Jack BOULTON

Adresse visiteur Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains Avenue Jeanne, 44 Bâtiment S Bureau S12.133 1050 Bruxelles Belgique Adresse courrier Université libre de Bruxelles Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 50 - CP 124 1050 Bruxelles Belgique jack.boulton@ulb.be

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).