M Epprecht
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3154 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Epprecht |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Epprecht |
| ASSINATURA | EPPRECHT M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3497-9395 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 182 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Negotiating sexual and gender diversity in rural and peri-urban KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
A noticeable tendency in the first generation of scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression (SOGIE) in Africa has been the focus on urban or modern institutional settings. A dominant theme is to document people's struggles against stigma, fear and violence to better inform interventions to strengthen human rights and sexual health for all. In some cases, unintentionally, the impression conveyed of Africa is of a continent wi…
História do gênero e da sexualidade dissidente na África Austral
Entrevista realizada no dia 27 de janeiro de 2023, na Queen’s University, Canadá
Decolonizing an African art collection in Canada? Reflections on the exhibition “Stories to Tell
This paper discusses an exhibition of the Justin and Elisabeth Lang Collection of African Art at Queen’s University, Ontario, by guest curators Marc Epprecht and Allison Goebel (2016–2018). This was a community-based exhibition that attempted to challenge the problematic history of colonial-era appropriation, collection and display of African art in Western museums. Members of the African and diasporic communities at Queen’s and from the region w…
New studies of sexual orientation, gender identities and expression in Africa south of the Sahara
Experiment at KwaPoyinandi
KwaPoyinandi was the Zulu term for the Local Health Commission (LHC), a unique but now little-remembered form of local authority that governed the freehold community of Edendale and contiguous farms, townships, and informal settlements from 1942 to 1974. Its early mandate was to rehabilitate the once prosperous community within the social medicine paradigm (primary health care attentive to the social determinants of health) and with the promise o…
Transformation discourses in southern Africa in Covid-19 perspective
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1. A vast literature proposes and debates ways to achieve these goals, but two get-your-foot-in-the-door overviews are Escobar (Citation2015) and D’Alisa, Demaria, and Kallis (Citation2015).2. See, for example, Beinart (Citation1984, Citation1989, Citation2000), Mather (Citation1995), Jacobs (Citation2003), Carruthers (Citation1995) and Nusted (Citation2015). Wo…
Working Class Homosexuality in South African History
The very existence of homosexual working-class men in South Africa has long-been suppressed—or worse. Iain Edwards and Marc Epprecht have recovered representative stories of these men who were previously deemed “outside of history.” Based on a previously unpublished primary source from the early twentieth century, as well as unique interviews with men remembering their lives in the gay settlement of Mkhumbane, this book is meant to inspire both a…
Boy Wives, Female Husbands twenty years on
(2018). Boy Wives, Female Husbands twenty years on: reflections on scholarly activism and the struggle for sexual orientation and gender identity/expression rights in Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 349-364
Two decades of sexuality research in Africa south of the Sahara
Histories of Heterosexualities in Colonial Africa
Book Review| June 01 2018 Histories of Heterosexualities in Colonial Africa Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon, Jean-Baptiste, Rachel, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. xiv + 300 pp.When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1958, Aderinto, Saheed, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xviii + 241 pp.Medicine and Morality in Egypt: …
An Uncertain Age
The Native Village Debate in Pietermaritzburg, 1848–1925
This article examines the history of debates around the creation of a ‘native village’ in Pietermaritzburg culminating in the construction of the city's first formal township. This, and the decision to locate the new township next to the city's main dump, have commonly been interpreted to corroborate Maynard Swanson's influential concept of the ‘sanitation syndrome’. Swanson first coined that term to explain the origins of racial segregation in D…
Abortion Under Apartheid
Reviewed by: Abortion Under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women's Reproductive Rights in South Africa par Susanne M. Klausen Marc Epprecht Klausen, Susanne M. Abortion Under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women's Reproductive Rights in South Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 327. Abortion as a topic often brings out the worst in people, whether "worst" is measured by outright misogyny or simple callousness toward…
Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science
Ongoing political controversies around the world exemplify a long-standing and widespread preoccupation with the acceptability of homosexuality. Nonheterosexual people have seen dramatic surges both in their rights and in positive public opinion in many Western countries. In contrast, in much of Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Oceania, and parts of Asia, homosexual behavior remains illegal and severely punishable, with some countries reta…
Theophilus Shepstone and the forging of Natal
"Theophilus Shepstone and the forging of Natal: African autonomy and settler colonialism in the making of traditional authority." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 49(3), pp. 524–525
Africa's New Political Homophobia
New anti-gay laws in Nigeria and Uganda are part of an emergent trend of scapegoating sexual minorities as a distraction from governance failures. But sanctions are not the answer
Sexuality research as ‘dirty work’? An Africanist perspective
Shane Doyle. Before HIV
How to explain divergent rates of fertility and the spread/containment of HIV? These two questions are at the heart of Before HIV. Shane Doyle focuses on a relatively compact geographic area with contiguous ethnic groups whose histories on both issues diverge dramatically. What factors may have contributed to the differences over time between the people of Ankole, Buganda (in southwest Uganda), and Buhaya (the neighboring province of Tanzania)? C…
Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa
The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable coverage in the popular media in recent years. Gay-bashing by political and religious figures in Zimbabwe and Gambia; draconian new laws against lesbians and gays and their supporters in Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda; and the imprisonment and extortion of gay men in Senegal and Cameroon have all rightly sparked internationa…
Achebe, Nwando. — The Female King of Colonial Nigeria
This book tells three distinct histories. The first, and most original and important contribution, is a biography of colonial Nigeria's only known female warrant chief, Ahebi Ugbabe, who ruled over a collection of 33 villages known as Enugu-Ezike from 1918-1948. The second is a social history/ethnography of northern Igboland that emphasizes the perspectives of the author's Igbo informants. And the third is how the author managed to reconstruct Ug…
How Sexual Minority Rights Activism Got its Groove in Southern Africa
Book Review| October 01 2013 How Sexual Minority Rights Activism Got its Groove in Southern Africa Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa. Currier, Ashley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. xii + 255 pp. Marc Epprecht Marc Epprecht Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 581–583. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2279951 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique
Meanings of Homosexuality, Same-Sex Sexuality, and Africanness in Two South African Townships
The assertion "homosexuality is un-African" is widely viewed as an expression of homophobia. However, without knowledge of what homosexuality and "Africanness" mean in a given context, any understanding of how to shift the prejudices associated with this assertion remains limited. Research conducted in 2010 with police, high school learners (students), and a sample of more than one thousand residents from two urban townships in South Africa contr…
Sexual minorities, human rights and public health strategies in Africa
Remarkable progress has been made towards the recognition of sexual minority rights in Africa. At the same time, a marked increase in attacks, rhetorical abuse, and restrictive legislation against sexual minorities or ‘homosexuality’ makes activism for sexual rights a risky endeavour in many African countries. Campaigns for sexual rights and ‘coming out’ are frequently perceived as a form of Western cultural imperialism, leading to an exportation…
Alluring Opportunities
The 'unsaying' of indigenous homosexualities in Zimbabwe
Many black Zimbabweans believe that homosexuality was introduced to the country by white settlers and is now mainly propagated by ‘the West’. The denial of indigenous homosexual behaviours and identities is often so strong that critics have been quick with accusations of homophobia. Yet those critics unfairly impose a rather crude and ultimately unhelpful analysis. Without denying that violent forms of homophobia do exist in Zimbabwe, the invisib…
Sexual minorities, human rights and public health strategies in Africa
Remarkable progress has been made towards the recognition of sexual minority rights in Africa. At the same time, a marked increase in attacks, rhetorical abuse, and restrictive legislation against sexual minorities or ‘homosexuality’ makes activism for sexual rights a risky endeavour in many African countries. Campaigns for sexual rights and ‘coming out’ are frequently perceived as a form of Western cultural imperialism, leading to an exportation…
"Bisexuality" and the Politics of Normal in African Ethnography
Anthropologists have played a central role in documenting the diversity of human sexuality as it is understood and expressed in different cultures around the world. Scholars in many other disciplines, including my own of history, are often heavily dependent upon their research. However, as Lyons and Lyons (2004) among others have persuasively demonstrated, anthropologists at times conscripted select evidence and even fabricated facts about the pe…
Breaking Story
The Making of ‘African Sexuality’
The notion that Africans share a common sexual culture distinct from people elsewhere in the world has for many years been a staple of popular culture, health, academic, and political discourse in the West as well as in Africa. Sometimes overtly racist (Black Peril) but sometimes intended to combat patronizing or colonialist stereotypes, the idea of a singular African sexuality remains an obstacle to the development of sexual rights and effective…
Work-Study Abroad Courses in International Development Studies
A strong presumption in many international development studies programs appears to be that field or work placements are intrinsically effective and good. But what does it really mean to put relatively affluent, mostly white undergraduates in a "real world" situation abroad for a short stint of time? What are the specific risks in terms of development ethics and educational goals? This article considers possible contradictions between common pract…
Teaching about homosexualities to Nigerian university students
Nigeria’s diverse cultures, religions and political parties appear to be unified by a strong taboo against homosexuality and gay rights. This has affected academic research, HIV/AIDS programmes, and sexuality education, all which commonly show evidence of heterosexism, self-censorship and even explicit condemnations of homosexuality. Yet a dissident discourse in Nigeria, as well as research from elsewhere in the region, suggests that this appeara…
Meanings of Homosexuality, Same-Sex Sexuality, and Africanness in Two South African Townships
The assertion "homosexuality is un-African" is widely viewed as an expression of homophobia. However, without knowledge of what homosexuality and "Africanness" mean in a given context, any understanding of how to shift the prejudices associated with this assertion remains limited. Research conducted in 2010 with police, high school learners (students), and a sample of more than one thousand residents from two urban townships in South Africa contr…
This Matter of Women Is Getting Very Bad
Women's ‘Conservatism’ and the Politics of Gender in Late Colonial Lesotho
The triumph of the ‘conservative’ BNP over the ‘radical’ BCP in Lesotho's pre-independence elections has long been a source of contention among analysts. While many factors are seen to have contributed to the BCP defeat, one which consistently appears in passing or in footnotes is the ‘conservative’ inclination of Basotho women who, in 1965 comprised two-thirds of the electorate. Women's ‘conservatism’ is commonly accepted as a given, stemming fr…
The Gay Oral History Project in Zimbabwe
This paper discusses an attempt to apply historical research directly to the development of a culture of human rights and democracy in Zimbabwe. The research concerns sensitive and controversial issues around sexuality, race, and nationalism that are important in and of themselves. What I would like to argue here, however, is that the method used to design and carry out the research project is at least as interesting. This holds true from the poi…
Male-Male Sexuality in Lesotho
Lesotho has an assertively heteronormative and “macho” culture. Indeed, Basotho men have long possessed a reputation in southern Africa for being among the fiercest gangsters, toughest workers, and most incorrigible womanizers of all the African peoples of the region. In 1907 an official enquiry into “unnatural vice” at the South African mines exonerated the Basotho of homosexual behavior. Yet by 1941 another report found that the Basotho were no…
"Unnaturel Vice" in South Africa
L'A. se propose de contribuer a l'historiographie recente sur l'homosexualite des Africains noirs en Afrique du Sud, mettant en evidence l'africanite de l'Afrique du Sud et problematisant des dichotomies telles que moderne/primitif, liberal/intolerant, agresseur/victime, blanc/noir. Il propose ainsi, a travers une meilleure comprehension des traditions autochtones de la sexualite, une mise en perspective critique de la these de l'exceptionalisme …
This Matter of Women Is Getting Very Bad
Women and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper offers an empirical study of a weaving enterprise in the southern African nation of Lesotho. The objective of the study was to test the theory and prescriptions of the liberal women in development (or WID) approach within the World Bank model of development as a whole. That is, through the analysis of a real life situation for a specific group of women in a specific Third World context, we sought to determine whether employment empower…
Domesticity and piety in colonial Lesotho
African women's Christian pious associations in southern Africa, or manyanos, have tended to be regarded by both European observers and elite African men as a 'bizarre' phenomenon. Their apparently irrational and excessive piety and legalism, their sometimes woolly theology, and their often dogged resistance to 'modern' ideas or leadership, were also commonly denounced by male church leaders. Yet they remain the most visible and widespread of all…
Lessons of Struggle
The Native Village Debate in Pietermaritzburg, 1848–1925
This article examines the history of debates around the creation of a ‘native village’ in Pietermaritzburg culminating in the construction of the city's first formal township. This, and the decision to locate the new township next to the city's main dump, have commonly been interpreted to corroborate Maynard Swanson's influential concept of the ‘sanitation syndrome’. Swanson first coined that term to explain the origins of racial segregation in D…
New Perspectives on Sexualities in Africa
(2009). New Perspectives on Sexualities in Africa: Introduction. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 43, New Perspectives on Sexualities in Africa, pp. 1-7
What an Abomination, a Rottenness of Culture”
(2001). “What an Abomination, a Rottenness of Culture”: Reflections upon the Gay Rights Movement in Southern Africa. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement: Vol. 22, Gender and Civil Commons, pp. 1089-1107
Achebe, Nwando. — The Female King of Colonial Nigeria
This book tells three distinct histories. The first, and most original and important contribution, is a biography of colonial Nigeria's only known female warrant chief, Ahebi Ugbabe, who ruled over a collection of 33 villages known as Enugu-Ezike from 1918-1948. The second is a social history/ethnography of northern Igboland that emphasizes the perspectives of the author's Igbo informants. And the third is how the author managed to reconstruct Ug…
This Matter of Women Is Getting Very Bad
Marc Epprecht. This Matter of Women Is Getting Very Bad: Gender, Development and Politics in Colonial Lesotho. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2000. ix + 281 pp. Biographical sketches of informants. Notes. Bibliography. Index. R190. Paper By challenging existing orthodoxies about gender roles and women's accomplishments in the development of Lesotho, Marc Epprecht has made a major contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of …
Class Acts I
Gender and History in Southern Africa
The Mfecane as Teaching Aid
The mfecane refers to the wars and migrations which took place in southern Africa between the 1810s and 1840s. Historians have long debated its causes, as well as drawn radically different conclusions from it about the "nature" of Africans. Most controversially, it has been used to reify African "tribalism" and justify apartheid. The present process of democratization in the region has renewed controversy as ethnic groups use versions of mfecane …
Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945
Domesticity and piety in colonial Lesotho
African women's Christian pious associations in southern Africa, or manyanos, have tended to be regarded by both European observers and elite African men as a 'bizarre' phenomenon. Their apparently irrational and excessive piety and legalism, their sometimes woolly theology, and their often dogged resistance to 'modern' ideas or leadership, were also commonly denounced by male church leaders. Yet they remain the most visible and widespread of all…
Lessons of Struggle
Maseru
The Mfecane as Teaching Aid
The mfecane refers to the wars and migrations which took place in southern Africa between the 1810s and 1840s. Historians have long debated its causes, as well as drawn radically different conclusions from it about the "nature" of Africans. Most controversially, it has been used to reify African "tribalism" and justify apartheid. The present process of democratization in the region has renewed controversy as ethnic groups use versions of mfecane …
Breaking Story
Maseru
Democratizing the Southern African Past
Women's ‘Conservatism’ and the Politics of Gender in Late Colonial Lesotho
The triumph of the ‘conservative’ BNP over the ‘radical’ BCP in Lesotho's pre-independence elections has long been a source of contention among analysts. While many factors are seen to have contributed to the BCP defeat, one which consistently appears in passing or in footnotes is the ‘conservative’ inclination of Basotho women who, in 1965 comprised two-thirds of the electorate. Women's ‘conservatism’ is commonly accepted as a given, stemming fr…
Women and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper offers an empirical study of a weaving enterprise in the southern African nation of Lesotho. The objective of the study was to test the theory and prescriptions of the liberal women in development (or WID) approach within the World Bank model of development as a whole. That is, through the analysis of a real life situation for a specific group of women in a specific Third World context, we sought to determine whether employment empower…
Gender and History in Southern Africa
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Gender and History in Southern Africa
Labour in Southern Africa
South Africa's truth and Reconciliation Commission (trc) is meant to purge the evil of the apartheid era from the nation's body politic. In exchange for immunity from prosecution, police, medical doctors, government ministers, and anti-apartheid activists have so far all volunteered graphic testimony of torture, assassinations, destabilization of neighbouring countries, and other crimes against humanity. Perhaps not surprisingly, however, no one …
The 'unsaying' of indigenous homosexualities in Zimbabwe
Many black Zimbabweans believe that homosexuality was introduced to the country by white settlers and is now mainly propagated by ‘the West’. The denial of indigenous homosexual behaviours and identities is often so strong that critics have been quick with accusations of homophobia. Yet those critics unfairly impose a rather crude and ultimately unhelpful analysis. Without denying that violent forms of homophobia do exist in Zimbabwe, the invisib…
The Gay Oral History Project in Zimbabwe
This paper discusses an attempt to apply historical research directly to the development of a culture of human rights and democracy in Zimbabwe. The research concerns sensitive and controversial issues around sexuality, race, and nationalism that are important in and of themselves. What I would like to argue here, however, is that the method used to design and carry out the research project is at least as interesting. This holds true from the poi…
Picturing Empire
Contemporary Struggles for the Pre-colonial Past in Southern Africa
Mujer, género y desarrollo en el Lesotho colonial
Theorizing gender and Feminisms in Contemporary African Studies
Black Peril, White Virtue
Black Peril: the crimes violence and justice legislating virtue explaining Black Peril white women domestic labour black women syphilis coloureds, poor whites and boundaries
Gender and the Making of a South African Bantustan
Une Critique “Beachienne” de la Littérature d'Expression Anglaise Récente Portant sur les Femmes et la Sexualité en Afrique Subsaharienne
Cet article a trois objectifs. Premièrement, attirer l'attention sur quelques contributions de David Beach à l'historiographie de l'Afrique subsaharienne. Deuxièmement, faire reconnaître l'importance de quelques travaux portant sur l'Afrique subsaharienne inspirés par le féminisme et la théorie “queer”. Et troisièmement, démontrer une démarche d'historien qui promet de renforcer une analyse qui est généralement déjà solide. Je conclus avec quelqu…
David Norman Beach (1943–1999)
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What an Abomination, a Rottenness of Culture”
(2001). “What an Abomination, a Rottenness of Culture”: Reflections upon the Gay Rights Movement in Southern Africa. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement: Vol. 22, Gender and Civil Commons, pp. 1089-1107
"Unnaturel Vice" in South Africa
L'A. se propose de contribuer a l'historiographie recente sur l'homosexualite des Africains noirs en Afrique du Sud, mettant en evidence l'africanite de l'Afrique du Sud et problematisant des dichotomies telles que moderne/primitif, liberal/intolerant, agresseur/victime, blanc/noir. Il propose ainsi, a travers une meilleure comprehension des traditions autochtones de la sexualite, une mise en perspective critique de la these de l'exceptionalisme …
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