ABSTRACT

Amidst essentialising discourses that circulate through educational spaces (e.g. that ‘boys will be boys’ or that boys are inherently aggressive), there is a need for more research that explores adolescent identities as complex and relational. This study considers the affective-discursive practices that both constrain and enable teenage boys to discourage physical fights. Critical discourse analysis techniques, informed by critical affect studies and feminist poststructuralism, were applied to interviews with four young men to illuminate how dynamic ways of ‘doing boy’ are always under creation. The discussion calls for moving beyond an individualistic discourse of ‘good choices’ in response to peer aggression, instead working more collaboratively with youth to examine the affect-laden discourses and relationships that shape themselves and their societies.

摘要

在通过教育空间传播的本质化话语（例如，“男孩将成为男孩”或男孩天生具有攻击性）中，需要更多的研究来探索青少年身份的复杂性和关联性。这项研究考虑了情感话语的实践，这些实践既限制了十几岁的男孩，也使他们能够阻止身体打架。以批判性情感研究和女权主义后结构主义为基础的批判性话语分析技术被应用于对四名年轻人的采访，以阐明“做男孩”的动态方式是如何始终处于创造之中的。讨论呼吁超越“好选择”的个人主义话语以应对同伴的攻击，