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Crafting masculinities: embodying, recuperating and redistributing care in young lives Creando masculinidades: incorporando, recuperando y redistribuyendo el cuidado en las vidas de los jóvenes Creando masculinidades: incorporando, recuperando y redistribuyendo el cuidado en las vidas de los jóvenes

Lookup NU author(s): Carl Bonner-Thompson, Professor Anoop NayakORCiD

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Abstract

© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Research on geographies of care identifies care work as a low-paid, menial and ultimately feminized activity. Much of the work in the field, unsurprisingly, has focused upon the plight of women and how the division of labour produces and sustains gender inequalities. We are interested in how new generations understand gender, work and care and the possibilities for generating heterogeneous, caring masculinities. Using creative methods, we engage young people in a series of critical masculinities workshops through which participants are asked to reflect upon what it means to be a man and materialize these ideas through arts and craft. Our school-based discussions with young people and their artworks reveal how participants place an acute emphasis on the felt, affective and emotional register of caring masculinities. We explore their creative endeavours to critically interrogate care as a gendered concept, interpret its ‘troubled’ relationship to masculinity, and analyse possibilities for future change. Our findings suggest masculine care practices have the potential to challenge and redistribute power across the gender order. However, we further found that hegemonic forms of masculinity could become consolidated and recuperated through caring acts, meaning gender power relations are not easily disrupted simply by men becoming caring.

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Author(s): Bonner-Thompson C, Nayak A

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Social and Cultural Geography

Year: 2022

Volume: 23

Issue: 9

Pages: 1238-1256

Online publication date: 21/04/2021

Acceptance date: 22/01/2021

ISSN (print): 1464-9365

ISSN (electronic): 1470-1197

Publisher: Routledge

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2021.1910993

DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2021.1910993

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