Conspiracy narratives from postcolonial Africa: freemasonry, homosexuality, and illicit enrichment

"In this book, anthropologists Peter Geschiere and Rogers Orock examine the moral panic that engulfed Cameroon and Gabon, beginning in the mid-2000s, over a perceived rise in homosexuality. Setting out to uncover the origins of the conspiratorial narratives that fed into this obsession, they ar...

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Authors: Orock, Rogers (Author) ; Geschiere, Peter (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press [2024]
In:Year: 2024
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gabon / Cameroon / Conspiracy theory / Freemasonry / Homosexuality / Unjustified enrichment / History 2000-2024
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AZ New religious movements
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Homosexuality
B Cameroon
B Unjustified enrichment
B Conspiracy Theories (Cameroon) History 21st century
B Postcolonialism (Cameroon)
B Homophobia (Gabon)
B moral panics (Gabon) History 21st century
B Conspiracy Theories (Gabon) History 21st century
B Homophobia (Cameroon)
B Freemasonry
B Gabon
B Conspiracy theory
B History 2000-2024
B Postcolonialism (Gabon)
B moral panics (Cameroon) History 21st century
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