Safari commodification depends on marketing masculinity and risk that rewrites provenance

Evidence

Kleinhans, as a wildlife image manager, was clearly fearful that the reputation of his lions (including his lionesses) was being feminized. It was, after all, the aura of explosive risk that would give his lions, male and female, their commercial teeth. His economic survival and male dignity depended on decommodifying the purportedly canned lions in order to recommodify them as a different product—pure, uncanned embodiments of a snarling, timeless African authenticity that couldn’t be bought elsewhere. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 501

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Safari entrepreneurs perform white manhood to profit from anxieties about postapartheid change — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 510; Pastoral longing for benign nature encoded masculine commodity attitudes toward it — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 97; Web grabbing is better analyzed as commodity fetishism than voyeurism — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 329

Broader Connections

• Safari entrepreneurs perform white manhood to profit from anxieties about postapartheid change #corroborates (0.95) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 510
• Pastoral longing for benign nature encoded masculine commodity attitudes toward it #expands (0.75) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 97