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Malose Langa

Contradictions and internal tensions in promoting non-violent masculinities amongst adolescent boys in Alexandra Township, South Africa. Malose Langa . Introduction. The construction of hegemonic masculinity as a key influential element in risk-taking behaviours such as violent crime.

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Malose Langa

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  1. Contradictions and internal tensions in promoting non-violent masculinities amongst adolescent boys in Alexandra Township, South Africa Malose Langa

  2. Introduction • The construction of hegemonic masculinity as a key influential element in risk-taking behaviours such as violent crime

  3. Conflicting emotions and ambivalence • Nathan: Yes. It’s like I am that simple guy. I wouldn’t say I am popular, I wouldn’t say I am a loser. I feel that I am in between. • Simon: Yes, being like in between, you wouldn’t impress people doing bad things. And again you wouldn’t be that guy that doesn’t socialize, like you lock yourself out. • Martin: “I hate to pretend. I just want to be myself”.

  4. Rejecting tsotsi masculinity • “let’s put five years down the line and see what is going to happen; who is going to be a bookworm, who is going to wash whose car, who is going to be whose garden boy, who is going to … you know stuff like that”.

  5. Merc and big house

  6. Bookworms

  7. Big house

  8. House with a swimming pool

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