Earle, Rod
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1177/1748895811398458 |
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Abstract
This paper explores aspects of young men’s gender identities as they serve time in an English Young Offender Institution. Based on qualitative research, the paper discusses three dimensions of the way the young men talk about their lives, inside and outside prison. It is argued that the evocation of a specific condition of being ‘on road’ is linked to forms of youthful masculine collectivity, ‘my boys’, which valorise pre-modern forms of martial masculinity. These two themes converge in the pre-eminence of ‘postcode pride’, the salience of ‘the local’ in the young men’s accounts of themselves. These aspects of the young men’s experience are explored with reference to other recent research findings on young men’s experience of ‘gang’ activity and living on the social margins.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2011 The Author |
| ISSN: | 1748-8966 |
| Funders: | ESRC, Award 1-48-250053 |
| Keywords: | boys; ethnography; gender; masculinity; prison |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Health and Social Care > Health and Social Care |
| Item ID: | 25424 |
| Depositing User: | Rod Earle |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2011 16:17 |
| Last Modified: | 29 May 2013 11:33 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/25424 |
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