Becoming Men: Performing responsible masculinities in contemporary urban Africa

Projektinformationen

Becoming Men

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 647314

DOI 10.3030/647314

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 27 August 2015

Startdatum 1 September 2015

Enddatum 28 Februar 2021

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Gesamtkosten € 1 999 830,00

EU-Beitrag € 1 999 830,00

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

Ziel

This anthropological study examines the reconfiguration of masculinities in urban Africa over the last 30 years. Focusing on how practices and discourses of empowerment and equality shape male subjectivities, this study builds upon a significant body of nuanced research on masculinities in Africa. Since the mid-1980s academic and public discourses have depicted African masculinity as both precarious and predatory. Economic insecurity, urbanization, shifting gender norms, and growing gender parity have accompanied claims that African masculinity is ‘in crisis’. More recently, new stories of urban men embracing responsible fatherhood, condemning intimate partner violence, and demanding homosexual rights have emerged as exemplars of progressive possibility. To disentangle these seemingly competing claims about African masculinities and shed light on the scientific, political, and economic projects that shape them, this research theorises that the discourses and practices that pathologise and politicise masculinity are simultaneously performing and producing gendered selves on multiple scales in the name of gender equality. Recently, ‘male involvement’ has become a rallying cry throughout the vast global development assemblage, around which governments, NGOs, research networks, activists, and local communities fight gender inequality to promote health, economic development, and human rights. In this research, a range of male-involvement initiatives provides a lens through which to study how masculinities are diversely imagined, (re)configured, and performed through men’s engagements with this assemblage, in both its local and global manifestations. Multi-sited ethnographic research will focus on six cities where the PI has active research ties: Nairobi and Kisumu, Kenya; Johannesburg and Durban, South Africa; and Dar es Salaam and Mwanza, Tanzania.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• social sciences › political sciences › political policies › civil society › nongovernmental organizations
• social sciences › sociology › social issues › social inequalities › gender inequality
• social sciences › sociology › gender studies › gender equality
• social sciences › sociology › anthropology › social anthropology
• social sciences › law › human rights › human rights violations › sexual violence

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme

Thema/Themen

• ERC-CoG-2014 - ERC Consolidator Grant

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

ERC-2014-CoG

Finanzierungsplan

ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant

Gastgebende Einrichtung

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 999 830,00
• Adresse: SPUI 21 ; 1012WX Amsterdam ; Niederlande
• Region: West-Nederland › Noord-Holland › Groot-Amsterdam
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 999 830,00

Begünstigte (1)

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

Niederlande

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 999 830,00
• Adresse: SPUI 21 ; 1012WX Amsterdam
• Region: West-Nederland › Noord-Holland › Groot-Amsterdam
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 999 830,00