Masculinity strategies of young queer men as queer capital

Kjaran, Jón Ingvar; Jóhannesson, Ingólfur Ásgeir

doi:10.1080/18902138.2016.1143274

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“…All the queer youth mentioned that being out as gay had helped them to gain a higher social position and that they became rather popular among their peers. Kjaran and Jóhannesson (2016) conclude that the gay and bisexual boys seemed to have secured their social position within their heteronormative school spaces, and they did not experience their environment as exclusionary. Msibi (2012), writing within SA, found that queer learners, despite experiencing victimization and hostility in schools, portrayed a positive self-image for themselves as a mechanism for coping with homophobia.…”

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“…In their article, exploring the gender performances by gay and bisexual young men in upper secondary schools in Iceland, Kjaran and Jóhannesson (2016) report on the social strategies that gave the youth some kind of distinction. All the queer youth mentioned that being out as gay had helped them to gain a higher social position and that they became rather popular among their peers.…”

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“…Harper et al (2012), Kjaran and Jóhannesson (2016) and Msibi’s (2012) studies all show that homophobic and hostile schooling environments do not necessarily equate to passivity, exclusion and lack of agency. As Loutzenheiser (2015) argues, while queer youth may be targets of heterosexist school environments, many are impressive and successful young people and agents of change in their own schools and communities.…”

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“…For example, the South African constitution includes sexual diversity and forbids any discrimination on the basis of gender and sexuality (Francis, 2017b). Similar laws have been passed within the Nordic context, although they are not in all cases included in the constitution (Kjaran & Jóhannesson, 2016; Kjaran & Lehtonen, 2017). Due to this, Iceland and SA share a global comparison in that both countries are depicted as beacons of LGBTQ rights.…”

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“…Research on Icelandic schools has mostly focused on the secondary and upper secondary schools, which have been depicted as heteronormative sites in which heteronormativity is (re)produced, creating a feeling of exclusion for queer learners (Kjaran, 2017; Kjaran & Jóhannesson, 2016). Rarely experiencing physical harassment or overt homophobic violence, queer learners have mostly reported heterosexist views and/or verbal abuse from fellow learners and teachers (Kjaran & Jóhannesson, 2013; Kjaran & Kristinsdóttir, 2015).…”

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Troubling the discourse of the victimization of queer youth in Icelandic and South African education

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The homophobia and hostility experienced by queer learners in Icelandic and South African schools are well documented. Drawing on in-depth interviews with queer youth (16–19 years) in Iceland and South Africa, this paper aims at understanding how queer youth navigate heterosexist and homophobic school spaces and create some positive spaces. The findings highlight that queer youth employ various social and discursive strategies to (re)position themselves as agentic subjects. They counter heteronormativity by drawing on what we define in this paper as “queer capital”, which entails deploying various social and discursive strategies to establish some kind of distinction within the school and in their interaction with peers. Humour, parody, and active resistance, as well as finding ways to escape the regulatory mechanisms of gender, and relating easily to both genders, are examples of the social/discursive strategies employed by our participants and discussed in the paper. The paper then concludes with implications for research with queer youth.

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While many consumer behavior studies have investigated consumer coping, few have considered it as a source of positive benefits in addition to being a matter of necessity. In this paper, we draw on Bourdieu’s notion of capital to introduce the concept of coping capital—the intentional or unintentional accumulation of resources, such as emotional and epistemic-competencies and skills resulting from coping with adversity, that may thereafter exist in an embodied state in the form of mental and physical dispositions—dispositions that later provide benefits in life. We suggest that the benefits of coping capital may be determined using either a prospective or a retrospective approach. These benefits may be anticipated or unanticipated when intentionally coping with adversity, while the benefits are predominantly unanticipated when unintentionally coping. By conceptualizing coping capital, our study makes a domain-level conceptual contribution to research on consumer coping. In addition the concept of coping capital may have broader implications outside of the domain of consumption.

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Among sexual minority men, gay, bisexual, and queer men (GBQM) may experience differences in terms of their sense of belonging to a sexual minority community (community connectedness), outness about their sexual identity, and their experiences of proximal and distal sexuality-based stressors. Although group membership can confer unique benefits to members of marginalized groups, including GBQM, these Psychology of Men & Masculinities

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Masculinity strategies of young queer men as queer capital

Cited by 10 publications

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Troubling the discourse of the victimization of queer youth in Icelandic and South African education

Troubling the discourse of the victimization of queer youth in Icelandic and South African education

‘Pressure creates diamonds’/‘fire refines gold’: Conceptualizing coping capital

Minority stressors and connectedness among urban gay, bisexual, and queer men.

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