Conway, D. 2008. Masculinities and Narrating the Past: Experiences of Researching White men who Refused to Serve in the Apartheid Army. Qualitative Research. 8 (3), pp. 347-354. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794106093631
| Title | Masculinities and Narrating the Past: Experiences of Researching White men who Refused to Serve in the Apartheid Army |
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| Authors | Conway, D. |
| Abstract | This article reflexively analyses the construction of identity and the representation of the past in qualitative interviews with white men who refused to serve in the apartheid-era South African Defence Force (SADF). The contribution that white male objectors made to the anti-apartheid struggle occupies an ambivalent and increasingly forgotten aspect of South African liberation history. In a reflexive research story, I argue that the gendered, sexual and raced subjectivities of the researcher and researched are central to the joint construction of meaning in the interview and in the creation of self-narratives. The article also analyses how the narratives of white men's involvement in resisting apartheid are defined by their perceived position and wider power struggles in contemporary South Africa. |
| Keywords | masculinities, militarisation, army research, reflexivity, interviewing, qualitative research, ethnography, South Africa, apartheid, narratives, sexuality, LGBT |
| Journal | Qualitative Research |
| Journal citation | 8 (3), pp. 347-354 |
| ISSN | 1468-7941 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Publisher | Sage |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794106093631 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | Jul 2008 |