Reprinting the past

Kalb, Martin

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“…The work of James Frazer (1910) has come under particular scrutiny as a classic example of “armchair anthropology”, i.e., Frazer was writing from Europe and basing his ethnographies on accounts provided by missionaries and other “informed individuals”, without actually experiencing the colony for himself or conducting any interviews with local people (Fraser, 1990, see also Mutambo, 2015). As Renzo Baas (2018) describes, the colony and its inhabitants were constructed through a series of tropes which presented its landscape as “empty” and its inhabitants as “barbaric” and “savage”, and therefore in need of Western intervention: an image which continues to be revitalised via German publishing in Namibia (Kalb, 2018; see also van der Hoog, 2022). The trope of “African violence”, and particularly the politicised arguments concerning the Mfecane, has also been used as justification for Apartheid (Epprecht, 1994).…”

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

Boulton

2023

Africa Spectrum

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Over the past few years, the term ‘toxic masculinity’ has entered public debate in Namibia as a way to describe apparently problematic forms of masculine behaviour, particularly in the light of high levels of gender-based violence. Originating in Western discourse, the term itself is difficult as it can stifle meaningful and transformative conversations concerning men. Describing ‘toxic masculinity’ as a trope, and indicating that tropes of violence have been used and politicised before, this article proposes a different way of reading men: via the mask. To do this, the ‘tropological place’ is introduced as a space of intimacy and trust, in which the kinds of masks that men wear become visible. Although the introduction of ‘toxic masculinity’ into debates around masculinities in Namibia should be acknowledged as an important starting point for conversations, this article urges researchers to think beyond it, encouraging more lateral relations with those that we research.

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

Boulton

2023

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