Becoming manly
White South African defence force veterans negotiating masculinity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5718665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raksha Janak (0000-0003-3878-9855, University of Pretoria, corresponding author), D Bhana (0000-0002-8504-041X, University of KwaZulu-Natal), James Marculitis (0000-0002-1099-2993, Occidental College), Imraan Buccus (0000-0003-3455-5998) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 116-136 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | NORMA (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1890-2138 • E-ISSN: 1890-2146 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/18902138.2024.2311466 |
| OpenAlex | W4392048115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 35 |
This study examines how white South African men reflect on their experiences of being and becoming army veterans, while negotiating masculinity. In the context of 'high apartheid', Afrikaner domination of the socio-political landscape, ethnic and racialised inequalities, the veterans negotiated being white English-speaking men through reflecting on, critiquing and disassociating from military masculinity. An English South African masculinity was upheld by distancing from Afrikaner domination and values, violence and compulsory heterosexuality. These findings suggest that while a military masculinity offered men a powerful template to assert their authority as white men, such power was nuanced by English South Africans' relative political impotence, the domination of Afrikaans as a language and illustrates the heterogeneity in the experience of white veteran masculinity under apartheid. At the same time, however, white English veterans were complicit in and benefitted from whiteness and the power accrued in the country by virtue of race, class and history of British colonialism. We argue that the experience of being and becoming conscripts and the reflection on military masculinity directs attention to the ways in which broader social and political contexts have effects for the shaping of masculinity reflecting hierarchies of power and fluidity
Masculinity · Negotiation · Political science · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |