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  • Football culture in an Australian school setting: The construction of masculine identity.

    Author(s)
    Burgess, Ian Clifford
    Edwards, Allan
    Skinner, James
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Burgess, Ian Clifford C.
    Edwards, Allan L.
    Skinner, James
    Year published
    2003
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    Abstract
    This paper argues that teenage males draw variously on signifying contexts in football to construct their understandings of who they 'are'. As such, football is a widely revered human activity that is strongly implicated in the construction of masculine identity. By examining how football has evolved as a site of controlled masculinity, and how involvement in football is imbued with a dominant set of meanings about what constitutes a 'normal' male, this article will indicate how identity formation for young males is a precarious process. Furthermore, by drawing predominantly on the research of Burgess [(1992) TGs, dags and ...
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    This paper argues that teenage males draw variously on signifying contexts in football to construct their understandings of who they 'are'. As such, football is a widely revered human activity that is strongly implicated in the construction of masculine identity. By examining how football has evolved as a site of controlled masculinity, and how involvement in football is imbued with a dominant set of meanings about what constitutes a 'normal' male, this article will indicate how identity formation for young males is a precarious process. Furthermore, by drawing predominantly on the research of Burgess [(1992) TGs, dags and normals: the construction of masculinity in a ruling-class school (unpublished honours thesis, Griffith University, Brisbane); (1998) Struggle and performance: the construction and identity for teenage males (unpublished PhD thesis, Griffith University, Gold Coast)], in an Australian school setting, it will illustrate that for teenage males there is a seductive resonance in the narrative that violence and toughness in football is indicative of a natural predisposition in 'real' males. Contrary to popular belief though, performances of toughness and violence in sport are not evidence of a preexisting masculine condition but are the constituents of a reiterative process that equates sporting prowess with a particular typology of self. Consequently, involvement in sport is not a guarantee of an oppressive presentation of self, but sport's signifying logic makes such a presentation of self a realisable and accessible option.
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    Journal Title
    Sport Education and Society Journal
    Volume
    8
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13573322.asp
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13573320309250
    Subject
    Education Systems
    Curriculum and Pedagogy
    Specialist Studies in Education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/5887
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