Professor Epprecht recently published a new book, Accidental Queer: and other essays around critical masculinity in Southern Africa and Canada (Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon, 2024).
Accidental Queer is centrally concerned with understanding how masculinities have been constructed and contested within disordered gender, race, class and other relations, and to wonder how the many associated harms might be fruitfully addressed at this moment of multiple existential crises. Understanding today's "hegemonic masculinity" as an artefact of colonialism and racial capitalism that is tenaciously reproduced through the fantasy of endless economic growth, he invites men to constructively engage with African feminism, decolonization and degrowth theory.
Congratulations, Dr. Epprecht!
