Engineering Masculinities
How Higher Education Genders the Water Profession in Peru
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12973459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edwin Rap (0000-0001-8464-6279, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, corresponding author), María Teresa Oré (0000-0003-0191-4560, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 95-119 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Engineering Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1937-8629 • E-ISSN: 1940-8374 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19378629.2017.1342255 |
| OpenAlex | W2731582446 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 37 |
By telling the story of an agricultural university in Peru, this article shows how a specific professional formation forges a strong linkage between engineering and masculine identities in water management. Although these identities come to be seen as self-evident or even natural, they are the outcome of diverse, repeated, and ritualized performances as part of the everyday life of the university. Through collectively enacting and experiencing such cultural performances, engineering students are trained to do science and technology in specific ways, ways that embody particularly masculine symbolic repertoires. On becoming part of a professional society, through rites of passage such as hazing and field work, students simultaneously learn to behave as engineers and become ‘real’ men. Building on and sometimes actively re-working existing societal markers of hierarchy and difference, male engineers in this process distinguish themselves from non-engineers, women and ‘other’ men. With careful interviewing and observation of agricultural engineers, the article suggests an interpretive framework to analyse the multiple cultural and performative repertoires that ‘engineer’ specific masculinities
Aesthetics · Engineering education · Engineering ethics · Engineering management · Field (mathematics · Hierarchy · Identity (music · Interview · Natural (archaeology · Pedagogy · Performative utterance · Performativity · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Engineering · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |