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Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It : Men, Relatedness and Intimacy in Swakopmund, Namibia

Author :  Jack Boulton (Foreword) Steven Van Wolputte

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Country
Namibia
Publisher
Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Namibia
ISBN 9783906927299
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info xii, 204p. ; 244x170mm. ; B/W Illustrations Includes Index
Product Weight 400 gms.
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Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It is a story of men, monsters and uranium in Swakopmund, a small coastal city in the west of Namibia. Founded by German settlers in the late nineteenth century, Swakopmund remains a popular holiday destination for Namibians and international visitors alike. How do young African men make their home in this peculiar town of pretty beaches and luxury hotels, a brutal colonial history and a large uranium mining industry? Are their close relations affected by global changes in the price of uranium? And how do we describe their life worlds which straddle many homes, neighbourhoods, and establishments - sometimes even existing beyond the limits of the post-colonial city? Employing a reflexive narrative and based on two year's fieldwork, Jack Boulton explores the myriad ways in which intimacy develops and manifests for men in a city defined predominantly by racialised difference and local and global forces of inequality.

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