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- Izugbara, Chimaroke, et al.
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Ethnicity, livelihoods, masculinity, and health among Luo men in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya
- 2013
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Ingår i: Ethnicity and Health. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1355-7858 .- 1465-3419. ; 18:5, s. 483-498
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background. Previous research suggests that ethnic self-identity has little consequence for objective health outcomes compared to the structural dimensions of ethnicity. Methods. Using qualitative data, we investigated perceptions of ethnicity in relation to health among Luo men in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Results. While recognizing the complicated cultural origin of poor health, responding Luo men stressed on gender and everyday livelihood situations as being more critical for their health than Luo customs. Recognition of the structural causes of ill-health among the men overlapped with lay notions derived from particular expressions of Luo culture in urban slum contexts. To some extent, respondents regarded the performance of their sense of ethnic identity as protective, though they also admitted to the health-damaging repercussions of some of the ways they enacted aspects of Luo culture. Conclusion. Ethnic beliefs that link particular enactments of local customs with health outcomes may motivate the performance of cultural identity in ways that can produce critical health outcomes. Keywords: Kenya; Luo men; masculinity; poor health; slums; cultural beliefs; poverty
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- Izugbara, Chimaroke
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‘Life is Not Designed to be Easy for Men’: Masculinity and Poverty Among Urban Marginalized Kenyan Men
- 2015
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Ingår i: Gender Issues. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1098-092X .- 1936-4717. ; 32:2, s. 121-137
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Current analyses of poverty and economic marginality in relation to masculinity continue to ignore the direct perspectives of men whose lives form the crux of such investigations. I draw on interview and ethnographic data from two slums in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city to address poor men’s constructions and performance of manliness in relation to poverty. Men acknowledged economic adversity as both a major constraint to their masculinity and a significant dynamic in their own evolution and development into ‘proper’ men. In striving for locally-valued masculine identities, particularly breadwinnerhood, Nairobi’s poor men advanced new values, narratives and strategies that both projected them as socially-respectable men and reconstituted their normatively ‘un-masculine’ actions as macho. Ironies suffuse masculinity in the slums of Nairobi, and are, in large part, driven by the critical and complex social dynamics and popular subjectivities, which poor men navigate while seeking to make valued masculinity both notionally and practically accessible for themselves. © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
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- Izugbara, Chimaroke, et al.
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Men, masculinity, and community development in Kenyan slums
- 2014
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Ingår i: Community Development. - : Routledge. - 1557-5330 .- 1944-7485. ; 45:1, s. 32-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is limited research on masculinity in relation to community development. Using ethnographic and interview data from two slums in Kenya and building on one of the more well-known definitions of community development, we explore men?s narratives of themselves in relation to community development. We highlight how men's cognizance of the structural and contextual constraints to the development of their communities intersected with both a feeling that they have helped to hamper community development and an adamant sense of their own criticality and centrality in ensuring it. While repudiating the idea that they have to change in order for their community to progress, men also generally hinged community development on their tenacious pursuit of traditional masculinity scripts. The rejection of mainstream masculinity norms as the basis for community progress will not resonate consistently among men. Social and community development work with men that fails to acknowledge them as gendered people may not succeed. © 2014 Community Development Society.
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- Izugbara, Chimaroke, et al.
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The Management of Unwanted Pregnancy Among Women in Nairobi, Kenya
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sexual Health. - : Routledge. - 1931-7611 .- 1931-762X. ; 26:2, s. 100-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives: This study probed both the meanings women ascribe to their unwanted pregnancies and the drivers of their choices in relation to the management of such pregnancies. Methods: Cross-sectional qualitative in-depth individual interviews were conducted with 80 women and girls in Nairobi, Kenya. Results: Gender, livelihoods, morality, marital status, and male partners exerted extensively complex and multidimensional influence on women's management of their unintentional pregnancies. For instance, although gender norms were frequently invoked to justify terminating unwanted pregnancies, they also regularly provided strong motivations for carrying such pregnancies to term. Conclusions: Urgently needed are programs and policies that support women to avoid unwanted pregnancies and help them respond safely and pragmatically to such pregnancies when they occur. © 2014 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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