Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Precarity of MasculinityCondition: NewFormat: HardbackSubtitle: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in CameroonISBN-10: 1789209277EAN: 9781789209273ISBN: 9781789209273Publisher: Berghahn BooksRelease Date: 03/11/2022Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Uroš Kovač, Uroš KovacGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social Sciences, Society & CultureType: ProtestantRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Precarity of Masculinity
Title: The Precarity of Masculinity
Subtitle: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Camero
ISBN-10: 1789209277
EAN: 9781789209273
ISBN: 9781789209273
Release Date: 03/11/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 229mm
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 220 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Precarity of Masculinity : Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Subject: Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic, Sociology of Sports, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Religion, Sports & Recreation, Social Science
Author: Uros Kovač
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
