Mairtin Mac An Ghaill
Biographic Data
| ID | 244255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mairtin Mac An Ghaill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mairtin Mac An |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghaill |
| SIGNATURE | GHAILL M M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newman University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5713-3109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 297 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Post-masculinity and reframing multi-layered boyness
The sociology of critical diasporan epistemology
This article engages with a critical moment in the lives of the post-war generation of Irish immigrants - their vanishing from the British social and cultural map. Across the state, academy and popular culture, portrayals of the Irish are discursively represented as contingent upon a pervasive containing category of the black-white dualism and an accompanying power relations of oppression and dominance oppositional racial logic. In response to th…
Definition and characteristic features of a ‘cultural flashpoint’
The concept ‘cultural flashpoint’ (CF) has not been fully defined or described. The authors test this concept through the prism of a controversial gender-focused Irish school programme, Exploring Masculinities (EM). Adopting an instrumental case study methodology, they use media content analysis to develop a temporal trajectory of the CF, describe its shape, explicit and implied contentious themes, and its process. They identify characteristic fe…
State containment and closure of gendered possibilities among a millennial generation
Within a British context, the South Asian Muslim community is currently a significant media spectacle with a millennial generation of British-born young men inhabiting public personae that officially are perceived as being a 'suspect community'. An epistemological assumption of this perception appears to be that religion is the dominant and exclusive social category shaping their behaviour. Using qualitative research that synthesizes postcolonial…
Ethnography, methodological autonomy and self-representational space
Within British schools over the last few decades, we have witnessed a policy move from multi-culturalism to counter-radicalization. In response, this article examines an ethnographic project that illustrates both the relative autonomy of methodology from broader theoretical and substantive questions, as well as the internal creative logic of methodology grounded in the research process. Importantly, the research participants claimed, in contrast …
The pursuit of ‘the good life’
Within the social imaginary of Australia’s dominant ‘White’ culture, ethnic minority men, particularly Muslim men, are often depicted as ‘folk devils,’ resistant to the cultural norms of mainstream society. Muslim masculinities have been problematically conflated with notions of radicalisation, terrorism and violent extremism. There has been decidedly less attention to Muslim men’s acclimatisation to the secular mainstream. This article presents …
The British State’s production of the Muslim School
Recently, national populist politics has been translated with the emergence of two overlapping narratives of Islamophobia and anti‐EU immigration media discourses. Such discourses have been made highly visible in the increased spike in hate crimes that have been a hidden cost of the national(ist) debate about Britain leaving the European Union (Brexit). This is the context in which we can trace a remarkable shift in the state representation of th…
Shifting discourses from boy preference to boy crisis
It is well established that China has emerged as a major economic power, resulting from the nation’s neoliberal modernization. What is less understood is the socio-cultural and educational impact of this change on public institutions. This article focuses on the education system, which is currently seen as central to delivering the nation’s modernization project, particularly through suzhi jiaoyu (education for quality). More specifically, we eng…
Performance and surveillance in an era of austerity
The last 15 years have seen a remarkable shift in the educational representation of British-born Muslim young men. In the media-led reclassification of them, from South Asian to Muslim, they have moved from ideal student to potential jihadist. This article draws upon a three-year ethnographic study with young Muslim men located within the West Midlands. A shared emphasis on structural issues across critical theoretical frameworks on neoliberalism…
East Asian Men
The Cultural (Re)production of Masculinities
In Asian societies, the framing of contemporary masculinities and femininities remains under-theorised. This article critically examines the interplay between schooling, Indonesian Chinese ethnicity and the (re)production of male entrepreneurial masculinities manifested in teenage boys’ sexual/gender subjectivities and identity formation. The qualitative data obtained from an anonymous Chinese-Christian majority international school in Indonesia’…
Higher education, de-centred subjectivities and the emergence of a pedagogical self among Black and Muslim students
This article explores late modern Black and Muslim young men’s and women’s experiences of higher education. Carrying out qualitative research with 14 male and female young people, these students claimed that their Youth and Community Work course at their university made available an alternative representational space, enabling them to develop a major transformation of their sense of identity and self. In deploying the term pedagogical self, we ar…
Student–parent attitudes toward Filipino migrant teachers in Indonesia
Using ethnographic data gleaned from a foreign-managed Christian school in Indonesia, this article situates the ethnic prejudices of Indonesian Chinese parents and students toward Filipino teachers within the organizational and cultural politics of private schooling. It is argued that the commoditization of education as a form of market consumption alongside the masculinized international curriculum help shape the feminization of teachers from th…
The postcolonial ambiguities of Eurasian pan-ethnicity in Singapore
There is a need to critically address the latent conceptual ambiguities in the pan-ethnic Eurasian label, and how it functions within the Singapore nation state’s ethno-racial regimes of representation. In response, this paper provides conceptual clarity by discussing the reaches and limits of this term as a floating signifier, as well as how it can be better operationalized as a modality of research. As a prelude to calling for a departure from …
British-Born Pakistani and Bangladeshi Young Men
Much recent academic work on making sense of the changing public profile of the Muslim community in Britain operates within an explanatory framework that assumes a shift from ethnicity to religion and an accompanying shift from racialization to Islamophobia. A key limitation of this work, often grounded in media representations, is that it tends to be disconnected from contemporary lived social relations. In response, this paper critically engage…
Exploring detraditionalisation through gender reflexivity in late modernity
This article maps out gendered practices among Taiwanese (younger) professional men, examining how they make sense of their gendered identities through local traditions and cultural practices, such as kin values and filial responsibilities. Although existing literature suggests that late modernity is marked by a decline in tradition, such claims are often under-theorised, with little connection to lived experience. Drawing on qualitative research…
Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men
This article explores Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men’s experiences of schooling to examine what inclusion/exclusion means to them. Qualitative research was undertaken with 48 Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men living in areas of the West Midlands, England. The young men highlighted three key areas: the emergence of a schooling regime operating through neo-liberal principles, the recognition of class difference between themselves and teacher…
Chinese Male Peasant Workers and Shifting Masculine Identities in Urban Workspaces
A key feature of China's internal rural–urban migration is the transformation of work from a rural‐based agricultural sector to urban‐based industrial and service sectors. This article critically examines the interplay between urban work and accompanying social relations in the workplace (that is, service and low‐skilled manual jobs) and the (re)construction of male peasant workers' subjectivities and identity formation. The qualitative data from…
What's next for masculinity?’ Reflexive directions for theory and research on masculinity and education
Research on masculinity has become an important area of gender and education that includes a wide range of empirical concerns and theoretical approaches. This article identifies a number of studies that are asking questions about the conceptual usefulness of masculinity within educational contexts. The first section explores how educational researchers are beginning to suggest alternative ways that hegemonic masculinity may be configured. The sec…
Understanding boys
Schooling, masculinity and class analysis
The retreat from social class within the sociology of education has been accompanied by the intensification of socio-economic and cultural inequalities. This paper seeks to draw upon cultural analyses of social class by addressing a classificatory shift of white English working-class males, who have moved from an ascribed primary socio-economic status to an embodied aesthetic performance. We examine the reconfiguration of social class within stat…
Nothing to write home about
This article critically engages with the concepts of home, nationality and belonging by evaluating explanations of (e)migration of mid-20th century Irish working class men. We do this by suggesting that contemporary approaches to Irish (e)migration employ 'containing' categories that frame the possibilities of knowing and understanding. We problematize such approaches by examining notions of home/homelessness and the ambivalent racialization of t…
The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Gender & Education
The promise of post-structuralist methodology
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable explosion of knowledges across the academy, media and political discourse, generating a wide range of representations of men and masculinity. In this paper, we interrogate the failure for an accompanying understanding of the epistemological and methodological implications of the research process in this area of inquiry. More specifically, the paper is located within a particular arena: the schooling of m…
Migrating Masculinities
What's next for masculinity?’ Reflexive directions for theory and research on masculinity and education
Research on masculinity has become an important area of gender and education that includes a wide range of empirical concerns and theoretical approaches. This article identifies a number of studies that are asking questions about the conceptual usefulness of masculinity within educational contexts. The first section explores how educational researchers are beginning to suggest alternative ways that hegemonic masculinity may be configured. The sec…
Schooling, Sexuality and Male Power
In England economic and political imperatives are forcing sociology to retreat from the educational map, which is overladen with the ubiquitous rhetoric of managing the 1988 Education Reform Act. Progressive local education authority curriculum policies are under continuing threat from central government. Against this background, this qualitative study sets out to explore the interrelationship between masculinity and schooling. The particular foc…
Understanding boys
Boys and Girls Come Out to Play
This article is based on the ethnographic study of children's play at break time in two contrasting primary schools in north London. Play in the two schools was differently gendered, at least partly because of the different organization of the playground. The article will argue that children will use the means available to them to construct gender in their playgrounds and that this will frequently involve the reproduction of hegemonic cultural id…
Deconstructing Heterosexualities within School Arenas
This paper explores the continuing silence around the issue of sexuality within English schools. It is suggested that we are only beginning to understand the complex articulation between schooling, young people's cultural formations and sexual/gender identity formation. More specifically the paper argues that there is a need critically to examine dominant forms of heterosexualities. There is an exploration of recent empirical and theoretical work…
What about the Boys
Currently there is growing professional concern in education about 'boys' schooling underachievement'. At the same time, popular representations are emerging in the media that position boys as the new victims of institutional gender discrimination. Implicit in these accounts is the notion of fixed gender categories for girls and boys that are in the process of changing. In contrast, recent feminist research on schooling has shown the limits of ea…
Sociology of Education, State Schooling and Social Class
This paper is concerned with the interrelationship between sociology of education, state schooling and social class. It is suggested that we need to move beyond critiques of the New Right hegemony and begin critically to explore social democratic alternatives. In the paper there is an examination of the ‘old sociology of education’ and inequality and its take‐up by policy‐makers. Social class was of central explanatory value in these early social…
British-Born Pakistani and Bangladeshi Young Men
Much recent academic work on making sense of the changing public profile of the Muslim community in Britain operates within an explanatory framework that assumes a shift from ethnicity to religion and an accompanying shift from racialization to Islamophobia. A key limitation of this work, often grounded in media representations, is that it tends to be disconnected from contemporary lived social relations. In response, this paper critically engage…
Young (Male) Irelanders
This article explores the experiences of second generation Irish young men living in Britain. Drawing upon theories of globalization, diaspora and subjectivity, it considers how ethnic invisibility (in Britain) and national exclusion (in Ireland) are shaping young people's specific experience of cultural peripheries. At the same time, such a position provides an insight into the centrality of the black/white dualism on a lived-out level, while al…
Teachers’ Work
In recent years we have seen a rapid change in the nature and structure of teachers’ work. At one level this has been most immediately experienced within the context of the restratification and restructuring of comprehensive schooling. In the projected post‐Fordist era with its emphasis on small‐scale, flexible team work, within a differentiated market‐place, new school systems are being developed that are helping to shape new teaching cultures. …
Chinese Male Peasant Workers and Shifting Masculine Identities in Urban Workspaces
A key feature of China's internal rural–urban migration is the transformation of work from a rural‐based agricultural sector to urban‐based industrial and service sectors. This article critically examines the interplay between urban work and accompanying social relations in the workplace (that is, service and low‐skilled manual jobs) and the (re)construction of male peasant workers' subjectivities and identity formation. The qualitative data from…
Private Girls and Public Worlds
This article draws upon data gathered from a research project entitled 'Children's Relationship Cultures in Years 5 and 6'. The project aims to explore the ways in which primary school age children understand emotional, caring and family relationships. This paper will focus upon the role of friendship in the cultures of girls, aged 9-10, in a primary school classroom. An ethnographic approach is adopted to illustrate the variety of interactions i…
British Critical Theorists
There is a long historical narrative of the relations between Britain and Ireland in which images of the Irish have been mobilised as major changing representational resources for the making of the British nation, identity and culture. Presently, the Irish diaspora in Britain is a major racialised ethnic group. However, it is absent from contemporary British theorists' representations of race and ethnicity. The paper critically explores the domin…
The Sexual Politics of the Curriculum
This paper arises out of our current work investigating the construction of male and female students’ sexual/gender relations within school arenas. A main concern is to explore recent empirical and theoretical work on sexuality, in an attempt to critique the New Right moralism with its own contradictory form of pluralism. At the same time a critical examination of the sexual politics of the curriculum may serve to rethink the underlying values of…
Coming‐of‐age in 1980s England
Much conventional ‘race‐relations’ research of the schooling of black youth has tended to be underpinned by models of social pathology and subjective discrimination. It is argued here that there is a need to reconceptualise black youths’ schooling experience within a theoretical framework that moves beyond mono‐causal explanations and examines the multifaceted dimensions of racially structured English schooling. Placing students at the centre of …
Shifting discourses from boy preference to boy crisis
It is well established that China has emerged as a major economic power, resulting from the nation’s neoliberal modernization. What is less understood is the socio-cultural and educational impact of this change on public institutions. This article focuses on the education system, which is currently seen as central to delivering the nation’s modernization project, particularly through suzhi jiaoyu (education for quality). More specifically, we eng…
Schooling, masculinity and class analysis
The retreat from social class within the sociology of education has been accompanied by the intensification of socio-economic and cultural inequalities. This paper seeks to draw upon cultural analyses of social class by addressing a classificatory shift of white English working-class males, who have moved from an ascribed primary socio-economic status to an embodied aesthetic performance. We examine the reconfiguration of social class within stat…
The promise of post-structuralist methodology
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable explosion of knowledges across the academy, media and political discourse, generating a wide range of representations of men and masculinity. In this paper, we interrogate the failure for an accompanying understanding of the epistemological and methodological implications of the research process in this area of inquiry. More specifically, the paper is located within a particular arena: the schooling of m…
Beyond a Black—White Dualism
Race, ethnicity and racism are currently of major significance to Western societies. Recent social and cultural changes, associated with the crisis in modernity, involving global economic restructuring, mass migrations and increasing cultural exchange have highlighted a wide range of processes of social exclusion and marginalisation. These changes have challenged older conceptual frameworks of racism and anti-racism based on a black-white dualism…
Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men
This article explores Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men’s experiences of schooling to examine what inclusion/exclusion means to them. Qualitative research was undertaken with 48 Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men living in areas of the West Midlands, England. The young men highlighted three key areas: the emergence of a schooling regime operating through neo-liberal principles, the recognition of class difference between themselves and teacher…
Boys Bonding
This article aims to explore some of the ways in which the cultural meanings and practices of gender, sexuality and relationships intersect with and are reworked in the same-sex friendships of children aged nine to eleven. Using material from an ethnographic study, it focuses on two boys, Ben and Karl, who identified themselves as best friends. The article argues that, while the boys clearly knew, positioned themselves in and deployed heterosexua…
New’ Cultures of Training
Our understanding of a rapidly changing British society is currently being made more difficult as a result of the underplaying of sexual politics. More specifically, contemporary academic and political representations of changing social relations within institutional sites, such as family life, schooling, training and the workplace, are helping to make invisible emerging identities. This article focuses upon ethnographic research on a Modern Appr…
The Training State, De‐industrialisation and the Production of White Working‐class Trainee Identities
This paper highlights the impact of recent state and employment changes upon young people in vocational and educational training.We take the position that within the context of de-industrialisation, changes around youth labour markets are helping to shape new formations of masculine identities.For particular groups of working-class young men these formations appear as highly contradictory.This contradiction surrounds the displacement of their inv…
Class, culture, and difference in England deconstructing the institutional norm
This article examines a group of ethnically diverse male and female students' critical exploration of the complex interconnections between working‐class school careers, identity formation, and cultural practices within English educational institutions. More specifically, it focuses upon the students' deconstruction of academic and teacher representations of working‐class students' state schooling. The students' combined experiences of inner‐city …
Student Perspectives on Curriculum Innovation and Change in an English Secondary School
In recent years we have witnessed unprecedented rapid and substantial curriculum change in state schools. This paper provides a case‐study of how this is being mediated through a secondary school. A student perspective is presented. The focus is on how central government policy initiatives and internal institutional curriculum restructuring have served to disrupt, albeit unintendedly, the conditions for students' learning. They point to the gener…
Coming‐of‐age in 1980s England
Much conventional ‘race‐relations’ research of the schooling of black youth has tended to be underpinned by models of social pathology and subjective discrimination. It is argued here that there is a need to reconceptualise black youths’ schooling experience within a theoretical framework that moves beyond mono‐causal explanations and examines the multifaceted dimensions of racially structured English schooling. Placing students at the centre of …
Schooling, Sexuality and Male Power
In England economic and political imperatives are forcing sociology to retreat from the educational map, which is overladen with the ubiquitous rhetoric of managing the 1988 Education Reform Act. Progressive local education authority curriculum policies are under continuing threat from central government. Against this background, this qualitative study sets out to explore the interrelationship between masculinity and schooling. The particular foc…
State‐school policy
In recent years we have witnessed unprecedented, rapid and substantial curriculum policy changes in state schools. This paper provides a case study of how this change is being mediated through an inner‐city comprehensive school. The particular focus is on the qualitative dimensions of the implementation of curriculum initiatives in the late 1980s and early 1990s. What are reported are the increased contradictions and confusions of differential in…
Teachers’ Work
In recent years we have seen a rapid change in the nature and structure of teachers’ work. At one level this has been most immediately experienced within the context of the restratification and restructuring of comprehensive schooling. In the projected post‐Fordist era with its emphasis on small‐scale, flexible team work, within a differentiated market‐place, new school systems are being developed that are helping to shape new teaching cultures. …
Student Perspectives on Curriculum Innovation and Change in an English Secondary School
In recent years we have witnessed unprecedented rapid and substantial curriculum change in state schools. This paper provides a case‐study of how this is being mediated through a secondary school. A student perspective is presented. The focus is on how central government policy initiatives and internal institutional curriculum restructuring have served to disrupt, albeit unintendedly, the conditions for students' learning. They point to the gener…
The Sexual Politics of the Curriculum
This paper arises out of our current work investigating the construction of male and female students’ sexual/gender relations within school arenas. A main concern is to explore recent empirical and theoretical work on sexuality, in an attempt to critique the New Right moralism with its own contradictory form of pluralism. At the same time a critical examination of the sexual politics of the curriculum may serve to rethink the underlying values of…
Irish Masculinities and Sexualities in England
This chapter explores the complex interplay between sexuality, ethnicity and masculinity. The main focus is the self-representation of young gay Irish men’s sex/gender formations in England. There is a particular concern with the diverse range of sexual identities that they come to inhabit. Key cultural sites include the experience of recent immigration, including the pervasive influence of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), their over-repres…
Deconstructing Heterosexualities within School Arenas
This paper explores the continuing silence around the issue of sexuality within English schools. It is suggested that we are only beginning to understand the complex articulation between schooling, young people's cultural formations and sexual/gender identity formation. More specifically the paper argues that there is a need critically to examine dominant forms of heterosexualities. There is an exploration of recent empirical and theoretical work…
The Training State, De‐industrialisation and the Production of White Working‐class Trainee Identities
This paper highlights the impact of recent state and employment changes upon young people in vocational and educational training.We take the position that within the context of de-industrialisation, changes around youth labour markets are helping to shape new formations of masculine identities.For particular groups of working-class young men these formations appear as highly contradictory.This contradiction surrounds the displacement of their inv…
Class, culture, and difference in England deconstructing the institutional norm
This article examines a group of ethnically diverse male and female students' critical exploration of the complex interconnections between working‐class school careers, identity formation, and cultural practices within English educational institutions. More specifically, it focuses upon the students' deconstruction of academic and teacher representations of working‐class students' state schooling. The students' combined experiences of inner‐city …
Towards a reconceptualised sex/sexuality education policy
At present state schools can be seen as a key institutional arena of contemporary sexual politics. A new moralism has resulted in an increased self‐policing and contestation about the way students should live their lives. This paper sets out the case for progressive educationalists to engage in recent theoretical developments within sexual politics in order to work towards constructing an alternative policy framework for sex education in schools.…
Sociology of Education, State Schooling and Social Class
This paper is concerned with the interrelationship between sociology of education, state schooling and social class. It is suggested that we need to move beyond critiques of the New Right hegemony and begin critically to explore social democratic alternatives. In the paper there is an examination of the ‘old sociology of education’ and inequality and its take‐up by policy‐makers. Social class was of central explanatory value in these early social…
What about the Boys
Currently there is growing professional concern in education about 'boys' schooling underachievement'. At the same time, popular representations are emerging in the media that position boys as the new victims of institutional gender discrimination. Implicit in these accounts is the notion of fixed gender categories for girls and boys that are in the process of changing. In contrast, recent feminist research on schooling has shown the limits of ea…
The end of anti-oppressive education? A differentialist critique
This paper outlines the current crisis in the anti-oppressive problematic in English schooling in the mid-1990s.Locating the argument within a socio-historical context, the development of the anti-oppressive problematic is critiqued from a differentialist position exploring its limits within the inter-related arenas of theory, practice and policy.It raises questions about the central explanatory framework of representing social collectivities in …
A Man in the Making
The academic representation of social transformation in Britain has underplayed the key contribution of sexual politics. More specifically, sociological accounts of changing social relations within institutional sites has served to make invisible sexual identities. From research on a Modern Apprenticeship in the mid 1990's, empirical material is used to make visible male sexualities within Further Education. Importantly, we suggest that in order …
Global futures
IMAGINING THE GLOBAL Whither 'The Global'? A.Brah, M.Hickman & M.Ghail Imagining Globalisation: Power-Geometries of Time-Space D.Massey RISK SOCIETY AND GOVERNANCE Risk, 'Race' and Global Environmental Regulation I.Welsh Global Environmental Change Discourse the Southern Critique M.Mater Governance and the Postnational Policy Process R.Sibeon SYNERGETIC/DISCREPANT DIFFERENCES New Orientalisms, Global Capitalism N.Sum Reviewing the Western Spectac…
New’ Cultures of Training
Our understanding of a rapidly changing British society is currently being made more difficult as a result of the underplaying of sexual politics. More specifically, contemporary academic and political representations of changing social relations within institutional sites, such as family life, schooling, training and the workplace, are helping to make invisible emerging identities. This article focuses upon ethnographic research on a Modern Appr…
Rethinking (Male) Gendered Sexualities
This paper arises out of current work investigating the construction of male and female students' sexual/gender relations within British educational and training arenas. By considering gender identities as performative, qualitative research material is used to illustrate how heterosexual masculinities are lived out. I am particularly concerned with exploring the cultural elements of dominant modes of heterosexual subjectivity. At a time of moral …
Thinking Identities
British Critical Theorists
There is a long historical narrative of the relations between Britain and Ireland in which images of the Irish have been mobilised as major changing representational resources for the making of the British nation, identity and culture. Presently, the Irish diaspora in Britain is a major racialised ethnic group. However, it is absent from contemporary British theorists' representations of race and ethnicity. The paper critically explores the domin…
Boys and Girls Come Out to Play
This article is based on the ethnographic study of children's play at break time in two contrasting primary schools in north London. Play in the two schools was differently gendered, at least partly because of the different organization of the playground. The article will argue that children will use the means available to them to construct gender in their playgrounds and that this will frequently involve the reproduction of hegemonic cultural id…
Beyond a Black—White Dualism
Race, ethnicity and racism are currently of major significance to Western societies. Recent social and cultural changes, associated with the crisis in modernity, involving global economic restructuring, mass migrations and increasing cultural exchange have highlighted a wide range of processes of social exclusion and marginalisation. These changes have challenged older conceptual frameworks of racism and anti-racism based on a black-white dualism…
Private Girls and Public Worlds
This article draws upon data gathered from a research project entitled 'Children's Relationship Cultures in Years 5 and 6'. The project aims to explore the ways in which primary school age children understand emotional, caring and family relationships. This paper will focus upon the role of friendship in the cultures of girls, aged 9-10, in a primary school classroom. An ethnographic approach is adopted to illustrate the variety of interactions i…
Boys Bonding
This article aims to explore some of the ways in which the cultural meanings and practices of gender, sexuality and relationships intersect with and are reworked in the same-sex friendships of children aged nine to eleven. Using material from an ethnographic study, it focuses on two boys, Ben and Karl, who identified themselves as best friends. The article argues that, while the boys clearly knew, positioned themselves in and deployed heterosexua…
Young (Male) Irelanders
This article explores the experiences of second generation Irish young men living in Britain. Drawing upon theories of globalization, diaspora and subjectivity, it considers how ethnic invisibility (in Britain) and national exclusion (in Ireland) are shaping young people's specific experience of cultural peripheries. At the same time, such a position provides an insight into the centrality of the black/white dualism on a lived-out level, while al…
Sociology (48 works) · Gender Studies (40 works) · Political science (36 works) · Gender Studies (26 works) · Politics (24 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (22 works) · Law (20 works) · Social science (19 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Anthropology (13 works)