ISBN:
978-1-78920-927-3
,
1789209277
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 173 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen, Karten ;
,
24 cm.
Parallel Title:
Online version Kovač, Uroš Precarity of masculinity
DDC:
796.334096711
Keywords:
Cameroon / Emigration and immigration
;
Cameroon
;
Soccer / Cameroon
;
Soccer players / Selection and appointment / Cameroon
;
Soccer / Religious aspects / Christianity
;
Pentecostalism / Cameroon
;
Masculinity in sports / Cameroon
;
Footballeurs / Sélection et nomination / Cameroun
;
Mouvement charismatique / Cameroun
;
Masculinité dans les sports / Cameroun
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Masculinity in sports
;
Pentecostalism
;
Soccer
;
Soccer players / Selection and appointment
;
Fußball.
;
Männlichkeit.
;
Kamerun.
;
Fußball
;
Männlichkeit
Abstract:
"Since the 1990s, an increasing number of young men in Cameroon have aspired to play football as a career and a strategy to migrate abroad. Migration through the sport promises fulfillment of masculine dreams of sports stardom, as well as opportunities to earn a living that have been hollowed out by the country's long economic stalemate. The aspiring footballers are increasingly turning to Pentecostal Christianity, which allows them to challenge common tropes of young men as stubborn and promiscuous, while also offering a moral and bodily regime that promises success despite the odds. Yet the transnational sports market is tough and unpredictable: it demands disciplined young bodies and introduces new forms of uncertainty. This book unpacks young Cameroonians' football dreams, Pentecostal faith, obligations to provide, and desires to migrate to highlight the precarity of masculinity in structurally adjusted Africa and neoliberal capitalism"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction. Precarity, Spirituality, and Masculinities -- Dreams of Mobility: Football between Politics, Economy, Spirituality, and Transnational Markets -- "This Is a Business, Not a Charity": Political and Moral Economy of Football and the Production of the Suffering Subject -- Becoming Useful and Humble: Moral Masculinities in Uncertain Times -- "Tapping the Power": Ruptures and Continuities in the Spiritual World of Football -- Anxious Athletes, Spiritual Wives: Football. Pentecostalism, and the Body -- Conclusion. Masculinities, Faith, and the Production of Aspiration
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