New Masculinities, Are they Truly New? (2024)

The tradition of drinking and dying: Gender, alcohol consumption, and violence in San Andrés cholula, Puebla

2024

This ethnographic research examines practices related to alcohol consumption in the traditional area of San Andrés Cholula, namely, in the region comprised of the eight neighborhoods participating in the "cargo system," a religious and socio-spatial institution responsible for organizing ecclesiastical festivities. Using anthropological fieldwork as the research methodology, it observes how male alcoholization, shielded by popular religiosity and supported by local authorities, institutionalizes gender practices that legitimize violence. These practices, veiled under the guise of "traditions," act to the detriment of the living conditions of local women. In this context, the lens of postcolonial feminism enables the understanding of women's responses and actions in the face of impositions and demands from the local gender regime.

Masculinities in the continuum of violence in Latin America

The Measure of a Man: Young Male, Interpersonal Violence and Construction of Masculinities An Ethnographic Study from Lima, Peru

2010

Men are the main perpetrators and victims of violence worldwide. Previous studies show that violent behaviour is related –to ideas of masculinity. However research on “gender-based violence” typically focuses on violence between men and women, paying less attention to acts of violence between men. To address this research gap I conducted a cross-sectional, ethnographic study in an urban-deprived area of Lima, Peru. The study aims to understand the interrelationships between interpersonal violence and the construction of masculinities among young men living in a context of structural and symbolic violence, stigma and exclusion. I examine the interaction of structural and individual-level factors in the reproduction of violence by placing the “construction of masculinities” approach at the centre of the analysis. In this thesis I propose that violence between men is a form of gender-based violence that offers young men a short cut to achieving masculinity mandates prevalent in their m...

Stories of Masculinity and Violence of Male Homicide Perpetrators in Argentina

Gender-Based Violence in the Global South, 2024

The connection between homicide, meanings of violence, and biographies of perpetrators have been central in the development of a wide range of sociological, anthropological and criminological theories (Collins 2009; R. P. Dobash and Dobash 2020; Riches 1986). Central topics in understanding how violent deaths, narratives and social structures are intertwined include the way perpetrators understand violent acts, the way perpetrators experience violent acts, and their lives prior to the violent events. This chapter focuses on the life stories of men who have intentionally killed other men in the context of fights or quarrels in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A series of guiding questions structure this chapter: how is violence and more specifically lethal violence seen and accounted for by these men? What biographical indexes are presented by them? How are these events related to their lived experiences, self-presentations, and notions of violence? In the context of a broader socio-anthropological project on homicide, the objective of this chapter is to analyse, from a hermeneutic biographical approach, the violence legitimisation processes of men who have committed homicide of other men in the context of a fight or quarrel (homicidio en el context de una riña) in Buenos Aires. In the Argentinian context, the crime of killing is categorised into two broad categories by the Penal Code (Law 11.179)1: intentional homicide (homicidio doloso) and unintentional homicide (homicidio culposo). These two legal concepts are structured according to the intentionality and willingness of the perpetrators. This chapter focuses on the first specific form of killing that occurs in the context of a fight or quarrel among men. The choice to focus on this type of homicide derives from an analytical interest in exploring situations where violence was performed as a means of dealing with interpersonal conflicts (excluding, for instance, homicides occurring during robberies). This specific performance of violence is key to understanding the generalised pattern of physical abuse between men. This chapter is divided into six parts. The following section briefly reviews literature focused on homicide perpetrators and illustrates a gap in the understanding of life stories from the men’s own perspectives. The third section describes the methodology employed to reconstruct life stories of men who committed intentional homicide and highlights the hermeneutic and narrative perspective to construct the data. In the fourth section, the life stories of two cases (Juan and Martín) are presented to illustrate how violence is conceived and normalised as a legitimate interactional resource. In the fifth section, the life stories of these two cases are analysed in the context of the broader sample of this study to indicate the underlying moral patterns found. Specifically, they are analysed with regard to masculine norms and contact with public institutions. In the last section, the conclusions are presented related to three aspects: their notions of violence, the link between violence and masculine achievement, and the meanings conveyed to institutions regarding problem resolution and intervention. Recommendations for violence prevention strategies are given based on this research, the connection between the biographical understanding of homicide perpetration and the Sustainable Development Goals are emphasised and methodological limitations of this study are mentioned.

Violent masculinities: Gendered dynamics of policing in Rio de Janeiro

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, 2021

Historically, policing in Rio de Janeiro has been shaped by the equation of racialized violence and masculinity. Attempts to reform the police have paradoxically drawn on forms of male violence that are centered on the rational and professional use of force and on "softer" practices, such as dialogue and collaboration, symbolically coded as feminine. The failure of police reform reflects the cultural salience of understandings of masculinity centered around violence within the police, historical patterns of policing in Rio, and political actors' strategic cultivation of male violence. Through Rio de Janeiro's failed attempt at police reform, we theorize the relation between racialized state violence, authoritarian political projects, and transgressive forms of male violence, arguing that an important appeal of authoritarianism lies in its promise to carve out a space for performing what we call wild masculinity.

How Masculinity Becomes a Weapon | TEDx Port of Spain

TEDxPort-of-Spain, 2019

Trinidad and Tobago is one of the most violent nations in the Caribbean and Latin America region. In response to the increasing homicides and gun crimes, the state has developed programmes that emphasise securitisation without meaningful incorporation of strategies to transform social and gender inequalities. Analyses of crime and violence as well as peace-building programmes and projects, ignore the role of patriarchal notions of manhood, namely, toxic masculinity, and its intersections with social exclusion that perpetuate violence in communities. The challenge for a ‘future Caribbean’ is to redefine received meanings of our social identities for which masculinity and social exclusion require urgent attention.

Discours sur les femmes battues : représentations de la violence sur les femmes au Rio Grande do Sul

1988

La these se compose de deux parties. Dans la premiere est analysee la trajectoire du mouvement feministe bresilien, et plus particulierement celui de Porto Alegre, entre les annees 1975 et 1985. Axee sur le courant qui a choisi de combattre la violence contre les femmes et qui a cree les services Sos Mulher, cette partie porte sur le discours construit par ce courant qui privilegie la violence conjugale au detriment d'autres sortes de violence dont sont victimes les femmes au Bresil. Elle analyse egalement la recuperation de ce mouvement par l'etat qui cree les commissariats pour les femmes, a partir de l'emergence de la nouvelle republique. Situant la violence conjugale dans le contexte historique et culturel de l'etat de rio grande do Sul, la seconde partie analyse les roles attribues aux sexes dans la societe guerriere traditionnelle et les representations populaires actuelles de la violence contre les femmes. Ensuite sont mises en relief differentes representatio...

Smith, Jennifer. Violence and Hegemonic Masculinity in Historias del Kronen, El Bola, and Te doy mis ojos

Prisma Social, 2014

(Review) Gender and Violence in Spanish Culture

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture, 2021

LEMAITRE RIPOLL, J., 'Violence', en: Cristina Motta y Macarena Saez, editoras, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America - Cases and Decisions, Editorial Springer, Nueva York y Londres, (2013).