“I don’t know what the world is coming to. Bloody perverts…”: Masculinity and Displacement in Pre-Ceasefire Derry Girls (2018–19)

Although widely applauded for its female centrality, Derry Girls (2018-19) also problematises the displacement of masculine subjectivities in a period when peace process and effects globalisation permeated renegotiation discursive notions masculinity Northern Ireland. Intergenerational relations are key to understanding this male characters like Granda Joe (the hard man), Da Gerry new or James. With an emphasis on carnivalesque, liminality, space, emasculation, article will investigate extent which characters, who caught amidst rapid cultural changes caused by spatial negotiations ceasefire, represent collapsing structural dimensions social constitution gender pre-ceasefire