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dc.contributor.authorGreig, Alanen
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-01T14:45:50Z
dc.date.available2016-02-01T14:45:50Z
dc.date.issued01/04/2000en
dc.identifier.citationGreig, A. (2000) The Spectacle of Men Fighting. IDS Bulletin 31(2): 28-32en
dc.identifier.issn1759-5436en
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/8807
dc.description.abstractSummaries The meaning of male violence should be a central concern of Gender and Development (GAD) discourse and practice. Explanations of the nature, and limits, of men's responsibility for such violence increasingly centre on their socialisation into a masculine identity. By counter?posing the ‘individual’ and the ‘social’, attention becomes fixed on identity as the surface that connects these two realities on which is inscribed the masculinity of men. The task of responding to the spectacle of men fighting then appears to be one of re?inscribing a new non?violent masculine identity. This paper argues that GAD practitioners should be wary of this kind of politics of identity. Focusing on identification as relation, rather than identity as boundary, clarifies the violent politics of difference at the heart of masculinity. Addressing violence means approaching a new politics of difference. This is a politics of alliance and coalition, a transgressing of sectoral and institutional boundaries in recognition of the common bases of oppression and their plural manifestations in women's and men's lives. GAD can address the politics of identification(s) by approaching questions of responsibility for and complicity in male violence as personal?communal issues. Depending on what they choose to fight for, the spectacle of men fighting can be a sight, and site, of real political potency.en
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dc.publisherInstitute of Development Studiesen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Bulletin Vol. 31 Nos. 2en
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen
dc.titleThe Spectacle of Men Fightingen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.rights.holder© 2000 Institue of Development Studiesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1759-5436.2000.mp31002004.xen


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