TY - JOUR
T1 - Masculinidades traumáticas
T2 - Las geografías generizadas de las PDI georgianas de Abjasia
AU - Kabachnik, Peter
AU - Magdalena, Grabowska
AU - Regulska, Joanna
AU - Mitchneck, Beth
AU - Mayorova, Olga V.
N1 - Funding Information:
Earlier versions of this research were presented at the 2009 Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention, at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, at the 2010 International Geographic Union Regional Conference, and at the 2011 Regional Policy Symposium on Gender Issues in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, sponsored by IREX and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Kennan Institute. We would like to thank Robyn Longhurst and the three anonymous reviewers who provided constructive suggestions which strengthened the article. The usual disclaimer applies. This research, entitled ‘Forced Migrants Living in Post-Conflict Situations: Social Networks and Livelihood Strategies,’ was funded by the National Science Foundation through the Human and Social Dynamics program (#0624230). We would also like to thank our Georgian collaborators, Nana Sumbadze and George Tarkhan-Mouravi, and the interviewers at the Institute for Policy Studies in Tbilisi, Georgia.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Over 200,000 people became internally displaced after several violent conflicts in the early 1990s in Georgia. For many internally displaced persons (IDPs), gender relations have been transformed significantly. This translates to many women taking on the role of breadwinner for their family, which often is accompanied by the process of demasculinization for men. In this article, we examine the construction of masculinities and analyze the gendered processes of displacement and living in post-displacement for Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia. We identify the formation of 'traumatic masculinities' as a result of the threats to, though not usurpation of, hegemonic masculinities. Drawing on interviews, we highlight how IDPs conceptualize gender norms and masculinities in Georgia. Despite the disruptions that displacement has brought about, with the subsequent challenges to IDPs' ideal masculine roles, the discourses of hegemonic masculinities still predominate amongst IDPs. We further illustrate this point by identifying two separate gendered discourses of legitimization that attempt to reconcile hegemonic masculinities with the current contexts and circumstances that IDPs face. These new traumatic masculinities do coexist with hegemonic masculinities, although the latter are reformed and redefined as a result of the new contexts and new places within which they are performed.
AB - Over 200,000 people became internally displaced after several violent conflicts in the early 1990s in Georgia. For many internally displaced persons (IDPs), gender relations have been transformed significantly. This translates to many women taking on the role of breadwinner for their family, which often is accompanied by the process of demasculinization for men. In this article, we examine the construction of masculinities and analyze the gendered processes of displacement and living in post-displacement for Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia. We identify the formation of 'traumatic masculinities' as a result of the threats to, though not usurpation of, hegemonic masculinities. Drawing on interviews, we highlight how IDPs conceptualize gender norms and masculinities in Georgia. Despite the disruptions that displacement has brought about, with the subsequent challenges to IDPs' ideal masculine roles, the discourses of hegemonic masculinities still predominate amongst IDPs. We further illustrate this point by identifying two separate gendered discourses of legitimization that attempt to reconcile hegemonic masculinities with the current contexts and circumstances that IDPs face. These new traumatic masculinities do coexist with hegemonic masculinities, although the latter are reformed and redefined as a result of the new contexts and new places within which they are performed.
KW - Abkhazia
KW - Displacement
KW - Georgia
KW - Internally displaced persons
KW - Masculinities
KW - Trauma
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U2 - 10.1080/0966369X.2012.716402
DO - 10.1080/0966369X.2012.716402
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84890025751
SN - 0966-369X
VL - 20
SP - 773
EP - 793
JO - Gender, Place and Culture
JF - Gender, Place and Culture
IS - 6
ER -