The Precarity of Masculinity : : Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon / / Uroš Kovač.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Precarity, Spirituality, and Masculinities
- Chapter 1. Dreams of Mobility: Football between Politics, Economy, Spirituality, and Transnational Markets
- Chapter 2. “This Is a Business, Not a Charity”: Political and Moral Economy of Football and the Production of the Suffering Subject
- Chapter 3. Becoming Useful and Humble: Moral Masculinities in Uncertain Times
- Chapter 4. “Tapping the Power”: Ruptures and Continuities in the Spiritual World of Football
- Chapter 5. Anxious Athletes, Spiritual Wives: Football, Pentecostalism, and the Body
- Conclusion. Masculinities, Faith, and the Production of Aspiration
- References
- Index