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The Precarity of Masculinity - Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon (Hardcover)
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The Precarity of Masculinity - Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon (Hardcover)
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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.
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