A city of men? Youth masculinities and everyday gendered violences in urban India
Join this event to hear Dr Shannon Philip talk about his research into Indian masculinity in urban spaces, examining the processes through which the city is masculinised, and what outcomes these processes have for the men and women who live there.
A city of men? Youth masculinities and everyday gendered violences in urban India
24 Oct 2023, 13:00 – 14:00
In this talk, Dr Philip will explore the gendering of everyday urban spaces and the social production of gendered violence. Through ethnographic data collected by ‘hanging out’ with young Indian men in New Delhi, he reveals how their youth masculinities are constructed and performed, and how these in turn produce hostility, fear and violence for young women and girls accessing the same urban spaces.
Through weaving together material from myriad urban sites like gyms, bars, trains, street corners, night clubs, gay cruising parks as well as shopping malls, Dr Philip explores how there is an attempt to make the city a masculine space, with a hypersexualisation of young women in the same spaces. However, this process is not even or uniform, with several masculine anxieties and vulnerabilities also emerging in young men’s claims on the city from queer and non-masculine bodies. In this way, the urban space becomes an interesting palimpsest to explore the politics of gender, class, youth, sexualities and violences on an everyday level.
This event will be particularly useful for those interested in intersectional approaches to identity, masculinities, India, city and urban sociology and gender relations.
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Dr Shannon Philip
Assistant Professor of Sociology
the University of East Anglia
His new research project comparatively explores youth masculinities, sexualities, urban transformations and gender relations in South Africa and India.