101 research outputs found
From political to social generations: A critical reappraisal of Mannheimâs classical approach
Sexualized bodies: masculinity, power and identity in Mozambique
Drawing on ethnographic work carried out among Mozambican men living in
Maputo (the capital of Mozambique), this paper intends to describe how
subordinate men from a poor background are reconstructing their masculinity
through the explicit sexualization of their self. It has been shown that among poor
Mozambican men the lack of money or other material goods is compensated by
complex practices and a variety of discourses on sex and sexuality. Sexuality, and its
bodily enactment, is then used to reconstruct a powerful sense of manhood, which
may take a variety of forms ranging from identification with the norm of the âgood
loverâ to more struggle-based discourses. All of these strategies imply an explicit
investment in various forms of âbodily capitalâ, which may lead to the building up
of a phallocentric masculinity, though womenâs sexual agency is not ignored. In
male discourse, a value is attributed to goods, whether material or symbolic, which
function discursively according to an imagery of economic exchange as if the body
were a commodity, a discursively constructed capital of manhood. Through a
number of ethnographic examples, I will contend that we can consider masculinity
as a complex structure of capitals that can be enacted in different spheres and with
different meanings. As a result, different power hierarchies can be reconstructed
and a degree of plurality may be incorporated into what we consider hegemonic
masculinity. Sexuality and sex, while performed through a bodily hexis and
discourses on power and control, are at the core of these processes and represent a
vital constituent of the male self.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Migration trajectories in Southern Africa: The masculinity fix between Maputo and Johannesburg
Based on the premise that masculinity is constructed within geographically and historically
located social spaces, this chapter draws on forty biographical interviews with Mozambican
men carried out between 2005 to 2014. Focussing on the life stories of Mozambican men who
migrated to South Africa from the 1960s onwards, the chapter seeks to contribute to
expanding the theoretical and methodological conversations about the spatial dynamics of
migrant masculinities. It explores the interconnectedness of masculinity, migration,
colonialism, capitalism and socio-economic inequality in Southern Africa. The chapter
borrows and expands David Harveyâs notion of spatial fix to highlight the spatial dimension
of migrant masculinities and suggested that there is a particular spatial management of masculinities. While the masculinity-fix is produced by the racial and gendered dynamics of
transnational capitalism, it also associates masculinity with geographically and historically
situated spaces, where men engage with their trajectories and perform their subjectivities.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio
Gender in a box? The paradoxes of recognition beyond the gender binary
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Reassessing (de)standardization: Life course trajectories across three generations
A central problem of life course analysis concerns the changes brought about by the pluralization and differentiation of biographies in western societies. Lives would be increasingly dissimilar from each other and marked by a broader range of transitions and stages. Under the lens of life course theorization, the heterogenization of biographies is typically understood as destandardization. However, if the destandardization hypothesis gained momentum, there is still little information about its explanatory power outside the wealthiest centres of Europe and North America. Following recent trends in research, the article critically examines the applicability of the destandardization hypothesis to the Portuguese case. Through an analysis of the lives of three generations of Portuguese men and women, we reconstruct the life trajectories of each generation starting from the 1930s until the early 2000s. Through the reconstitution of both family and work trajectories, we see if there is a standard biography from which to derive subsequent patterns of heterogenization. From this perspective, we reassess the extent to which the destandardization model is suitable for explaining life course transformations in the Portuguese society.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Relembrar o passado, projetar o futuro. Celebrando seis décadas da Anålise Social
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