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These :oungsters \\CIT intenie\\cd indh iduall::, and in fixus groups. at a centre called Horizons. near Cape Tcm n. The author eamines ho\\ the,,e boys constitute their fragile sub_iecthitics through multiple. contradictory discourses or masculinit:, and hO\\ the: in,est in these discourses in attempts partial I:, to allcviak the multiple anieties they npericnce in their Ii Yes. The hO s inserted themscles \\ ithin three main discomses of masculinitY. . . H:, per-masculinit:, \\as constructed through violent gang acti ity and subjugating women. Traditional masculinity involved sentiments or prm ide and protect. exerted in a non- iolent manner. Finally. mythopoetic masculinit:, CL1mprises open emotional epressinn. especial I:, tm,ards their mothers. Although these ho::-s can·t \\in.as the material and discursie odds are stacked too heaily against them. thi-, docs not mean the:, arc automaton'>. simpl:, the dupes of fate. I he: exen agency through unique contigurations Llfthcse discourses. temporarily becoming ·1-foll:,,ood heroes· and creating gangster ·brotherhoods· \\hich resist the social dislol..'.ation produced b:, their historical situation. To some degree. then. ·democrac:, ·s children· use the ver:, discourses \\ hich llXm and I irn it them. to exert agenc:. The author argues that b:, studying these young men as inherently divided and cornple eperiential beings. as \\ell as imoluntaril: inserted into the social and material r..:alms. \\e can begin to understand their lives in a meaningful ,,a:, and come to terms with the terrifying acts the: commit.","abstract_html":"Th is resl..'.an.:h project is an eploration into the Ii es of 25 or· democracy· s chi ldrl..'.n ·. Arrikaans speaking. coloured adolescents ,rnaiting trial. all of \\hom .'.Orne from powrty-strickcn. violent areas on the Cape Flats. These boys li e in ah istorical context \\ here the new South African dcmucrac: has not (yet) de Ii ered benefits for all of its ·chi ldre11°. This is the contet in which I am eploring their di ided. ambialent and paradoical masculinities. These :oungsters \\CIT intenie\\cd indh iduall::, and in fixus groups. at a centre called Horizons. near Cape Tcm n. The author eamines ho\\ the,,e boys constitute their fragile sub_iecthitics through multiple. contradictory discourses or masculinit:, and hO\\ the: in,est in these discourses in attempts partial I:, to allcviak the multiple anieties they npericnce in their Ii Yes. The hO s inserted themscles \\ ithin three main discomses of masculinitY. . . H:, per-masculinit:, \\as constructed through violent gang acti ity and subjugating women. Traditional masculinity involved sentiments or prm ide and protect. exerted in a non- iolent manner. Finally. mythopoetic masculinit:, CL1mprises open emotional epressinn. especial I:, tm,ards their mothers. Although these ho::-s can·t \\in.as the material and discursie odds are stacked too heaily against them. thi-, docs not mean the:, arc automaton'>. simpl:, the dupes of fate. I he: exen agency through unique contigurations Llfthcse discourses. temporarily becoming ·1-foll:,,ood heroes· and creating gangster ·brotherhoods· \\hich resist the social dislol..'.ation produced b:, their historical situation. To some degree. then. ·democrac:, ·s children· use the ver:, discourses \\ hich llXm and I irn it them. to exert agenc:. 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