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Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription campaign: War resistance in apartheid South Africa

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Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa’s militarisation, analysing the defiance of compulsory military service by individual white men and the anti-apartheid activism of the white women and men within the End Conscription Campaign (ECC). The ECC used to be probably the most significant white anti-apartheid social movement in South Africa. Military conscription and objection to it are conceptualised as gendered acts of citizenship and premised on and constitutive of masculinities.

Analysing the interconnections between militarisation, sexuality, race, homophobia and political authoritarianism, Conway draws upon a range of fabrics and disciplines to provide this socio-political look at. Sources include interviews with white men who objected to military service within the South African Defence Force (SADF), archival subject matter including military intelligence surveillance of the ECC, ECC campaigning subject matter, press reports and pro-state propaganda. The analysis is informed by perspectives in sociology, international members of the family, history and from analysis of latest militarised societies such as Israel and Turkey.

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