Soldiers, Masculinities, and Violence

Maringira, Godfrey

doi:10.1086/711687

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“…While there is important emerging work on masculinities as the perpetrators of violence (R. Brian Ferguson 2021; Maringira 2021), the scholarship on trans men and trans masculinities implores us to consider men and trans men as victims of state and everyday violence (Açıksöz 2020; Halberstam 2005). Cultural theorist C. Riley Snorton and sociologist Jin Haritaworn (2013) illustrate the frequent and commonplace material and corporeal violence against trans communities.…”

Section: Queering Masculinitiesmentioning

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Masculinities

Thangaraj

2022

Feminist Anthropology

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The study of masculinities is a recent growing field in Anthropology. Within this growing subfield, one must be careful to study masculinities within wide circuits of power. By examining masculinities instead of masculinity, I center the social context and multiplicities necessary to ethnographically chart masculinities without falling into the trap of just centering male bodies and only the social practices of men. Masculinities must be understood in relation to colonialism, postcolonialism, imperialism, racism, heterosexism, and heteronormativity. Black feminist theory, women of color feminism, Third World feminism, and queer of color critique provide important theoretical tools in ethnographic research to decipher power and can destabilize singular, hegemonic Western epistemologies about masculinity. Through such a theoretical engagement, I showcase the complexity, multiplicity, and contradictions in the performance of masculinities in the global South, in queer of color communities, in Indigenous communities, and across various institutions in social life.Keywords global South masculinities, queer and trans masculinities, masculinities of color, queer of color critique, Black feminism, women of color feminism 1 I intentionally pluralize masculinities to showcase the heterogeneity, multiplicity, and hybridity within the category (Lowe 1996). I use the singular form masculinity in various places to signal its representation in essentialized ways in some social contexts.

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Section: Queering Masculinitiesmentioning

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Masculinities

Thangaraj

2022

Feminist Anthropology

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“…In small-scale societies, there needs to be socialization and learning (think boot camp and male rites of passage) as well as cultural sanctions to normalize the violence in which males participate (Maringira 2021). Along with this there is generally the development of culturally specific rules and regulations about how raiding, warfare, and other violent practices are to be carried out in small-scale societies.…”

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Violence and Masculinity in Small-Scale Societies

Martin¹

2021

Current Anthropology

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Archaeological and ethnographic accounts of violence in small-scale societies represent a baseline for thinking about the ways that violence and masculinity originated and evolved, becoming entwined social processes. Male violence (lethal and nonlethal) is expressed in diverse and complex ways because it is associated with social spheres of power and influence, and it is embedded within ideologies, histories, and collective memories. Applying anthropological research on violence as a generative and transformational social process demonstrates how violence plays a key role in creating, maintaining, and transforming social structures in small-scale societies. The reinterpretation of massacre sites in the ancient Southwestern United States in terms of social ideologies and beliefs offers an important counterbalance to earlier work that portrayed violence as the result of environmental stressors and/or cultural crises. Using an interpretive (poetics) approach that focuses on the ritualized aspects of male violence provides rich insights into the social processes governing the cultural logic that normalizes and institutionalizes violence.

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“Why Do People Hate You, Mommy?” Militarized Masculinities and Women in Postwar Kosovar Politics

Balbon

2023

Journal of Women, Politics & Policy

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Soldiers, Masculinities, and Violence

Cited by 13 publications

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Violence and Masculinity in Small-Scale Societies

“Why Do People Hate You, Mommy?” Militarized Masculinities and Women in Postwar Kosovar Politics

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