The violence of the masculine ideal: A case for nomadic masculinities
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
| Field | Value | |
| Title | The violence of the masculine ideal: A case for nomadic masculinities | |
| Creator | Dube, Siphiwe I. | |
| Description | In this article, I argue that a different kind of discourse on Christian masculinities in post-apartheid South Africa is possible despite the prevalence of largely idealised and politically conservative ideologies of masculinities promoted primarily through the public and private performance of violent masculinities. Drawing on a redacted critique of current prevalent discourses of transformation in critical masculinities studies such as alternatives masculinities, hegemonic masculinities, liberated masculinities and toxic masculinities, I underscore how these discourses are limited in their thinking on masculinities in general as they presume the ideal of what a liberated man should be like. Specifically, I argue that idealised masculine ideals, even in their liberatory forms, eschew mobility and fluidity and, therefore, end up restricting the possibility for transformative action. I propose, instead, that we reinscribe discourses of Christian masculinities with the notion of nomadic subjectivity, espoused by Rosi Braidotti, as a form of transpositional praxis of being in order to expand our linguistic repertoire of transformative masculinities. Such a shift in focus, as I demonstrate, has the propensity to aid us in constructing and implementing creative and imaginative programmes of engaging men in rethinking scripts of masculinities. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2018-09-13 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/hts.v74i2.4935 | |
| Source | HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 74, No 2 (2018); 9 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422 | |
| Language | eng | |
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