Publications
refereed academic publications (8)
2012
- R. Spronk (2012). Ambiguous Pleasures. Sexuality and Middle Class Self-definitions in Nairobi. Oxford/New York: Berghahn Publishers.
2011
- R. Spronk (2011). Media and the Praxis of Sexual Knowledge in Nairobi. Anthropologica, 63, 145-159.
- O. Verkaaik & R. Spronk (2011). Sexular practice: notes on an ethnography of secularism. Focaal, 2011(59), 83-88.
2009
- R. Spronk (2009). Sex, sexuality and negotiating Africanness among young professionals in Nairobi. Africa, 79(4), 500-519.
- R. Spronk (2009). Media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love in middle-class Nairobi. In J. Cole & L.M. Thomas (Eds.), Love in Africa (pp. 181-203). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2005
- R. Spronk (2005). ‘There is a Time to Fool around and There is a Time to Grow Up’. Balancing Sex, Relationships and Notions of Masculinity in Nairobi. In D. Gibson & A.P. Hardon (Eds.), Rethinking Masculinities, Violence and AIDS. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis.
- R. Spronk (2005). Female Sexuality in Nairobi: Flawed or Favoured? Culture, Health & Sexuality, 7(3), 267-280.
- A. van der Kwaak, R. Spronk & K. Willemse (2005). From Modern Myths to Global Encounters. Belonging and the Dynamics of Change in Postcolonial Africa. Leiden: CNWS.
academic publications (2)
2009
- R. Spronk (2009). Fear for aids: moralizing youngsters in Kenya. In S. van der Geest & M. Tankink (Eds.), Theory and action: essays for an anthropologist (pp. 178-183). Amsterdam: AMB.
2007
- R. Spronk (2007). Beyond pain, towards pleasure in the study of sexuality in Africa. Sexuality in Africa Magazine, 4(3), 3-6, 8, 14.
professional publications (1)
2007
- R. Spronk (2007). review: Renske de Greef [Review of the book Seks in Afrika. Zoenen, flirten, riten en Aids]. Med. Antropol., 19(1).
doctoral thesis (1)
2006
- R. Spronk (2006, June 7). Ambiguous Pleasures. Sexuality and new self-definitions in Nairobi. UvA Universiteit van Amsterdam (301 pag.). Supervisor(s): prof.dr. P.L. Geschiere & dr B. Meyer.
recognitions (6)
2010
- R. Spronk (Ed.). (2010). Etnofoor.
- R. Spronk (2010). NWO VENI grant for the research project "Transformations in intimacy. Sexuality and modern personhood among middle-class Ghanaians from 1940 to the present". Recognition.
2009
- R. Spronk (Ed.). (2009). Etnofoor.
2008
- R. Spronk (Ed.). (2008). Etnofoor.
2007
- R. Spronk (Ed.). (2007). Etnofoor.
2005
- R. Spronk (Ed.). (2005). Etnofoor.