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  • Queer Mozambique

    From the Mines to the Manas

    by Francisco P V Miguel, Marc Epprecht, Danilo da Silva, Agnaldo Bata, Nicola Biasio, Maria Judite Chipenembe, Gustavo Gomes da Costa, Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, Daria Trentini, Matthew Waites, Agostão José Zitha ...
    Postcolonial Mozambique decriminalized homosexual acts in 2015. This legal reform was not a response to litigation or public pressure, but came from a parliamentary initiative and lobbying by a few organizations. Subsequent public opinion polls show that Mozambique is an outlier in Africa in its relatively tolerant behaviors and attitudes toward non-heterosexual relationships.What are the cultural ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Heterosexual Africa?

    The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS

    by Marc Epprecht ...
    Series series New African Histories
    Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht’s previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in southern Africa), to explore the historical processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for Africa was constructed—by anthropologists, ethnopsychologists, colonial officials, African elites, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa

    Rethinking Homophobia and Forging Resistance

    by Marc Epprecht ...
    Series series African Arguments
    The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable coverage in the popular media in recent years. Gay-bashing by political and religious figures in Zimbabwe and Gambia; draconian new laws against lesbians and gays and their supporters in Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda; and the imprisonment and extortion of gay men in Senegal ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Sexual Diversity in Africa

    Politics, Theory, and Citizenship

    by S.N. Nyeck, Marc Epprecht ...
    How does one address homophobia without threatening majority rule democracy and freedoms of speech and faith? How does one "Africanize" sexuality research, empirically and theoretically, in an environment that is not necessarily welcoming to African scholars?In Sexual Diversity in Africa, contributors critically engage with current debates about sexuality and gender identity, as well as with ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Hungochani, Second Edition

    The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa

    by Marc Epprecht ...
    In the tapestry of global queer cultures Africa has long been neglected or stereotyped. In Hungochani, Marc Epprecht seeks to change these limited views by tracing Southern Africa's history and traditions of homosexuality, modern gay and lesbian identities, and the vibrant gay rights movement that has emerged since the 1980s. Epprecht explores the diverse ways African cultures traditionally ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Welcome to Greater Edendale

    Histories of Environment, Health, and Gender in an African City

    by Marc Epprecht ...
    Series Book 6 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
    In the coming decades, the bulk of Africa's anticipated urban population growth will take place in smaller cities. Failure to manage environmental and public health problems in one such aspiring city, Edendale, has fostered severe pollution, seemingly intractable poverty, and gender inequalities that directly fuel one of the worst HIV/AIDS pandemics in the world.A nuanced and timely presentation ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Boy-Wives and Female Husbands

    Studies in African Homosexualities

    Edited by Stephen O. Murray, Will Roscoe ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Among the many myths created about Africa, the claim that homosexuality and gender diversity are absent or incidental is one of the oldest and most enduring. Historians, anthropologists, and many contemporary Africans alike have denied or overlooked African same-sex patterns or claimed that such patterns were introduced by Europeans or Arabs. In fact, same-sex love and nonbinary genders were and ... Read more

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  • Africa

    The Politics of Suffering and Smiling

    by Patrick Chabal ...
    Series series World Political Theories
    The question usually asked about Africa is: 'why is it going wrong?' Is the continent still suffering from the ravages of colonialism? Or is it the victim of postcolonial economic exploitation, poor governance and lack of aid? Whatever the answer, increasingly the result is poverty and violence.In Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling Patrick Chabal approaches this question differently by ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Human Rights and African Airwaves

    Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio

    by Harri Englund ...
    Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi's public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligation and mutual dependence, the program expresses, in popular idioms and local narrative forms, grievances and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Idea of Development in Africa

    A History

    by Corrie Decker, Elisabeth McMahon ...
    Series series New Approaches to African History
    The Idea of Development in Africa challenges prevailing international development discourses about the continent, by tracing the history of ideas, practices, and 'problems' of development used in Africa. In doing so, it offers an innovative approach to examining the history and culture of development through the lens of the development episteme, which has been foundational to the 'idea of Africa' ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Runaway World

    by Professor Anthony Giddens ...
    'Before the current global era it is impossible to imagine that comparable events [like September 11] could have occurred, reflecting as they do our new-found interdependence. The rise of global terrorism, like world-wide networks involving in money-laundering, drug-running and other forums of organised crime, are all parts of the dark side of globalisation.' From the new Preface This book is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Multicultiphobia

    by Phil Ryan ...
    Official multiculturalism, established as Canadian government policy in 1971, has drawn criticism from many scholars and journalists who view it as a potential threat to a strong, unified Canadian society. In this timely and original book, Phil Ryan examines the emergence and influence of these criticisms, which continue to provoke an anxiety he calls "multicultiphobia." Although Ryan argues that ... Read more

    $36.99 USD