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Biltong Hunting As a Performance of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739188590
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Biltong Hunting As a Performance of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South AfricaDDC classification:
  • 639/.10968
LOC classification:
  • SK251.G56 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Biltong Hunting Landscape -- Chapter Two: The Spectre's Space: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Spatiality of Capitalist Nature -- Chapter Three: Violent Desire and Intimate Invisibility -- Chapter Four: Unleveling the Playing Field -- Unbalancing the Reciprocity -- Chapter Five: At Play in the Veld of Belonging -- Chapter Six: Escaping Modernity by Telling to Tell -- Chapter Seven: Resistance and the Art of Domination -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: Rifling through Nature analyzes landscape, hunting, identity, and belonging by examining the staging of biltong hunting on wildlife ranches in South Africa. It examines how hunting landscapes have become sites where formerly dominant white settler masculinity can perform rootedness and belonging vis-à-vis its loss of political power.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Biltong Hunting Landscape -- Chapter Two: The Spectre's Space: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Spatiality of Capitalist Nature -- Chapter Three: Violent Desire and Intimate Invisibility -- Chapter Four: Unleveling the Playing Field -- Unbalancing the Reciprocity -- Chapter Five: At Play in the Veld of Belonging -- Chapter Six: Escaping Modernity by Telling to Tell -- Chapter Seven: Resistance and the Art of Domination -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- Index -- About the Author.

Rifling through Nature analyzes landscape, hunting, identity, and belonging by examining the staging of biltong hunting on wildlife ranches in South Africa. It examines how hunting landscapes have become sites where formerly dominant white settler masculinity can perform rootedness and belonging vis-à-vis its loss of political power.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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