Men against the Wall

Graffiti(ed) Masculinities

Bibliographic Data

ID12412948
AuthorsKara-Jane Lombard, Kara‐Jane Lombard (corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume21
Issue2
Pages178-190
Publication date2013-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Men s Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1060-8265 • E-ISSN: 1933-0251
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3149/jms.2102.178
OpenAlexW2333427426
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited14

This paper invokes the categories of the masculine that have been discursively constructed in the historical and social context of hip hop and graffiti culture. The production and performance of graffiti(ed) masculinities are the result of a complex mix that samples notions of class, race, violence, space, commodification, gender, resistance, and violence. Graffiti culture embodies the colonizer's ideals of a masculinity that is dangerous, aggressive and takes risks, while giving men a medium with which to tell their stories and allowing them to express their emotions. The article argues that graffiti(ed) masculinities are composed of seemingly disparate and complex components that shadow the masculine ideals of the colonizer, of hegemonic masculinity, as well as borrowing from notions of subordinate and resistive masculinities

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Commodification · Context (archaeology · Graffiti · Hegemony · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Law · Public Spaces through Art · Urban and sociocultural dynamics

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