Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign : war resistance in apartheid South Africa / Daniel Conway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conway, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

End Conscription Campaign (South Africa).

Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History.

Anti-apartheid movements.

Draft resisters--South Africa.

Draft resisters.

Sociology, Military--South Africa.

Sociology, Military.

Masculinity--South Africa.

Masculinity.

South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1994.

South Africa.

South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 176 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2012.

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2017]

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation and analyses the defiance of compulsory military service by individual white men, and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), the most significant white anti-apartheid movement to happen in South Africa. Military conscription and objection to it are conceptualised as gendered acts of citizenship and premised on and constitutive of masculinities. Conway draws upon a range of materials and disciplines to produce this socio-political study. Sources include interviews with white men who objected to military service in the South African Defence Force (SADF); archival material, including military intelligence surveillance of the ECC; ECC campaigning material, press reports and other pro-state propaganda. The analysis is informed by perspectives in sociology, international relations, history and from work on contemporary militarised societies such as those in Israel and Turkey. This book also explores the interconnections between militarisation, sexuality, race, homophobia and political authoritarianism.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Soldiers, citizens and strangers

2. The militarisation of South Africa and the growth of war resistance

3. Performing citizenship, engendering consent: constructing militarised masculinities and citizenship in South Africa

4. Going the right way: contesting conscription

5. Breaking away: the End Conscription Campaign

6. Every cowards choice?: responses to war resistance

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-171) and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

1-5261-2959-0

OCLC:

1085614281