Department of History, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA | Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA | Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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.
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