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Record Nr.

UNINA9910730701003321

Titolo

Invisibility in African displacements : from structural marginalization to strategies of avoidance / / edited by Jesper Bjarnesen and Simon Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2020

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-78699-916-1

1-350-22552-5

1-78699-918-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Collana

Africa now

Disciplina

304.86

Soggetti

African diaspora

Marginality, Social - Africa

Marginality, Social - Europe

Gender studies: men

Africa Emigration and immigration

Europe Emigration and immigration

Africa Emigration and immigration Government policy

Europe Emigration and immigration Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, The Nordic Africa Institute."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. There's No Place Like Home -- 2. Settler Colonialism, Empire, Borders -- 3. Masculinity, Place, Intersectionality -- 4. Kansas, Bled: Land, History, Violence -- 5. Frontier, Family, Nation -- 6. Capitalism, Work, Respect -- 7. Looking Back, Going Forward.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage. Through a fascinating combination of ethnographic research across seven US states and the application of postcolonial, anti-racist, feminist and poststructuralist theories, Land, God, and Guns reveals how time-honoured rites of passage associated with taken-for-granted notions of manhood in the American Heartland are constitutive of a constellation of colonial



worldviews, capitalist logics, gender essentialisms, ethnocentric religious beliefs, jingoistic populism, racial animus, and embodied violence. A constellation that, within the US, upholds a heteropatriarchal and racist ordering of life that both privileges and ultimately damages its main proliferators ? white settler men. This is a detailed work that at once unravels rural white settler masculinity and the US state at their roots, whilst demonstrating why any analysis of the cultural production and social practice of masculinity in the United States must take into account the country's historical trajectories of imperialism, land dispossession, nation-state building, enslavement, extractive accumulation and valorisation of masculinist assertions of dominance."--