Ser com: masculinidades negras na África do Sul pós-apartheid

Felipe Bandeira Netto

doi:10.5433/2176-6665.2025v30e53390

Authors

Felipe Bandeira Netto Federal University of Pará https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8894-4599

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2025v30e53390

Keywords:

Black masculinities, ethnography, South Africa, relational ontology, post-apartheid, cultural hybridity, structural inequality

Abstract

This ethnographic article examines Black masculinities in South Africa within an urban and post-apartheid context, based on fieldwork conducted in Johannesburg between 2024 and 2025. The research understands masculinity as a historical, relational, and situated process shaped by structural inequalities, colonial legacies, and the global circulation of values. The analysis articulates axes of collectivity, historical memory, cultural hybridity, and structural inequality, exploring how these elements shape everyday masculine practices and modes of subjectivation. The ethnography was conducted through embedded daily interaction and situated listening, grounded in a critical and ethical perspective of ethnographic refusal. The study contributes to debates on masculinities in the Global South, highlighting their complexity, historicity, and political force.

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Author Biography

Felipe Bandeira Netto, Federal University of Pará

Master’s degree in Science and Mathematics Education from the Federal University of Pará (2022). PhD candidate in Anthropology in the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology at the Federal University of Pará.

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