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Navigating Non-Violent Masculinities: Insights from Adolescent Boys in Alexandra Township

This study explores the complexities and contradictions of promoting non-violent masculinities among adolescent boys in Alexandra Township, South Africa. It examines how hegemonic masculinity influences risk-taking behaviors, such as violent crime. Through the voices of boys like Nathan and Simon, we uncover their conflicting emotions about identity and social acceptance. This research highlights their struggles between societal expectations and personal authenticity, revealing their desire to break away from tsotsi masculinity while navigating peer dynamics.

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Navigating Non-Violent Masculinities: Insights from Adolescent Boys in Alexandra Township

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  1. Contradictions and internal tensions in promoting non-violent masculinities amongst adolescent boys in Alexandra Township, South Africa Malose Langa

  2. Introduction • The construction of hegemonic masculinity as a key influential element in risk-taking behaviours such as violent crime

  3. Conflicting emotions and ambivalence • Nathan: Yes. It’s like I am that simple guy. I wouldn’t say I am popular, I wouldn’t say I am a loser. I feel that I am in between. • Simon: Yes, being like in between, you wouldn’t impress people doing bad things. And again you wouldn’t be that guy that doesn’t socialize, like you lock yourself out. • Martin: “I hate to pretend. I just want to be myself”.

  4. Rejecting tsotsi masculinity • “let’s put five years down the line and see what is going to happen; who is going to be a bookworm, who is going to wash whose car, who is going to be whose garden boy, who is going to … you know stuff like that”.

  5. Merc and big house

  6. Bookworms

  7. Big house

  8. House with a swimming pool

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