HAVE YOUR YELLOW CAKE AND EAT IT, men, relatedness and intimacy in Swakopmund, Namibia

201pp., illus., maps, paperback, Basel Namibia Studies Series 23, Basel, 2021

Foreword by Steven Van Wolputte. 

Jack Boulton on the ways in which intimacy develops and manifests for men in Swakopmund, a city of beaches and luxury hotels, a brutal colonial history and a large uranium mining industry. 

Yellowcake is a solid form of mixed uranium oxide, produced from uranium ore in the uranium recovery (milling) process.

Jack Boulton is an associate researcher at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa, University of Leuven, and editor-in-chief of the inter-disciplinary journal Stimulus Respond