Manhood, Morality and The Transformation of Angolan Society

Spall, John

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“…Although some male students and male adults also fainted, boys were harder to ‘see’ as victims: in a context where gender roles have been fundamentally shaped by war (Spall 2020), men were portrayed as naturally being able to resist and overcome any ‘suggestion’ of weakness (as per the school director's statement). Girls, by contrast, are lumped together as a seemingly homogeneous, vulnerable group, whose agency is only evident when stereotyped as manipulators, schemers, and seducers of (older) men.…”

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Fear and fainting in Luanda: paranoid politics and the problem of interpretative authority in Angola

Schubert¹

2022

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article unpacks the events and reactions surrounding a mysterious ‘fainting wave’ that swept through Angolan middle and high schools from early 2011 on. By attending to the historicity and materiality of the fainting wave, the article investigates why the strong conviction took root of a dark political intentionality behind this inexplicable phenomenon, and why this conspiratorial interpretation prevailed over alternative explanations of a more psychological or spiritual bent. Through this, the article contributes to disaggregating the seemingly monolithic, neo‐authoritarian Angolan state. More importantly, it points to the limitations of analyses pivoting on an idea of opposing rationalities, while at the same time demonstrating how historically attuned, deep ethnography can help us overcome the limits of more ‘scientistic’ psychological explanations.

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Section: A Gendered Gas?mentioning

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Fear and fainting in Luanda: paranoid politics and the problem of interpretative authority in Angola

Schubert¹

2022

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Manhood, Morality and The Transformation of Angolan Society

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Fear and fainting in Luanda: paranoid politics and the problem of interpretative authority in Angola

Fear and fainting in Luanda: paranoid politics and the problem of interpretative authority in Angola

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