Books as happy objects: on Swedish rural masculine reader identities

IF 2.1 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

NORMA Pub Date : 2021-03-23 DOI:10.1080/18902138.2021.1903760

Stig-Börje Asplund

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT Joining the research that emphasises the importance of the social and cultural context for reading and masculinities, this article focuses on the significance of book collection for a rural working-class man’s relationship to reading. The data consists of a series of life story interviews, conducted as go-along interviews, with a Swedish rural working-class man in his 60s who collects books. Using theories of class, masculinity and place, and drawing on (Sara Ahmed’s [2010]. The promise of happiness. Duke University Press.) theory of emotions and affect, this study illuminates the intersection of reading practices, identity and masculinity while showing how a working-class man’s reading practices align with and deviate from normative conceptions of being a man within the studied context. Highlighting the practices of interacting with books on a physical level – collecting, holding, sorting, viewing covers, and so on – the article also shows how these tactile practices contribute to a rural working-class man’s development of a reader identity.

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书是快乐的对象:论瑞典农村男性读者的身份

摘要本文加入了一项强调社会和文化背景对阅读和男性气质的重要性的研究，重点探讨了书籍收藏对农村工人阶级男性阅读关系的意义。这些数据包括一系列生活故事采访，这些采访是对一名60多岁的瑞典农村工人阶级男子进行的，他收集书籍。本研究运用阶级、男性气质和位置理论，并借鉴（Sara Ahmed的[2010]。幸福的承诺。杜克大学出版社。）情感和情感理论，阐明了阅读实践的交叉点，身份和男子气概，同时展示了在所研究的背景下，工人阶级男性的阅读实践是如何与男性的规范概念相一致和偏离的。文章强调了在物理层面上与书籍互动的实践——收集、拿着、分类、看封面等等——还展示了这些触觉实践如何促进农村工人阶级对读者身份的发展。

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NORMA Social Sciences-Gender Studies

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

14.30%

发文量

期刊介绍： NORMA is an international journal for high quality research concerning masculinity in its many forms. This is an interdisciplinary journal concerning questions about the body, about social and textual practices, and about men and masculinities in social structures. We aim to advance theory and methods in this field. We hope to present new themes for critical studies of men and masculinities, and develop new approaches to ''intersections'' with race, sexuality, class and coloniality. We are eager to have conversations about the role of men and boys, and the place of masculinities, in achieving gender equality and social equality. The journal was begun in the Nordic region; we now strongly invite scholarly work from all parts of the world, as well as research about transnational relations and spaces. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and submission is online via Editorial Manager.