Leaky bodies: masculinity and risk in the practice of cyanide fishing in Indonesia

Dive fishing with cyanide is known as a risky practice, it pushes or lures divers to the limits of what their bodies can take. Its association physical danger linked culture machismo and coming-of-age process in which young men prove bravery become part shared manhood. What often remains implicit understanding risk-seeking activities notion body masculinity that such practices entail produce. Understanding risk how relates native terms requires conceptual tools think beyond self-contained navigates an external environment. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork Indonesia, this article explores dive context practice relation contingent, permeable leaky. Drawing from situated narratives post-human phenomenology, makes room for masculinities man by describing transformative becoming fluid submerged world currents spirits. By showing brings threshold endurance, sheds light vulnerabilities fishers environment exploitation.