Asmawati, A., Duriesmith, D. orcid.org/0000-0003-4210-6113, Ismail, N.H. et al. (1 more author) (2024) Locating violence-resistant masculinities in sites of conflict. Peacebuilding, 12 (4). pp. 557-574. ISSN 2164-7259
Abstract
Scholarship on conflict has been slow to recognise masculinities, often failing to address the impact of gender on men and boys. Even when masculinities are recognised in sites of conflict by feminist scholarship, they tend to be framed exclusively in terms of explicit norms around men’s use of violence or treatment of women. This has meant that alternative masculinities, which might be more amenable to peace, are often difficult to locate or fraught. Reflecting on conducting interviews on responding to political violence in Indonesia (Aceh and Central Java), this paper interrogates the methodological challenges of researching the diverse range of masculinities that might create pathways for disrupting violence. Three strategies are suggested for ‘locating’ violence-resistant masculinities while researching conflict (‘reading’ gender, strong objectivity and in-depth methods) and considering how researchers might avoid misinterpreting these masculinities in problematic ways.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Masculinities; conflict; violence prevention; research methods |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Aug 2024 13:35 |
Last Modified: | 25 Feb 2025 09:08 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/21647259.2024.2384196 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:215671 |
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