Sofia Aboim
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 250129 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sofia Aboim |
| NOMBRES | Sofia |
| APELLIDO | Aboim |
| FIRMA | ABOIM S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6605-8614 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 194 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The reproductive matrix
From mineworkers to subaltern entrepreneurs
Drawing on long-term fieldwork with two generations of Black migrant men, including former mineworkers and contemporary informal traders, across the Mozambique-South Africa corridor, this paper traces the interplay between racial capitalism and masculinity. Under the colonial–apartheid regime, coerced migration and compound labour shaped masculinities centred on endurance and breadwinning. In the neoliberal era, however, this drive for self-worth…
Liminal transitions
Life course theory often views transitions as a linear progression of normative stages, but this perspective overlooks the fluidity and complexity of social change. In particular, transgender and gender non-conforming identities challenge the assumption that transition unfolds in discrete stages. Drawing on six exemplary cases in Portugal and the United Kingdom, this article highlights the temporal asynchrony, ambiguity and constantly evolving na…
What's in a name?' The discursive construction of gender identity over time
In recent years the concern with gender diversity fuelled by the rapid expansion of transgender studies highlighted multiple possibilities for constructing gender through discursive enactments. As the self-declaration of gender identity gained legitimacy, personal narratives became increasingly relevant. Verbalizing gender identity is instrumental for extending the very notion of gender as belonging to the domain of individual subjectivity and am…
O lugar do corpo. Masculinidades Trans e a materialidade corporal do género
As histórias de vida de pessoas trans-masculinas, embora diversificadas, demonstram que a construção da masculinidade não pode ser entendida fora dos efeitos materiais produzidos no e pelo corpo, dentro de uma ordem de género erigida sobre a masculinidade hegemónica. Confrontados com a centralidade dada ao corpo por indivíduos trans-masculinos em Portugal e no Reino Unido, exploramos as ligações entre masculinidade, incorporação e a materialidade…
What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment
Confronted with the centrality of the body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in the United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central for doing masculinity. Following Connell's early insight that bodies needed to come back to the political and sociological agendas, we propose that bodily-reflexive practice is a concept suited to account for the production of trans-masculinities. Although multiple, the jo…
Migration after empire
Drawing on a qualitative study on migrant men recently arrived in Portugal, this paper examines how the experience of migration leads to the rebuilding of masculinity. The experiences of discrimination and strategies of resistance are linked to the history of Portuguese colonialism and the ways men hailing from contrasting colonial and postcolonial geographies within the Portuguese Empire (Brazil, Mozambique and Cape Verde) discover their subordi…
Gender in a Box? The Paradoxes of Recognition beyond the Gender Binary
The growing visibility of trans and gender-nonconforming individuals paved the way for a novel politics of transgender recognition in the legal sphere and state-governed public policies. Considering that the possibilities for registering multiple genders beyond male or female are taking effect in several countries, this article examines recent developments and claims that recognition is complicit with misrecognition for two main reasons. Firstly,…
Fragmented Recognition
With the growing recognition of transgender individuals, gender identity laws are slowly embracing a paradigm in which self-determination becomes an entitlement. As the possibilities for either abolishing or registering multiple genders now seem politically plausible, this article examines global developments and identifies different legal models of identity recognition via a comparison of the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Nepal. Drawing on Axel …
Hegemonic Masculinity
The concept of hegemonic masculinity is examined in terms of its foundational definitions and theoretical influences, its relevance for the analysis of men, women, and gender relations, its theoretical and empirical revisions and challenges, and transnational and contemporary changes to it, before some brief final comments
Trans-masculinities, embodiments and the materiality of gender
Transsexual and transgender men have had less visibility than other forms of gender variance, thus occupying a relatively narrow space in gender, masculinity or even trans-scholarship. They are neither particularly relevant subjects of masculinity studies nor particularly visible in Trans Studies. Furthermore, the theoretical and political struggles that separate theorization about butch female masculinities and the FtM transitions have contribut…
Masculinidades e Diáspora
A partir de uma análise qualitativa sintética sobre homens imigrantes em Portugal, procura-se destrinçar as maneiras como as identidades migrantes são construídas de forma gendrificada, com diferenças relativas à constituição de comunidades diaspóricas específicas (Brasileiros, Cabo-verdianos e Moçambicanos), com origem em diferentes histórias coloniais e pós-coloniais. Para os homens migrantes, a experiência da alteridade, ainda que permeada por…
From political to social generations
Faced with the confused meanings of the concept of generation, this article defends the need to move from Karl Mannheim's excessive emphasis on political and intellectual self-awareness as a pre-condition for generation formation to an enlarged social and cultural definition of generations. By developing the concept of social generations, we argue that rather than concrete groups, generations are better conceived as discourses with which individu…
Support, social networks and the family in Portugal
This article presents two major surveys, carried out in Portugal, on the inclusion of families and individuals in social networks of support and affinity. The first, dating from 1999, sought comprehensively to reconstruct families' social networks by mapping effective support relations. The second survey, fielded in 2009–10, followed a family configuration perspective which sought to reconstruct individuals' networks of close relationships, and t…
Geographical Mobility and Family Life
Geographical mobility is a well-established trend in European societies, and social theorists have put forward the hypothesis that mobility patterns have an impact on family trajectories and on their processes of pluralisation and individualisation. Using a life course perspective, the main aim of this article is to provide evidence of the impact of geographical mobility on family life in Portuguese society. The mobility and family trajectories o…
Risco e prevenção do HIV/Aids
Com base num inquérito representativo da população portuguesa entre 18 e 65 anos, realizado em 2007, este estudo investiga o impacto de fatores de curso de vida sexual sobre os comportamentos e as percepções do risco entre 3055 homens e mulheres heterossexuais. Através de indicadores relativos ao número, à identidade e à sequência de parceiros sexuais ao longo da vida, identificaram-se vários perfis de biografia sexual, desde formas de sexualidad…
Sexualized bodies
Drawing on ethnographic work carried out among Mozambican men living in Maputo (the capital of Mozambique), this paper intends to describe how subordinate men from a poor background are reconstructing their masculinity through the explicit sexualization of their self. It has been shown that among poor Mozambican men the lack of money or other material goods is compensated by complex practices and a variety of discourses on sex and sexuality. Sexu…
Do público e do privado
Neste texto propomos uma interpretação crítica da dicotomia histórica entre público e privado como dinâmica fundamental da modernidade. A partir de uma perspectiva de género, discutimos as fronteiras construídas entre espaço coletivo de cidadania e de sociabilidade e espaço individual de intimidade e desigualdade. Argumentamos a favor de uma relação de cumplicidade, ainda que tensa, entre as duas esferas, observando que a vida privada foi, em gra…
Redes sociais e comportamento sexual
Com base num inquérito representativo da população portuguesa entre 18 e 65 anos, realizado em 2007, este estudo investiga o impacto de fatores de rede social sobre os comportamentos sexuais dos indivíduos. Através da percepção normativa dos inquiridos sobre a moral sexual dos seus amigos e familiares e de indicadores relativos à caracterização da rede de confidência sexual, tais como o número, a identidade, o gênero, a idade e o comportamento do…
Gender Cultures and the Division of Labour in Contemporary Europe
Drawing on the vast literature concerned with the cultural aspects of gender, this article explores the ways in which individuals living in different national contexts value the ideal of a dual earner/dual carer couple at the expense of the male breadwinner model. Via a comparison of fifteen European countries included in the Family and Gender Roles module of the 2002 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), three attitudinal patterns were i…
Da pluralidade dos afetos
Num contexto em que a construção do casamento como relação de amor adquire hegemonia nas sociedades contemporâneas, trazemos à arena empírica o debate sobre a sentimentalização da conjugalidade e a crescente complexidade promovida pelos processos de individualização. Analisando discursos de mulheres portuguesas vivendo em conjugalidade, descrevemos a pluralidade das orientações amorosas nas conjugalidades atuais. Observamos o entrecruzamento entr…
Men between Worlds
In 2003 Mozambique's parliament approved a new legal code that proposes a 'Western' view of family and gender roles. These changes question the social organization and the symbolic views of gender in Mozambique. We show how men are reconstructing their identities when caught between tradition and male dominance and the Westernized values of the modern equalitarian family. We analyze change at the levels of individual practices and identities and …
Fatherhood, Family and Work in Men's Lives
The main aim of this article is to understand how men living in couples with young children construct their roles and identities as fathers in the context of different types of family functioning. To explore this issue, our analytical framework examines the dynamics of fathering and of family functioning, thereby focusing on the interrelationships between men as fathers, partners and breadwinners. Drawing on data from a qualitative study carried …
Families and Informal Support Networks in Portugal
This article analyses informal support networks in Portugal. Using data from a national survey on families with children (1999), it explores the dynamics of support, in terms of the characteristics of, and variations in, families' experience of support. The analysis underlines the importance of social factors, such as the position of families in social and educational structures, and family variables, such as position in the life course, in deter…
Capital and race
Capital and Race opens with an interrupted conversation. Martin Luther King, Sylvie Laurent reminds us, insisted that the racial question could not be posed without considering capitalism, and was ...
Gender Cultures and the Division of Labour in Contemporary Europe
Drawing on the vast literature concerned with the cultural aspects of gender, this article explores the ways in which individuals living in different national contexts value the ideal of a dual earner/dual carer couple at the expense of the male breadwinner model. Via a comparison of fifteen European countries included in the Family and Gender Roles module of the 2002 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), three attitudinal patterns were i…
Families and Informal Support Networks in Portugal
This article analyses informal support networks in Portugal. Using data from a national survey on families with children (1999), it explores the dynamics of support, in terms of the characteristics of, and variations in, families' experience of support. The analysis underlines the importance of social factors, such as the position of families in social and educational structures, and family variables, such as position in the life course, in deter…
From political to social generations
Faced with the confused meanings of the concept of generation, this article defends the need to move from Karl Mannheim's excessive emphasis on political and intellectual self-awareness as a pre-condition for generation formation to an enlarged social and cultural definition of generations. By developing the concept of social generations, we argue that rather than concrete groups, generations are better conceived as discourses with which individu…
Men between Worlds
In 2003 Mozambique's parliament approved a new legal code that proposes a 'Western' view of family and gender roles. These changes question the social organization and the symbolic views of gender in Mozambique. We show how men are reconstructing their identities when caught between tradition and male dominance and the Westernized values of the modern equalitarian family. We analyze change at the levels of individual practices and identities and …
What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment
Confronted with the centrality of the body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in the United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central for doing masculinity. Following Connell's early insight that bodies needed to come back to the political and sociological agendas, we propose that bodily-reflexive practice is a concept suited to account for the production of trans-masculinities. Although multiple, the jo…
Do público e do privado
Neste texto propomos uma interpretação crítica da dicotomia histórica entre público e privado como dinâmica fundamental da modernidade. A partir de uma perspectiva de género, discutimos as fronteiras construídas entre espaço coletivo de cidadania e de sociabilidade e espaço individual de intimidade e desigualdade. Argumentamos a favor de uma relação de cumplicidade, ainda que tensa, entre as duas esferas, observando que a vida privada foi, em gra…
Gender in a Box? The Paradoxes of Recognition beyond the Gender Binary
The growing visibility of trans and gender-nonconforming individuals paved the way for a novel politics of transgender recognition in the legal sphere and state-governed public policies. Considering that the possibilities for registering multiple genders beyond male or female are taking effect in several countries, this article examines recent developments and claims that recognition is complicit with misrecognition for two main reasons. Firstly,…
Support, social networks and the family in Portugal
This article presents two major surveys, carried out in Portugal, on the inclusion of families and individuals in social networks of support and affinity. The first, dating from 1999, sought comprehensively to reconstruct families' social networks by mapping effective support relations. The second survey, fielded in 2009–10, followed a family configuration perspective which sought to reconstruct individuals' networks of close relationships, and t…
Da pluralidade dos afetos
Num contexto em que a construção do casamento como relação de amor adquire hegemonia nas sociedades contemporâneas, trazemos à arena empírica o debate sobre a sentimentalização da conjugalidade e a crescente complexidade promovida pelos processos de individualização. Analisando discursos de mulheres portuguesas vivendo em conjugalidade, descrevemos a pluralidade das orientações amorosas nas conjugalidades atuais. Observamos o entrecruzamento entr…
Fragmented Recognition
With the growing recognition of transgender individuals, gender identity laws are slowly embracing a paradigm in which self-determination becomes an entitlement. As the possibilities for either abolishing or registering multiple genders now seem politically plausible, this article examines global developments and identifies different legal models of identity recognition via a comparison of the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Nepal. Drawing on Axel …
Redes sociais e comportamento sexual
Com base num inquérito representativo da população portuguesa entre 18 e 65 anos, realizado em 2007, este estudo investiga o impacto de fatores de rede social sobre os comportamentos sexuais dos indivíduos. Através da percepção normativa dos inquiridos sobre a moral sexual dos seus amigos e familiares e de indicadores relativos à caracterização da rede de confidência sexual, tais como o número, a identidade, o gênero, a idade e o comportamento do…
Trans-masculinities, embodiments and the materiality of gender
Transsexual and transgender men have had less visibility than other forms of gender variance, thus occupying a relatively narrow space in gender, masculinity or even trans-scholarship. They are neither particularly relevant subjects of masculinity studies nor particularly visible in Trans Studies. Furthermore, the theoretical and political struggles that separate theorization about butch female masculinities and the FtM transitions have contribut…
Fatherhood, Family and Work in Men's Lives
The main aim of this article is to understand how men living in couples with young children construct their roles and identities as fathers in the context of different types of family functioning. To explore this issue, our analytical framework examines the dynamics of fathering and of family functioning, thereby focusing on the interrelationships between men as fathers, partners and breadwinners. Drawing on data from a qualitative study carried …
Migration after empire
Drawing on a qualitative study on migrant men recently arrived in Portugal, this paper examines how the experience of migration leads to the rebuilding of masculinity. The experiences of discrimination and strategies of resistance are linked to the history of Portuguese colonialism and the ways men hailing from contrasting colonial and postcolonial geographies within the Portuguese Empire (Brazil, Mozambique and Cape Verde) discover their subordi…
Hegemonic Masculinity
The concept of hegemonic masculinity is examined in terms of its foundational definitions and theoretical influences, its relevance for the analysis of men, women, and gender relations, its theoretical and empirical revisions and challenges, and transnational and contemporary changes to it, before some brief final comments
Geographical Mobility and Family Life
Geographical mobility is a well-established trend in European societies, and social theorists have put forward the hypothesis that mobility patterns have an impact on family trajectories and on their processes of pluralisation and individualisation. Using a life course perspective, the main aim of this article is to provide evidence of the impact of geographical mobility on family life in Portuguese society. The mobility and family trajectories o…
What's in a name?' The discursive construction of gender identity over time
In recent years the concern with gender diversity fuelled by the rapid expansion of transgender studies highlighted multiple possibilities for constructing gender through discursive enactments. As the self-declaration of gender identity gained legitimacy, personal narratives became increasingly relevant. Verbalizing gender identity is instrumental for extending the very notion of gender as belonging to the domain of individual subjectivity and am…
O lugar do corpo. Masculinidades Trans e a materialidade corporal do género
As histórias de vida de pessoas trans-masculinas, embora diversificadas, demonstram que a construção da masculinidade não pode ser entendida fora dos efeitos materiais produzidos no e pelo corpo, dentro de uma ordem de género erigida sobre a masculinidade hegemónica. Confrontados com a centralidade dada ao corpo por indivíduos trans-masculinos em Portugal e no Reino Unido, exploramos as ligações entre masculinidade, incorporação e a materialidade…
Sexualized bodies
Drawing on ethnographic work carried out among Mozambican men living in Maputo (the capital of Mozambique), this paper intends to describe how subordinate men from a poor background are reconstructing their masculinity through the explicit sexualization of their self. It has been shown that among poor Mozambican men the lack of money or other material goods is compensated by complex practices and a variety of discourses on sex and sexuality. Sexu…
Families and Informal Support Networks in Portugal
This article analyses informal support networks in Portugal. Using data from a national survey on families with children (1999), it explores the dynamics of support, in terms of the characteristics of, and variations in, families' experience of support. The analysis underlines the importance of social factors, such as the position of families in social and educational structures, and family variables, such as position in the life course, in deter…
Fatherhood, Family and Work in Men's Lives
The main aim of this article is to understand how men living in couples with young children construct their roles and identities as fathers in the context of different types of family functioning. To explore this issue, our analytical framework examines the dynamics of fathering and of family functioning, thereby focusing on the interrelationships between men as fathers, partners and breadwinners. Drawing on data from a qualitative study carried …
Da pluralidade dos afetos
Num contexto em que a construção do casamento como relação de amor adquire hegemonia nas sociedades contemporâneas, trazemos à arena empírica o debate sobre a sentimentalização da conjugalidade e a crescente complexidade promovida pelos processos de individualização. Analisando discursos de mulheres portuguesas vivendo em conjugalidade, descrevemos a pluralidade das orientações amorosas nas conjugalidades atuais. Observamos o entrecruzamento entr…
Men between Worlds
In 2003 Mozambique's parliament approved a new legal code that proposes a 'Western' view of family and gender roles. These changes question the social organization and the symbolic views of gender in Mozambique. We show how men are reconstructing their identities when caught between tradition and male dominance and the Westernized values of the modern equalitarian family. We analyze change at the levels of individual practices and identities and …
Gender Cultures and the Division of Labour in Contemporary Europe
Drawing on the vast literature concerned with the cultural aspects of gender, this article explores the ways in which individuals living in different national contexts value the ideal of a dual earner/dual carer couple at the expense of the male breadwinner model. Via a comparison of fifteen European countries included in the Family and Gender Roles module of the 2002 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), three attitudinal patterns were i…
Redes sociais e comportamento sexual
Com base num inquérito representativo da população portuguesa entre 18 e 65 anos, realizado em 2007, este estudo investiga o impacto de fatores de rede social sobre os comportamentos sexuais dos indivíduos. Através da percepção normativa dos inquiridos sobre a moral sexual dos seus amigos e familiares e de indicadores relativos à caracterização da rede de confidência sexual, tais como o número, a identidade, o gênero, a idade e o comportamento do…
Risco e prevenção do HIV/Aids
Com base num inquérito representativo da população portuguesa entre 18 e 65 anos, realizado em 2007, este estudo investiga o impacto de fatores de curso de vida sexual sobre os comportamentos e as percepções do risco entre 3055 homens e mulheres heterossexuais. Através de indicadores relativos ao número, à identidade e à sequência de parceiros sexuais ao longo da vida, identificaram-se vários perfis de biografia sexual, desde formas de sexualidad…
Sexualized bodies
Drawing on ethnographic work carried out among Mozambican men living in Maputo (the capital of Mozambique), this paper intends to describe how subordinate men from a poor background are reconstructing their masculinity through the explicit sexualization of their self. It has been shown that among poor Mozambican men the lack of money or other material goods is compensated by complex practices and a variety of discourses on sex and sexuality. Sexu…
Do público e do privado
Neste texto propomos uma interpretação crítica da dicotomia histórica entre público e privado como dinâmica fundamental da modernidade. A partir de uma perspectiva de género, discutimos as fronteiras construídas entre espaço coletivo de cidadania e de sociabilidade e espaço individual de intimidade e desigualdade. Argumentamos a favor de uma relação de cumplicidade, ainda que tensa, entre as duas esferas, observando que a vida privada foi, em gra…
Support, social networks and the family in Portugal
This article presents two major surveys, carried out in Portugal, on the inclusion of families and individuals in social networks of support and affinity. The first, dating from 1999, sought comprehensively to reconstruct families' social networks by mapping effective support relations. The second survey, fielded in 2009–10, followed a family configuration perspective which sought to reconstruct individuals' networks of close relationships, and t…
Geographical Mobility and Family Life
Geographical mobility is a well-established trend in European societies, and social theorists have put forward the hypothesis that mobility patterns have an impact on family trajectories and on their processes of pluralisation and individualisation. Using a life course perspective, the main aim of this article is to provide evidence of the impact of geographical mobility on family life in Portuguese society. The mobility and family trajectories o…
From political to social generations
Faced with the confused meanings of the concept of generation, this article defends the need to move from Karl Mannheim's excessive emphasis on political and intellectual self-awareness as a pre-condition for generation formation to an enlarged social and cultural definition of generations. By developing the concept of social generations, we argue that rather than concrete groups, generations are better conceived as discourses with which individu…
Hegemonic Masculinity
The concept of hegemonic masculinity is examined in terms of its foundational definitions and theoretical influences, its relevance for the analysis of men, women, and gender relations, its theoretical and empirical revisions and challenges, and transnational and contemporary changes to it, before some brief final comments
Trans-masculinities, embodiments and the materiality of gender
Transsexual and transgender men have had less visibility than other forms of gender variance, thus occupying a relatively narrow space in gender, masculinity or even trans-scholarship. They are neither particularly relevant subjects of masculinity studies nor particularly visible in Trans Studies. Furthermore, the theoretical and political struggles that separate theorization about butch female masculinities and the FtM transitions have contribut…
Masculinidades e Diáspora
A partir de uma análise qualitativa sintética sobre homens imigrantes em Portugal, procura-se destrinçar as maneiras como as identidades migrantes são construídas de forma gendrificada, com diferenças relativas à constituição de comunidades diaspóricas específicas (Brasileiros, Cabo-verdianos e Moçambicanos), com origem em diferentes histórias coloniais e pós-coloniais. Para os homens migrantes, a experiência da alteridade, ainda que permeada por…
Gender in a Box? The Paradoxes of Recognition beyond the Gender Binary
The growing visibility of trans and gender-nonconforming individuals paved the way for a novel politics of transgender recognition in the legal sphere and state-governed public policies. Considering that the possibilities for registering multiple genders beyond male or female are taking effect in several countries, this article examines recent developments and claims that recognition is complicit with misrecognition for two main reasons. Firstly,…
Fragmented Recognition
With the growing recognition of transgender individuals, gender identity laws are slowly embracing a paradigm in which self-determination becomes an entitlement. As the possibilities for either abolishing or registering multiple genders now seem politically plausible, this article examines global developments and identifies different legal models of identity recognition via a comparison of the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Nepal. Drawing on Axel …
Migration after empire
Drawing on a qualitative study on migrant men recently arrived in Portugal, this paper examines how the experience of migration leads to the rebuilding of masculinity. The experiences of discrimination and strategies of resistance are linked to the history of Portuguese colonialism and the ways men hailing from contrasting colonial and postcolonial geographies within the Portuguese Empire (Brazil, Mozambique and Cape Verde) discover their subordi…
O lugar do corpo. Masculinidades Trans e a materialidade corporal do género
As histórias de vida de pessoas trans-masculinas, embora diversificadas, demonstram que a construção da masculinidade não pode ser entendida fora dos efeitos materiais produzidos no e pelo corpo, dentro de uma ordem de género erigida sobre a masculinidade hegemónica. Confrontados com a centralidade dada ao corpo por indivíduos trans-masculinos em Portugal e no Reino Unido, exploramos as ligações entre masculinidade, incorporação e a materialidade…
What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment
Confronted with the centrality of the body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in the United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central for doing masculinity. Following Connell's early insight that bodies needed to come back to the political and sociological agendas, we propose that bodily-reflexive practice is a concept suited to account for the production of trans-masculinities. Although multiple, the jo…
What's in a name?' The discursive construction of gender identity over time
In recent years the concern with gender diversity fuelled by the rapid expansion of transgender studies highlighted multiple possibilities for constructing gender through discursive enactments. As the self-declaration of gender identity gained legitimacy, personal narratives became increasingly relevant. Verbalizing gender identity is instrumental for extending the very notion of gender as belonging to the domain of individual subjectivity and am…
Capital and race
Capital and Race opens with an interrupted conversation. Martin Luther King, Sylvie Laurent reminds us, insisted that the racial question could not be posed without considering capitalism, and was ...
Liminal transitions
Life course theory often views transitions as a linear progression of normative stages, but this perspective overlooks the fluidity and complexity of social change. In particular, transgender and gender non-conforming identities challenge the assumption that transition unfolds in discrete stages. Drawing on six exemplary cases in Portugal and the United Kingdom, this article highlights the temporal asynchrony, ambiguity and constantly evolving na…
The reproductive matrix
From mineworkers to subaltern entrepreneurs
Drawing on long-term fieldwork with two generations of Black migrant men, including former mineworkers and contemporary informal traders, across the Mozambique-South Africa corridor, this paper traces the interplay between racial capitalism and masculinity. Under the colonial–apartheid regime, coerced migration and compound labour shaped masculinities centred on endurance and breadwinning. In the neoliberal era, however, this drive for self-worth…
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