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Exploring discourses of masculinities amongst young adult men in the Western Cape who stutter
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/123718 Exploring discourses of masculinities amongst young adult men in the Western Cape who stutter Isaacs, Dane Henry Swartz, Leslie Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Psychology. UCTD Ethnology Discourse analysis Focused group interviewing Stutterers Masculinity Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Stuttering has traditionally been described as a multifaceted communication disorder that affects approximately 1% of the global population. The prevalence of stuttering is four times greater in males than in females. For the last few decades, researchers have examined the personal and social experiences of people who stutter. However, issues of masculinity which may be associated with disabling aspects of stuttering have not been adequately addressed in the existing body of knowledge. In this qualitative study, my aim was to present a broad narrative of the disabling experience of stuttering and its relationship to issues of masculinity. It was from an insider position and a disability studies perspective that I approached my research study. Therefore, in my dissertation, I firstly present two analytic autoethnographic accounts of my personal disabling experiences of stuttering as a way of understanding broader issues of stuttering and disablement. I then move on to explore the discourses of masculinities among 15 young adult men, in the Western Cape Province, who stutter, through a biopsychosocial model of disability. In addition, I also explore participants’ understanding of stuttering as a disability. Data for the empirical aspect of my research study were collected through a series of 49 semi- structured interviews and two focus group discussions, and analysed according to a phenomenological approach, using Edley’s approach to discourse analysis and influenced by the affective turn in social research. The findings showed that men in my research study predominately relied on hegemonic ideals to formulate their masculine identities. However, stuttering was viewed as a barrier for the performance of hegemonic masculinities. As result, men reported a reduced self-esteem and feeling disabled, emasculated, and shameful as men who stutter. For a subset of men who identified as Muslim, there was an overlay of what they saw as religious and cultural expectations of what is required of men in the context of Islam specifically. For several men, these experiences of disablement motivated the pursual of ableist norms of masculinities. Men in this regard were determined to improve their performance of hegemonic masculinities through gaining control of their stutter. For other men in my research study, these experiences of oppression and disablement encouraged the rejection of dominant ideals of masculinities and the construction of affirmative masculine identities consistent with their impairment. The findings further presented participants’ understanding of stuttering as a disability. Some men in my research study did not identify stuttering as a disability. Instead, stuttering was viewed as a developmental speech disorder that can be controlled and managed. Other participants, however, identified stuttering as a disability, subjectively positioning themselves as disabled or rejecting the stigmatised identity of a disabled man. The study concludes by outlining recommendations for interventions and future research into stuttering in the context of a disability studies framework. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Tradisioneel word hakkelry as ‘n kommunikasieversteuring met meervoudige fasette wat ongeveer 1% van die wêreldwye bevolking affekteer, beskryf. Die voorkoms van hakkelry is vier maal meer in mans as in vrouens. Navorsers het die afgelope paar dekades die persoonlike en sosiale ervaringe van persone wat hakkel ondersoek. Kwessies betreffende manlikheid, wat met stremmende dele van hakkelry geassosieer mag word, is egter nog nie genoegsaam in die bestaande kennisbasis aangespreek nie. Ek het, in hierdie kwalitatiewe studie, ten doel gehad om ‘n breë narratief van die stremmende ervaring van hakkelry en die verhouding daarvan tot manlikheidskwessies, daar te stel. Ek het die navorsingstudie van ‘n binnestaander posisie en gestremdheidstudie perspektief benader. Derhalwe, het ek, eerstens, twee analitiese outo-etnografiese berigte van my persoonlike, stremmende ervaringe van hakkelry verskaf, in ‘n poging om breër kwessies van hakkelry en gestremdheid te verstaan. Ek gaan dan verder en ondersoek die manlikheidsdiskoerse van 15 jong, volwasse mans, in die Wes-Kaapprovinsie, wat hakkel, vanuit ‘n biopsigososiale gestremdheidsmodel. Data vir die empiriese deel van my navorsingstudie is ingesamel deur ‘n reeks van 49 semi- gestruktureerde onderhoude en twee fokusgroepbesprekings, en is geanaliseer volgens ‘n fenomenologiese benadering deur Edley se benadering tot diskoers-analise te gebruik en verder beïnvloed deur die affektiewe koersverandering in sosiale navorsing. Die bevindinge het aangedui dat mans in die navorsingstudie hoofsaaklik op heersende ideale, om hul manlike identiteite te formuleer, gesteun het. Hakkelry is egter beskou as ‘n hindernis tot die verrigting van heersende manlikhede. Derhalwe het mans ‘n verlaagde selfbeeld en gevoelens van gestremdheid, ontmanning en skaamte as mans, wat hakkel, gerapporteer. Vir ‘n onderafdeling van mans wat as Moslem geïdentifiseer het, was daar ‘n deklaag van wat hulle bestempel het as geloofs- en kulturele verwagtinge van hulle as mans, spesifiek in die konteks van Islam. Verskeie mans is deur die ervaringe van gestremdheid gemotiveer om diskriminerende bekwaamheidsnorme van manlikheid na te streef. Mans was, in hierdie opsig, vasberade om hul verrigting van heersende manlikhede te verbeter deur oor hul hakkelry beheer te neem. Ander mans in die navorsingstudie is deur hierdie ervaringe van onderdrukking en gestremdheid aangemoedig om die dominante ideale van manlikheid en die konstruksie van regstellende manlike identiteite, wat met hul gestremdheid saamgeloop het, te verwerp. Die bevindinge het verder deelnemers se verstaan van hakkelry as ‘n gestremdheid verteenwoordig. Sommige mans in my navorsingstudie het hakkelry nie as gestremdheid geïdentifiseer nie. In plaas daarvan, is hakkelry beskou as ‘n ontwikkelingspraakversteuring wat beheer en bestuur kan word. Ander deelnemers het egter hakkelry as ‘n gestremdheid geïdentifiseer, waardeur hul hulself subjektief as gestremd geposisioneer het of die gestigmatiseerde identiteit van die gestremde man verwerp het. Die studie sluit af deur aanbevelings vir intervensies en toekomstige navorsing in hakkelry, in die konteks van ‘n gestremdheidstudieraamwerk, uiteen te sit Doctoral 2021-10-22T15:11:09Z 2021-12-22T14:17:35Z 2021-10-22T15:11:09Z 2021-12-22T14:17:35Z 2021-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123718 en_ZA 258 pages application/pdf |
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