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BOULTON Jack
Post-doctorant
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Adresse visiteur Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains Adresse courrier Université libre de Bruxelles |
Bio
I am an anthropologist working primarily on gender and architecture in contemporary urban Namibia. My FNRS-funded postdoctoral project concerns gender and colonial architecture in Swakopmund and Windhoek, two of Namibia’s main urban settlements. Within the context of this research, I am interested in the ways that the remnants and ruins of Namibia’s German colonial period are understood and experienced in the present day, relating these experiences to those of gender.
My doctorate (2018) was conducted at KU Leuven; for this, I conducted ethnographic research concerning masculinities in the context of uranium mining, also in urban Namibia (Swakopmund). This research was published as a book, Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It: Men, Relatedness and Intimacy in Swakopmund, Namibia, in 2021. Between 2019 and 2022 I continued to publish based on my doctoral fieldwork, whilst working as Editorial Assistant and then Handling Editor at journal African Diaspora (Brill). Before coming to LAMC in 2024 I was a DFG-funded Walter Benjamin Fellow at the Institut für Ethnologie, University of Freiburg, Germany, where I was working on a project concerning masculinities and the urban landscape in Namibia.
I am currently Editor in Chief at journal Stimulus Respond (www.stimulusrespond.com). My research interests are masculinities (and gender more broadly), architecture, urban anthropology, and ghosts (in all their forms).
Jounal articles
Boulton, Jack. 2026. ‘“Ti Aumâs Oms”: Notes on a Configuration of the NE 51/ Series Houses in Windhoek, Namibia.’ Critical African Studies 18 (1): 94–112. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2026.2638289.
Boulton, Jack. 2025. ‘The Shadow of the Soldier: Men, Kinship and the Urban Landscape in Contemporary Namibia.’ Men and Masculinities. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X251379813.
Bjarnesen, Jesper, Jack Boulton, Uroš Kovač, Ndubueze Mbah, Bruce Whitehouse, and Robert Wyrod. 2023. ‘Of Masks and Masculinities in Africa.’ Africa Spectrum 58 (3): 191–200. https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397231217520.
Boulton, Jack. 2023. ‘Beyond Toxic Masculinity: Reading and Writing Men in Post-Apartheid Namibia.’ Africa Spectrum 58 (3): 227–246. https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397231175170.
Boulton, Jack. 2022. ‘Specters of the Colony.’ Anthropology and Humanism 47 (2): 381–86. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12387.
Boulton, Jack. 2020. ‘Of Friends and Kollegen: Understanding Male Friendships in Swakopmund, Namibia.’ Anthropology Southern Africa 43 (3): 169–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2020.1754130.
Boulton, Jack. 2020. ‘Ongame Molwashoka Otse: Reflections on Suicide from Swakopmund, Namibia.’ Medicine Anthropology Theory 7 (1): 176–87. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.7.1.764.
Squirewell, Stan, and Jack Boulton. 2020. ‘Alternative Universes and Carbon Imaginaries.’ African Diaspora 12 (1): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1163/18725465-bja10001.
Boulton, Jack. 2019. ‘“I Only Relax with my Friend and my Wife”: Between Friends and Family in Swakopmund, Namibia.’ Etnofoor 31 (1): 85–98.
Boulton, Jack. 2019. ‘To Beg, or to Pray: Makalani and the “Zula Economy” in Swakopmund.’ Journal of Namibian Studies 25: 7–29.
Arnaut, Karel, and Jack Boulton. 2019. ‘This Tiny Invader: Inversions and Connections across Multiple Worlds.’ African Diaspora 12 (1–2): v–xii. https://doi.org/10.1163/18725465-01201003.
Boulton, Jack. 2017. ‘Experimental Intimacies: Young Men's Understandings of their Relationships with Women in Swakopmund.’ Journal of Namibian Studies 22: 25–44.
Boulton, Jack. 2014. ‘Frontier Wars: Violence and Space in Northern Ireland.’ University of Western Ontario Anthropology Journal 22 (1): 100–114.
Boulton, Jack. 2013. ‘Defining the Enemy: Myth and Representation in the War on Terror.’ vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology 12 (1): 54–66.
Books (peer reviewed)
Boulton, Jack. 2021. Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It: Men, Relatedness and Intimacy in Swakopmund, Namibia. Basel Namibia Studies 23. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
Edited books (peer reviewed)
Boulton, Jack, ed. 2014. Hand Picked Stimulus Respond. London: Pavement Books.
Book chapters (peer reviewed)
Boulton, Jack. 2023. ‘“The Crocodile is Stronger in the Water”: Swakopmund Jetty as a Place of Death in Namibia.’ In New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Change and Contestation, edited by Marlies Westendorp, Danielle House, and Avril Maddrell, 107–23. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802202397.00013.
Boulton, Jack. 2021. ‘Uranium as Monster in Swakopmund.’ In Monstrous Ontologies: Politics Ethics Materiality, edited by Caterina Nirta and Andrea Pavoni, 45–60. Critical Perspectives on Social Science. New York: Vernon Press.