Violence and masculinity amongst left-wing ultras in post-Yugoslav space

Girls’ Violence: Beyond Dangerous Masculinity

In this article, we review criminological perspectives of girls’ violence. To do this, we first look at the 20th-century tendency to view violent girls as being the same as violent boys or as taking up dangerous types of masculinity. Second, we consider the contemporary ways that researchers have tried to move beyond male-centered and masculinized explanations of female violence. Noting potenti...

Hegemonic masculinity, structural violence, and health inequalities

There is persuasive evidence that the reduction of health inequalities can only be achieved by addressing their fundamental causes, as opposed to the diseases through which they are expressed at any given time, or the immediate precursors of those diseases (Phelan et al 2004). This explains both the persistence of health inequalities over time and the failure of policies which only target their...

Class in Yugoslav Socialism and in the Post-Yugoslav Societies: Toward a Bourdieuan Repositioning of the Issue (Part 1)

Class in Yugoslav Socialism and in the Post-Yugoslav Societies: Toward a Bourdieuan Repositioning of the Issue (Part 2)

Wartime sexual violence: women’s human rights and questions of masculinity

This article examines wartime sexual violence, one of the most recurring wartime human rights abuses. It asserts that our theorisations need further development, particularly in regard to the way that masculinities and the intersections with constructions of ethnicity feature in wartime sexual violence. The article also argues that although women and girls are the predominant victims of sexual ...