A Black Man is a Cornered Man
| Autor: | Linda Musariri, Eileen Moyer |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body (AISSR, FMG) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Cultural Studies
Inequality media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Gender studies 050701 cultural studies Gender Studies Precarity Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Inner city 050903 gender studies Xenophobia 11. Sustainability Sociology 0509 other social sciences Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Gender, Place and Culture, 28(6), 888-905. Routledge Gender, Place & Culture |
| ISSN: | 1360-0524 0966-369X |
| Popis: | Facing an ever-changing political-economic landscape marked by inequality, joblessness, and xenophobia, migrants in inner city Johannesburg are pushed towards the economic margins, or the ‘corner’ of life. In this precarious place, structural and everyday violence shape the daily lives and practices of men from various parts of Africa. This article examines how such men work to live up to self and societal expectations of masculinities while attempting to adjust to the socio-economic realities they face. Departing from the crisis in masculinity narrative, we highlight the multiple, creative ways that men navigate precarity. Our arguments are based on an ethnographic study of masculinities and violence, conducted from June 2017 to February 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Drawing on the stories of two migrant men and more broadly from observations undertaken at Uncle Kofi’s Corner, a street corner hangout and our main ethnographic site, we show how participants mapped urban space to produce enclaved masculinities. In these enclaves, specific scripts on how to be a man were (re)constructed resulting in multiple and unstable masculinities in a perpetual state of becoming. |
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