Thomas Hendriks
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3611552 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas Hendriks |
| PRENOMES | Thomas |
| SOBRENOME | Hendriks |
| ASSINATURA | HENDRIKS T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7676-6171 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
On Dankwa's Gift
Serena Dankwa's work Knowing Women is a rare and precious gift that will undoubtedly reshape the contours of queer African studies. I hope the following can help transmit this gift of queer knowledge, which is itself the product of intimate processes of learning from and with Ghanaian working-class women who pass on erotic knowledge to their partners—and whose insights can now also touch us (albeit, unavoidably, in highly mediated textual form).T…
Rainforest Capitalism
Making men fall
In modern social thinking, norms are generally thought of in opposition to a space of freedom that is more or less curtailed by and through processes of normalization. 'Transgression' thereby becomes an implicit or explicit act of resistanceagainstthe norm. This is particularly clear in Western Queer Theory, where a political and analytical investment in anti-normativity has - paradoxically - become a field-defining norm. Yet such strong anti-nor…
Readings in Sexualities from Africa
Images and stories about African sexuality abound in today's globalized media. Frequently old stereotypes and popular opinion inform these stories, and sex in the media is predominately approached as a problem in need of solutions and intervention. The authors gathered here refuse an easy characterization of African sexuality and instead seek to understand the various erotic realities, sexual practices, and gendered changes taking place across th…
Queer(ing) popular culture
Contemporary African societies are regularly depicted as inherently homophobic cultural spaces by Western media. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among self-consciously effeminate fioto men and their so-called 'normal' boyfriends in Kinshasa (DRC), this article troubles such monolithic images of 'African homophobia'. My interlocutors' deliberately provocative readings of music, video clips, urban painting and street performances bring to the for…
‘Erotiques Cannibales’
This article illustrates the theoretical productivity of the recent ontological turn in anthropology as a way to further ‘anthropologize’ queer studies by taking seriously erotic alterity as an ethnographic situation that unlocks possibilities for radically re-thinking desire beyond the limiting framework of ‘sexuality’. It proposes a thought experiment with the specific ways in which same-sex loving men and boys in contemporary urban Congo conce…
A darker shade of white
This article offers a new perspective on contemporary 'whiteness' in Africa by looking at the ambiguous ways in which it affects everyday life in and around the labour compounds of a multinational timber firm in the Congolese rainforest. As a foreign investment enclave, the logging concession is home to a small isolated community of European expatriate men whose 'white' faces evoke a set of ambivalent memories of colonial exploitation in the area…
SIM cards of desire
Despite its pervasive homophobia, everyday life in urban Democratic Republic of Congo is full of queer affordances that are of particular interest for understanding larger socioeconomic changes, shifting gender dynamics, and recurring cosmopolitan aspirations. Ethnographic fieldwork in Kinshasa and Kisangani reveals how male same-sex desire is produced, distributed, and consumed in a "homoerotic economy" that generates its own characteristic inst…
Ethnographic Notes on ‘Camp’
As a set of ethnographic 'notes on camp' — a pun on Susan Sontag's 1964 essay — the following paragraphs provide an ethnographically informed theoretical reflection on the nature of camps as specific spatial manifestations surfing on multiple mobile borders and, in their turn, producing characteristic border mobility from a contemporary African perspective. As a direct spatial consequence of current neo-liberal investment in African extractive in…
Race and desire in the porno-tropics
In this article I explore the limits of Anne McClintock’s conceptualization of the ‘porno-tropics’ as a concept to understand the everyday lives of an isolated group of European expatriates working for a logging company in the Congolese rainforest. Based on long-term ethnographic research, I give a reading of two sets of images I encountered during my fieldwork – a soft-erotic calendar and a hardcore porn site – to come to a better understanding …
Erotics of Sin
Through a contextualized reading of a series of photographs taken by Premonstratensian missionaries in the Belgian Congo, this article shows the “porno-tropic” dynamics at work in their photographic practices and politics of representation. The analysis of pictures of black women and girls, black men and boys, reveals a missionary economy of desire as an “erotics of sin,” fueled by tensions between morality and pornography, and integrating both m…
SIM cards of desire
Despite its pervasive homophobia, everyday life in urban Democratic Republic of Congo is full of queer affordances that are of particular interest for understanding larger socioeconomic changes, shifting gender dynamics, and recurring cosmopolitan aspirations. Ethnographic fieldwork in Kinshasa and Kisangani reveals how male same-sex desire is produced, distributed, and consumed in a "homoerotic economy" that generates its own characteristic inst…
Queer(ing) popular culture
Contemporary African societies are regularly depicted as inherently homophobic cultural spaces by Western media. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among self-consciously effeminate fioto men and their so-called 'normal' boyfriends in Kinshasa (DRC), this article troubles such monolithic images of 'African homophobia'. My interlocutors' deliberately provocative readings of music, video clips, urban painting and street performances bring to the for…
Making men fall
In modern social thinking, norms are generally thought of in opposition to a space of freedom that is more or less curtailed by and through processes of normalization. 'Transgression' thereby becomes an implicit or explicit act of resistanceagainstthe norm. This is particularly clear in Western Queer Theory, where a political and analytical investment in anti-normativity has - paradoxically - become a field-defining norm. Yet such strong anti-nor…
A darker shade of white
This article offers a new perspective on contemporary 'whiteness' in Africa by looking at the ambiguous ways in which it affects everyday life in and around the labour compounds of a multinational timber firm in the Congolese rainforest. As a foreign investment enclave, the logging concession is home to a small isolated community of European expatriate men whose 'white' faces evoke a set of ambivalent memories of colonial exploitation in the area…
Erotics of Sin
Through a contextualized reading of a series of photographs taken by Premonstratensian missionaries in the Belgian Congo, this article shows the “porno-tropic” dynamics at work in their photographic practices and politics of representation. The analysis of pictures of black women and girls, black men and boys, reveals a missionary economy of desire as an “erotics of sin,” fueled by tensions between morality and pornography, and integrating both m…
Race and desire in the porno-tropics
In this article I explore the limits of Anne McClintock’s conceptualization of the ‘porno-tropics’ as a concept to understand the everyday lives of an isolated group of European expatriates working for a logging company in the Congolese rainforest. Based on long-term ethnographic research, I give a reading of two sets of images I encountered during my fieldwork – a soft-erotic calendar and a hardcore porn site – to come to a better understanding …
Ethnographic Notes on ‘Camp’
As a set of ethnographic 'notes on camp' — a pun on Susan Sontag's 1964 essay — the following paragraphs provide an ethnographically informed theoretical reflection on the nature of camps as specific spatial manifestations surfing on multiple mobile borders and, in their turn, producing characteristic border mobility from a contemporary African perspective. As a direct spatial consequence of current neo-liberal investment in African extractive in…
SIM cards of desire
Despite its pervasive homophobia, everyday life in urban Democratic Republic of Congo is full of queer affordances that are of particular interest for understanding larger socioeconomic changes, shifting gender dynamics, and recurring cosmopolitan aspirations. Ethnographic fieldwork in Kinshasa and Kisangani reveals how male same-sex desire is produced, distributed, and consumed in a "homoerotic economy" that generates its own characteristic inst…
A darker shade of white
This article offers a new perspective on contemporary 'whiteness' in Africa by looking at the ambiguous ways in which it affects everyday life in and around the labour compounds of a multinational timber firm in the Congolese rainforest. As a foreign investment enclave, the logging concession is home to a small isolated community of European expatriate men whose 'white' faces evoke a set of ambivalent memories of colonial exploitation in the area…
‘Erotiques Cannibales’
This article illustrates the theoretical productivity of the recent ontological turn in anthropology as a way to further ‘anthropologize’ queer studies by taking seriously erotic alterity as an ethnographic situation that unlocks possibilities for radically re-thinking desire beyond the limiting framework of ‘sexuality’. It proposes a thought experiment with the specific ways in which same-sex loving men and boys in contemporary urban Congo conce…
Queer(ing) popular culture
Contemporary African societies are regularly depicted as inherently homophobic cultural spaces by Western media. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among self-consciously effeminate fioto men and their so-called 'normal' boyfriends in Kinshasa (DRC), this article troubles such monolithic images of 'African homophobia'. My interlocutors' deliberately provocative readings of music, video clips, urban painting and street performances bring to the for…
Readings in Sexualities from Africa
Images and stories about African sexuality abound in today's globalized media. Frequently old stereotypes and popular opinion inform these stories, and sex in the media is predominately approached as a problem in need of solutions and intervention. The authors gathered here refuse an easy characterization of African sexuality and instead seek to understand the various erotic realities, sexual practices, and gendered changes taking place across th…
Making men fall
In modern social thinking, norms are generally thought of in opposition to a space of freedom that is more or less curtailed by and through processes of normalization. 'Transgression' thereby becomes an implicit or explicit act of resistanceagainstthe norm. This is particularly clear in Western Queer Theory, where a political and analytical investment in anti-normativity has - paradoxically - become a field-defining norm. Yet such strong anti-nor…
On Dankwa's Gift
Serena Dankwa's work Knowing Women is a rare and precious gift that will undoubtedly reshape the contours of queer African studies. I hope the following can help transmit this gift of queer knowledge, which is itself the product of intimate processes of learning from and with Ghanaian working-class women who pass on erotic knowledge to their partners—and whose insights can now also touch us (albeit, unavoidably, in highly mediated textual form).T…
Rainforest Capitalism
Sociology (8 obras) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (6 obras) · Anthropology (6 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Ethnography (6 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · African history and culture studies (4 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras)