Masculinities and Crime: Rethinking the “Man Question”?

Collier, Richard

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“…This is particularly the case in studies based on social constructionist accounts of masculinity. Collier (1998) argues that a binary division between sex and gender, as well as other binaries (man-woman, hetero-R e t r a c t e d homosexual, for example) pervade research on masculinities and need to be disrupted. Many of these binaries are evident in the literature of masculinities in farming based on social constructionist accounts of masculinities.…”

Section: Hegemonic Masculinitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Retracted: Masculinities in the Rural and the Agricultural: A Literature Review

Coldwell

2009

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article provides a summary of social science studies at the nexus of masculinity and the rural, particularly the agricultural. These studies began to emerge in the rural social science literature in 1995, when Berit Brandth pioneered the study of masculinities and farming practices in Norway. The studies reviewed here are particularly important as they begin to focus on men and masculinities in the rural and the agricultural, categories that previously had been the assumed, yet invisible subject of rural studies. The studies also link masculinity to farming practices in a number of ways that clearly have implications for the future of farming in terms of ecological crises across social, economic and environmental rural landscapes. The aim of this article is twofold; to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between masculine identities and farming practices and to identify possible theoretical pathways for future research that might assist us to identify and develop more sustainable ways of farming and rural life. S tudies have shown agriculture in Australia and other western nations to be a masculine domain of social practice where men see themselves as the farmers and the name 'farmer' is analogous to the identities and practices of men. In the context of current social, economic and environmental concerns that are perceived to threaten the sustainability of agriculture and many of its rural communities, it therefore seems likely that much of what has taken place historically in the practices of agriculture has a lot to do with men and therefore with masculinity. It follows that the future sustainability of agriculture will also have a lot to do with men and therefore with masculinity. Here, a review of the literature is used as a starting point in attempting to understand current knowledge about the relationships between masculinity and the rural, particularly the agricultural. Such an understanding is able to inform further necessary work in documenting the emerging story of agriculture and its farmers in the context of sustainability.Most current knowledge about masculinity in the rural and the agricultural emerged in discourse analysis from studies organised around the concept of gender as social practice within a framework informed by hegemonic masculinity theory (Campbell et al. 2006). The concept and theory have been used widely in

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Section: Hegemonic Masculinitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Retracted: Masculinities in the Rural and the Agricultural: A Literature Review

Coldwell

2009

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…Whereas hegemonic masculinity espouses a particular male form as that of heterosexuality, dominance, power, authority and legitimacy, subordinate masculinity espouses homosexuality, illegitimacy, femininity, marginalisation and oppression. As noted by Collier (1998), hierarchies that exist between men are structured around the avoidance of being seen as not masculine and of being womanly in terms of being a girl, a puff and a fag. Consequently to be seen as anything other than a normal heterosexual family man is somewhat abnormal and a negative debasement of the male form.…”

Section: Defining Hegemonic and Subordinate Masculinitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Masculinity and Criminology: The Social Construction of Criminal Man

McFarlane

2013

Howard J Crim Justice

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The development of a masculine criminology is something that has been missing from much of the criminological literature. Until recently, there was little consideration given to the concept of masculinity as a tool for understanding men and criminal behaviour. Therefore, this article discusses the relevance of masculinity as a tool for developing our understanding of male criminality with reference to the case of Raoul Moat. The discussion focuses upon the social construction of masculine identity and the relationship that exists between masculinity and criminality as both theoretical and analytical concepts in the study of men and crime.

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“…Collier and numerous other criminologists argue that the construction of the troublesome and dangerous male youth as the prime object of increasingly punitive youth justice policies has been, and continues to be, mediated primarily through class. 98 According to Walkerdine: the way the working-class is created as an object of knowledge is central to the strategies which are used for its creation as a mode of classification . .…”

Section: Exclusions and Youth Justicementioning

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(Re)constructing the Head Teacher: Legal Narratives and the Politics of School Exclusions

Monk¹

2005

Journal of Law and Society

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School exclusions are a site of political and social contestation and in recent years statutory reforms and popular demands have focused on increasing the autonomy of head teachers. This article explores this trend and questions why, in a culture of human and children's rights, head teachers have such extensive powers within their schools and why law has, to a large extent, failed to provide a check on these powers. It does so not by doctrinal analysis of domestic and human rights law but, rather, by enquiring into how legal narratives construct the role of the head teacher and by locating the practice of exclusions within a broader social and political context. It suggests that demanding that the head teacher be unfettered in his or her decisions relating to exclusions ought not to be understood as a policy of ‘non‐intervention’ or a return to a ‘reassuring’ past but, rather, as a contemporary policy that reinforces the construction of excluded pupils as marginalized non‐citizens.

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Masculinities and Crime: Rethinking the “Man Question”?

Cited by 24 publications

References 63 publications

Retracted: Masculinities in the Rural and the Agricultural: A Literature Review

Retracted: Masculinities in the Rural and the Agricultural: A Literature Review

Masculinity and Criminology: The Social Construction of Criminal Man

(Re)constructing the Head Teacher: Legal Narratives and the Politics of School Exclusions

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