The Precarity of Masculinity

Uroš Kovač is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the “Future Rural Africa” Collaborative Research Centre based at the University of Cologne, as well as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Münster Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. He conducted doctoral research with the ERC-funded GLOBALSPORT research project at the University of Amsterdam Department of Anthropology.

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Precarity, Spirituality, and Masculinities



Chapter 1. Dreams of Mobility: Football between Politics, Economy, Spirituality, and Transnational Markets

Chapter 2. “This Is a Business, Not a Charity”: Political and Moral Economy of Football and the Production of the Suffering Subject

Chapter 3. Becoming Useful and Humble: Moral Masculinities in Uncertain Times

Chapter 4. “Tapping the Power”: Ruptures and Continuities in the Spiritual World of Football

Chapter 5. Anxious Athletes, Spiritual Wives: Football, Pentecostalism, and the Body



Conclusion: Masculinities, Faith, and the Production of Aspiration



References

Index