Messy matters: Disturbing the forces of constraining masculinities with/in creative praxis
Pihkala, Suvi; Huuki, Tuija (2024-12-11)
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Sisältö avataan julkiseksi: 11.06.2026
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11.12.2024
Pihkala, S., & Huuki, T. (2024). Messy matters: Disturbing the forces of constraining masculinities with/in creative praxis. In S. Gannon, A. Pasley, & J. Osgood (Eds.), Gender un/bound: Traversing educational possibilities (pp. 35–49). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032713663-4
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© 2024 Informa UK Limited. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Gender Un/Bound: Traversing Educational Possibilities on 11 December 2024, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032713663
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© 2024 Informa UK Limited. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Gender Un/Bound: Traversing Educational Possibilities on 11 December 2024, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032713663
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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Abstract
Working over two decades with sensitive areas of experience in education has brought forth the importance of engaging children in exploring and addressing gendered and sexual peer cultures and envisioning ethically more sustainable ways of relating. It has also shown the impossibilities and difficult affects entailed in working with topics such as gender, sexuality, ‘liking’ and young peer cultures, particularly for boys most caught in constricting forces of masculine ideologies. This chapter builds upon three stories of such forces from our arts-workshops with 10- to 13-year-old pre-teens. These are stories of destructive and messy moments in our praxis. Struck by how these moments emerged and unfolded, rather than dismissing them as unproductive non-making, we slow down with them to offer a reading of the materializations of the constraining forces of young masculinities co-present in children’s lives and subsequently in our effort in exploring gender and sexual relationality co-creatively. By thinking-with these moments, the chapter highlights the need for composing slow(er), situated, response-able and enabling conditions for young peer cultures to be addressed.
Working over two decades with sensitive areas of experience in education has brought forth the importance of engaging children in exploring and addressing gendered and sexual peer cultures and envisioning ethically more sustainable ways of relating. It has also shown the impossibilities and difficult affects entailed in working with topics such as gender, sexuality, ‘liking’ and young peer cultures, particularly for boys most caught in constricting forces of masculine ideologies. This chapter builds upon three stories of such forces from our arts-workshops with 10- to 13-year-old pre-teens. These are stories of destructive and messy moments in our praxis. Struck by how these moments emerged and unfolded, rather than dismissing them as unproductive non-making, we slow down with them to offer a reading of the materializations of the constraining forces of young masculinities co-present in children’s lives and subsequently in our effort in exploring gender and sexual relationality co-creatively. By thinking-with these moments, the chapter highlights the need for composing slow(er), situated, response-able and enabling conditions for young peer cultures to be addressed.
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