Rob Pattman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3920856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Pattman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Pattman |
| SIGNATURE | PATTMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mediating gendered performances
Gender inequalities in schools have implications for life chances, emotional well-being and educational policies and practices, but are apparently resistant to change. This paper employs Judith Butler's conceptualisation of performativity in a study of young people and consumption to provide insights into gendered inequities. It argues that how the young people 'do' gender in focus groups frequently involves the discussion of young women's bodies…
Girls want money, boys want virgins
How do young South Africans give meaning to love? In this paper we draw on findings from an interview study to examine the ways in which young Africans, aged 16 to 17 years in a poor township in KwaZulu-Natal province, express ideals of love and romance. Their claims to love we show are strategic advantages as they negotiate poverty and economic marginalisation. Girls' ideals of love are tied to their aspirations towards middle-class consumerism.…
Towards gender equality
Sport, Girls, Trouble and Humour
This article reports on an interview study conducted by Deevia Bhana and Rob Pattman of Grade 11 (16–17 year old) boys attending different kinds of public schools in the Durban, South Africa. It investigated their accounts personal lives and identities as young men and women in and outside their schools. We conducted semi-structured interviews with the participants to determine how they experienced school and how they presented themselves in the …
White South African school girls and their accounts of black girls at school and cross-racial heterosexual relations outside school
The post-apartheid era has generated opportunities for cross-racial mixing and socializing among young people inconceivable under apartheid, and this perhaps is no more apparent than in the formation of racially mixed public schools. In this article we draw on an interview study that seeks to investigate Grade 11 (16—17-year-old) young people and their lives and identities in different schools near Durban. We concentrate on interviews conducted w…
Student identities, and researching these, in a newly ‘racially’ merged university in South Africa
The paper reports on research conducted by third‐year sociology students into student identities at the University of KwaZulu‐Natal in Durban, South Africa. This university was formed as a result of a merger between two formerly ‘racially’ defined universities. The research, comprising interviews and observation and taking place at the University’s Howard College (the formerly white University of Natal), was envisaged as a way of enabling the stu…
Christian women and men from Durban
In HIV and AIDS and life skills education in southern Africa peer education has been advocated as a way of democratizing relations between educators and students and encouraging participatory pedagogies. But what makes a peer educator, or rather how do people make themselves peer educators? Similarities in terms of age, social status and background do not automatically result in teachers and students identifying as peers and engaging in participa…
Loving and hating Jacob Zuma
Middle‐class struggle? Identity‐work and leisure among sixth formers in the United Kingdom
This paper explores the ways in which sixth-form students in Milton Keynes negotiate their identities and the symbolic significance they attach to leisure activities in the process of doing this. The paper draws upon qualitative, young-person-centred interviews with sixth formers in state and private schools. We address the investments of sixth formers in constructing themselves as autonomous individuals and argue that they do so from a position …
‘Boys and Girls should not be too Close’
This article explores the significance of sexuality in relation to the ways boys and girls in southern and eastern Africa construct their identities. It draws on a UNICEF-funded study conducted in the region with 6-18-year-olds from 2001 to 2002. This addressed young people as active and intelligent beings and encouraged them (in interviews and diaries) to elaborate upon their interests, pleasures and anxieties, and their relations with contempor…
Constructing and experiencing boyhoods in research in London
When Rob was about 14‐years‐old, at an all male boarding school, he was so glad that he did not have a tiny penis like another boy who was called girl. He was popular because he was good at sport, missed his mum and dog terribly but never showed it (except a little to his mum and dog) and talked a lot about girls he fancied. These memories were triggered by an interview based study on the identities of 11‐ to 14‐year‐old boys in London which we c…
Work-family matters in the workplace
The article shows how talk and the expression of feelings about work-family matters in the workplace are generated within the research encounter and how they are shaped by the characteristics of the focus group. First, it outlines the study. Second, it discusses the conditions under which the focus group method was implemented in practice, thereby pointing to the limitations as well as the strengths of its application within an organizational cas…
Redundant Masculinities? — Employment Change and White Working Class Youth
Taking a stand
This paper is concerned with thinking through the cultural construction of personal identities whilst avoiding the classical social‐individual division. Our starting point is the notion that there is no such thing as ‘the individual’, standing outside the social; however, there is an arena of personal subjectivity, even though this does not exist other than as already inscribed in the sociocultural domain. Our argument is that there are psychoana…
Dear diary I saw an angel, she looked like heaven on earth’
In this paper we highlight and address some of the problems involved in teaching HIV/AIDS education in southern and eastern Africa, and especially in generating open discussion among pupils about sex and sexuality. The paper draws on the findings of a UNICEF-funded study, in which we were involved, as research consultants (2001). The study focused on 'young people, gender, sexuality and HIV/AIDS education' and was conducted in Botswana, Kenya, Rw…
Producing Contradictory Masculine Subject Positions
This paper reports a qualitative analysis of data from a study of masculinity in 11–14 year old boys attending twelve London schools. Forty‐five group discussions (N= 245) and two individual interviews (N= 78) were conducted. The findings indicate that boys’ experiences of school led them to assume that interviews would expose them to ridicule and so threaten their masculinity. Boys were generally more serious and willing to reveal emotions in in…
Young Masculinities
"But it's racism I really hate"
"But it's racism I really hate"
This article addresses the issue of how discursive analyses revealing the way personal accounts of masculinities are constructed can be supplemented by theories providing plausible explanations of how individuals take up particular subject positions. It is suggested that psychoanalytic concepts are helpful in this regard. An analysis is presented of material from a participant in a study of emergent masculinities among boys in London schools. Thi…
Lads, Machos and Others
The theoretical underpinnings of recent research on the emergent masculinities of boys and young men are reviewed and analysed. Particular attention is given to the construction of boys as active subjects in the production of their masculine identities. A coming-together of discursive social psychology and psychoanalysis is observed in this area. Several major studies drawing on, and contributing to, this theoretical perspective are reviewed. Emp…
Teaching Sex/Aids Education in Zimbabwe
This paper is about the author's experiences and problems as a white, expatriate British man teaching AIDS education at a teachers’ college in Zimbabwe. A key concern was to develop student‐centred methods to encourage students, and especially women, to articulate anxieties and desires which might be taboo in mixed gender groups
Subjectivisation as control or resistance
(1989). Subjectivisation as control or resistance: An examination of reformation theology and Marxism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 11, No. 1-6, pp. 967-978
Producing Contradictory Masculine Subject Positions
This paper reports a qualitative analysis of data from a study of masculinity in 11–14 year old boys attending twelve London schools. Forty‐five group discussions (N= 245) and two individual interviews (N= 78) were conducted. The findings indicate that boys’ experiences of school led them to assume that interviews would expose them to ridicule and so threaten their masculinity. Boys were generally more serious and willing to reveal emotions in in…
Middle‐class struggle? Identity‐work and leisure among sixth formers in the United Kingdom
This paper explores the ways in which sixth-form students in Milton Keynes negotiate their identities and the symbolic significance they attach to leisure activities in the process of doing this. The paper draws upon qualitative, young-person-centred interviews with sixth formers in state and private schools. We address the investments of sixth formers in constructing themselves as autonomous individuals and argue that they do so from a position …
White South African school girls and their accounts of black girls at school and cross-racial heterosexual relations outside school
The post-apartheid era has generated opportunities for cross-racial mixing and socializing among young people inconceivable under apartheid, and this perhaps is no more apparent than in the formation of racially mixed public schools. In this article we draw on an interview study that seeks to investigate Grade 11 (16—17-year-old) young people and their lives and identities in different schools near Durban. We concentrate on interviews conducted w…
Lads, Machos and Others
The theoretical underpinnings of recent research on the emergent masculinities of boys and young men are reviewed and analysed. Particular attention is given to the construction of boys as active subjects in the production of their masculine identities. A coming-together of discursive social psychology and psychoanalysis is observed in this area. Several major studies drawing on, and contributing to, this theoretical perspective are reviewed. Emp…
Work-family matters in the workplace
The article shows how talk and the expression of feelings about work-family matters in the workplace are generated within the research encounter and how they are shaped by the characteristics of the focus group. First, it outlines the study. Second, it discusses the conditions under which the focus group method was implemented in practice, thereby pointing to the limitations as well as the strengths of its application within an organizational cas…
Student identities, and researching these, in a newly ‘racially’ merged university in South Africa
The paper reports on research conducted by third‐year sociology students into student identities at the University of KwaZulu‐Natal in Durban, South Africa. This university was formed as a result of a merger between two formerly ‘racially’ defined universities. The research, comprising interviews and observation and taking place at the University’s Howard College (the formerly white University of Natal), was envisaged as a way of enabling the stu…
Mediating gendered performances
Gender inequalities in schools have implications for life chances, emotional well-being and educational policies and practices, but are apparently resistant to change. This paper employs Judith Butler's conceptualisation of performativity in a study of young people and consumption to provide insights into gendered inequities. It argues that how the young people 'do' gender in focus groups frequently involves the discussion of young women's bodies…
Constructing and experiencing boyhoods in research in London
When Rob was about 14‐years‐old, at an all male boarding school, he was so glad that he did not have a tiny penis like another boy who was called girl. He was popular because he was good at sport, missed his mum and dog terribly but never showed it (except a little to his mum and dog) and talked a lot about girls he fancied. These memories were triggered by an interview based study on the identities of 11‐ to 14‐year‐old boys in London which we c…
Teaching Sex/Aids Education in Zimbabwe
This paper is about the author's experiences and problems as a white, expatriate British man teaching AIDS education at a teachers’ college in Zimbabwe. A key concern was to develop student‐centred methods to encourage students, and especially women, to articulate anxieties and desires which might be taboo in mixed gender groups
Subjectivisation as control or resistance
(1989). Subjectivisation as control or resistance: An examination of reformation theology and Marxism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 11, No. 1-6, pp. 967-978
Teaching Sex/Aids Education in Zimbabwe
This paper is about the author's experiences and problems as a white, expatriate British man teaching AIDS education at a teachers’ college in Zimbabwe. A key concern was to develop student‐centred methods to encourage students, and especially women, to articulate anxieties and desires which might be taboo in mixed gender groups
Lads, Machos and Others
The theoretical underpinnings of recent research on the emergent masculinities of boys and young men are reviewed and analysed. Particular attention is given to the construction of boys as active subjects in the production of their masculine identities. A coming-together of discursive social psychology and psychoanalysis is observed in this area. Several major studies drawing on, and contributing to, this theoretical perspective are reviewed. Emp…
"But it's racism I really hate"
"But it's racism I really hate"
This article addresses the issue of how discursive analyses revealing the way personal accounts of masculinities are constructed can be supplemented by theories providing plausible explanations of how individuals take up particular subject positions. It is suggested that psychoanalytic concepts are helpful in this regard. An analysis is presented of material from a participant in a study of emergent masculinities among boys in London schools. Thi…
Young Masculinities
Taking a stand
This paper is concerned with thinking through the cultural construction of personal identities whilst avoiding the classical social‐individual division. Our starting point is the notion that there is no such thing as ‘the individual’, standing outside the social; however, there is an arena of personal subjectivity, even though this does not exist other than as already inscribed in the sociocultural domain. Our argument is that there are psychoana…
Dear diary I saw an angel, she looked like heaven on earth’
In this paper we highlight and address some of the problems involved in teaching HIV/AIDS education in southern and eastern Africa, and especially in generating open discussion among pupils about sex and sexuality. The paper draws on the findings of a UNICEF-funded study, in which we were involved, as research consultants (2001). The study focused on 'young people, gender, sexuality and HIV/AIDS education' and was conducted in Botswana, Kenya, Rw…
Producing Contradictory Masculine Subject Positions
This paper reports a qualitative analysis of data from a study of masculinity in 11–14 year old boys attending twelve London schools. Forty‐five group discussions (N= 245) and two individual interviews (N= 78) were conducted. The findings indicate that boys’ experiences of school led them to assume that interviews would expose them to ridicule and so threaten their masculinity. Boys were generally more serious and willing to reveal emotions in in…
Redundant Masculinities? — Employment Change and White Working Class Youth
‘Boys and Girls should not be too Close’
This article explores the significance of sexuality in relation to the ways boys and girls in southern and eastern Africa construct their identities. It draws on a UNICEF-funded study conducted in the region with 6-18-year-olds from 2001 to 2002. This addressed young people as active and intelligent beings and encouraged them (in interviews and diaries) to elaborate upon their interests, pleasures and anxieties, and their relations with contempor…
Constructing and experiencing boyhoods in research in London
When Rob was about 14‐years‐old, at an all male boarding school, he was so glad that he did not have a tiny penis like another boy who was called girl. He was popular because he was good at sport, missed his mum and dog terribly but never showed it (except a little to his mum and dog) and talked a lot about girls he fancied. These memories were triggered by an interview based study on the identities of 11‐ to 14‐year‐old boys in London which we c…
Work-family matters in the workplace
The article shows how talk and the expression of feelings about work-family matters in the workplace are generated within the research encounter and how they are shaped by the characteristics of the focus group. First, it outlines the study. Second, it discusses the conditions under which the focus group method was implemented in practice, thereby pointing to the limitations as well as the strengths of its application within an organizational cas…
Loving and hating Jacob Zuma
Middle‐class struggle? Identity‐work and leisure among sixth formers in the United Kingdom
This paper explores the ways in which sixth-form students in Milton Keynes negotiate their identities and the symbolic significance they attach to leisure activities in the process of doing this. The paper draws upon qualitative, young-person-centred interviews with sixth formers in state and private schools. We address the investments of sixth formers in constructing themselves as autonomous individuals and argue that they do so from a position …
Student identities, and researching these, in a newly ‘racially’ merged university in South Africa
The paper reports on research conducted by third‐year sociology students into student identities at the University of KwaZulu‐Natal in Durban, South Africa. This university was formed as a result of a merger between two formerly ‘racially’ defined universities. The research, comprising interviews and observation and taking place at the University’s Howard College (the formerly white University of Natal), was envisaged as a way of enabling the stu…
Christian women and men from Durban
In HIV and AIDS and life skills education in southern Africa peer education has been advocated as a way of democratizing relations between educators and students and encouraging participatory pedagogies. But what makes a peer educator, or rather how do people make themselves peer educators? Similarities in terms of age, social status and background do not automatically result in teachers and students identifying as peers and engaging in participa…
Sport, Girls, Trouble and Humour
This article reports on an interview study conducted by Deevia Bhana and Rob Pattman of Grade 11 (16–17 year old) boys attending different kinds of public schools in the Durban, South Africa. It investigated their accounts personal lives and identities as young men and women in and outside their schools. We conducted semi-structured interviews with the participants to determine how they experienced school and how they presented themselves in the …
White South African school girls and their accounts of black girls at school and cross-racial heterosexual relations outside school
The post-apartheid era has generated opportunities for cross-racial mixing and socializing among young people inconceivable under apartheid, and this perhaps is no more apparent than in the formation of racially mixed public schools. In this article we draw on an interview study that seeks to investigate Grade 11 (16—17-year-old) young people and their lives and identities in different schools near Durban. We concentrate on interviews conducted w…
Girls want money, boys want virgins
How do young South Africans give meaning to love? In this paper we draw on findings from an interview study to examine the ways in which young Africans, aged 16 to 17 years in a poor township in KwaZulu-Natal province, express ideals of love and romance. Their claims to love we show are strategic advantages as they negotiate poverty and economic marginalisation. Girls' ideals of love are tied to their aspirations towards middle-class consumerism.…
Towards gender equality
Mediating gendered performances
Gender inequalities in schools have implications for life chances, emotional well-being and educational policies and practices, but are apparently resistant to change. This paper employs Judith Butler's conceptualisation of performativity in a study of young people and consumption to provide insights into gendered inequities. It argues that how the young people 'do' gender in focus groups frequently involves the discussion of young women's bodies…
Sociology (22 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Political science (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (5 works)