Dear BSA Gender Study Group Members
Please find attached details of my book just published 'Masculinities, Militarisation
and the End Conscription Campaign: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa'
(Manchester University Press)
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719083204
(apologies for cross posting):
Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign explores the
gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa’s militarisation, analysing
the defiance of compulsory military service by individual white men and the
anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the End Conscription
Campaign (ECC). The ECC was the most significant white anti-apartheid
social movement in South Africa. Military conscription and objection to it are
conceptualised as gendered acts of citizenship and premised on and constitutive
of masculinities.
Analysing the interconnections between militarisation, sexuality, race,
homophobia and political authoritarianism, Conway draws upon a range of
materials and disciplines to produce this socio-political study. Sources include
interviews with white men who objected to military service in the South African
Defence Force (SADF), archival material including military intelligence surveillance
of the ECC, ECC campaigning material, press reports and pro-state propaganda.
The analysis is informed by perspectives in sociology, international relations,
history and from analysis of contemporary militarised societies such as Israel and
Turkey.
Dr Daniel Conway
Lecturer in Politics
Department of Politics, History and International Relations (PHIR)
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
Tel: +44(0)1509 223089
Fax: +44(0)1509 223917
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eu/people/academics/Conway-Daniel.html
'Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa' (Manchester University Press)
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719083204
British Academy Project: 'The British in South Africa: Continuity or Change?'
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eu/research/Projects/BSA/BritishInSouthAfrica.html
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