Project Details
Projekt
Viscourses of adolescent masculinities in the global North since 1960
Subject Area
Art History
Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory
Term
since 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 547816517
Since the 1960s, emancipated, pluralistic and independent youth cultures are on the rise, particularly in Western Europe and the USA. Through a combination of sociological and art historical approaches, we will examine the sociological and photographic viscourses of adolescent masculinities, their function in creating knowledge about male adolescence and its visual representation. In four interlocking parts, this project develops an interdisciplinary methodology, which aims to use and realign the method of viscourse analysis. Section 1 "Masculinities in the Sociology of Youth - On the Non-simultaneity of Science and Photography from the 1960s onwards in the USA and Germany” examines and evaluates the discourse of "Sociology of Youth" to unpack the entanglements and asynchronicities of photography and sociology. Section 2 "Photography as a method in art and sociology - Participant Photography and Photovoice as emancipation strategies of male adolescence?" looks at the emancipatory potential of photographic, sociological methods by comparing two central archives located at the interface of youth, photography and participation. Section 3 "Sport/Initiation/Vulnerability - Photography as a sociology of adolescent homosociality" targets artistic photographs and their publication in magazines to understand how photographers stage rites de passage in sport and within homosocial groups. How do the images reflect or reject the behavior of male adolescents described by youth sociology? Section 4 "Intersections of queer adolescence: Masculinities between sexualization and dis:identification in research and art", focusses on queer adolescences, their photographic representation as well as the resulting ambivalences thereof.
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