Dear all,
At the African Studies Association UK conference in Cardiff in September this year, we are organizing a thematic stream on gender and sexuality, with panels and book launches, see:
http://www.asauk.net/asauk-2020/thematic-streams-asauk2020/experimenting-sex-exploring-gender-revolutions-and-contestations/
If this speaks to you and your work, please consider submitting a paper to our panel:
Sexual Revolutions and Gender Experiments in Postcolonial Africa
Conveners: Thomas Hendriks (University of Oxford) and Rachel Spronk (University of Amsterdam)
In his provocative 2006 piece “Le potentat sexuel,” published in the Cameroonian newspaper Le Messager, Achille Mbembe perceived a “silent” and “to a great extent undocumented” “sexual revolution” in postcolonial Africa since the end of the last century. In a forthcoming paper, anthropologist Basile Ndjio even sees a “new African” emerging from alternative forms of sexuality, in opposition to heteronormative invocations of the Muntu as a “postcolonial libidinal African straight.” For this panel, we invite papers that investigate these observations. What kind of sexual revolutions – silent, undocumented or otherwise – take place on the continent? How do these produce new sexualities and erotic subjectivities? How do such alternative practices and identifications challenge dominant notions of sex and gender? How do such experiments speak to broader societal shifts? How do they resist or transform globalizing labels and concepts – such as LGBT+, gay, trans, queer, homosexual or MSM / WSW? And what futures do they open up? This panel brings together papers that address new experiments with and explorations of sex and gender in different articulations of Africa and the global.
http://www.asauk.net/asauk-2020/call-for-papers-and-panels/
Best wishes,
Rachel Spronk & Thomas Hendriks
(soon, with Indiana University Press:)
[Readings in Sexualities from Africa]
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=1037_6040_9054&products_id=810036
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Dr. Thomas Hendriks
Departmental Lecturer
Evans-Pritchard Fellow in African Anthropology
St Anne's College
African Studies Centre / University of Oxford
13 Bevington Road; Oxford OX2 6NB / Phone: +32 485 762 869
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