Safari entrepreneurs perform white manhood to profit from anxieties about postapartheid change

Evidence

Kleinhans died a performer in the transnational theater of Wild Africa on a stage crowded with anxieties about race, white manhood, domesticity, class, risk, and authentic wilderness, a stage that was both “timeless” and suffused with the historical uncertainties of an emergent postapartheid order. He sought to stave off that order—and capitalize on it—by aligning himself, economically and psychologically, with the eco-archaic expectations of the Pretoria-Fort Worth axis. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 510

Categorization

• XREF: Directly engages Haraway’s ‘Teddy Bear Patriarchy’ cited at 512 and the reader’s settler-colonial/whiteness strand. — connects to: Safari commodification depends on marketing masculinity and risk that rewrites provenance — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 501