Friendship and Fandom

Ethnicity, power and gendering readings of the popular

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2928958
AutoresAli (0000-0002-8616-0376, autor de correspondencia), Suki Ali
Año2002
Volumen23
Número2
Páginas153-165
Fecha de publicación2002-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0159630022000000741
OpenAlexW2000880222
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas9

This paper explores the relationships between knowledge of popular culture and power negotiations among young children's friendship groups and derives from a research project on the identity formations of 'mixed race' children. The paper begins with a consideration of existing work on music, ethnicity and cultural identities and how this is implicated in formations of 'imagined communities' (Anderson, 1991, Imagined Communities , Verso). Next, I look at the ways in which this work has been gendered with particular reference to the female music 'fan'. Throughout I use data from my research to show how the children engaged in friendship/power relationships that challenge much of this material. The paper centralises the way readings are used by friends in processes that are implicated in en/gendering identities and identifications - how likes and dislikes are mobilised differently among children who are becoming 'boys' and 'girls' who are friends, through use of the love/loathe discourses. The allegiance work is saturated with and constitutive of relations of power/knowledge which are both painful and pleasurable for children who are differently positioned within networks of learning and cultural expertise

Aesthetics · Allegiance · Art · Ethnic group · Friendship · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology · Social Psychology