Bodies, doings, and gendered ideals in Swedish graffiti
Drawing from extensive fieldwork among graffiti writers in Sweden this article investigates gendered identity work and its consequences. It points to how potentially inclusive aspects of disembodied subcultural performances—that identities are negotiated through the material representation of the w...
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Drawing from extensive fieldwork among graffiti writers in Sweden this article investigates gendered identity work and its consequences. It points to how potentially inclusive aspects of disembodied subcultural performances—that identities are negotiated through the material representation of the writer rather than on basis of the physical body—nevertheless work excludingly, especially so in terms of gender. This is so because identity work in graffiti revolves around a re-embodiment of identities through normative notions of the able, male and invisible body.
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| spelling | doaj.art-7229aecf14ea402c81d8608b14a5e6d92023-02-01T11:16:45ZdanSwedish Sociological AssociationSociologisk Forskning0038-03422002-066X2017-12-0154410.37062/sf.54.18239Bodies, doings, and gendered ideals in Swedish graffitiErik Hannerz0Lund University Drawing from extensive fieldwork among graffiti writers in Sweden this article investigates gendered identity work and its consequences. It points to how potentially inclusive aspects of disembodied subcultural performances—that identities are negotiated through the material representation of the writer rather than on basis of the physical body—nevertheless work excludingly, especially so in terms of gender. This is so because identity work in graffiti revolves around a re-embodiment of identities through normative notions of the able, male and invisible body. https://sociologiskforskning.se/sf/article/view/18239genderidentity workgraffiti |
| spellingShingle | Erik Hannerz Bodies, doings, and gendered ideals in Swedish graffiti Sociologisk Forskning gender identity work graffiti |
| title | Bodies, doings, and gendered ideals in Swedish graffiti |
| title_full | Bodies, doings, and gendered ideals in Swedish graffiti |
| title_fullStr | Bodies, doings, and gendered ideals in Swedish graffiti |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bodies, doings, and gendered ideals in Swedish graffiti |
| title_short | Bodies, doings, and gendered ideals in Swedish graffiti |
| title_sort | bodies doings and gendered ideals in swedish graffiti |
| topic | gender identity work graffiti |
| url | https://sociologiskforskning.se/sf/article/view/18239 |
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