%0 Journal Article
%T Narratives in Reconstituting, Reaffirming, and (Re)traditionalizing Identities:  Othering the Nonnormative
%A Garth Stahl
%J Men and Masculinities
%@ 1552-6828
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1097184X17696178
%X The practice of othering has been widely documented in sociological research relative to social networks, ethnicity/race, sexuality, and place. This article considers othering as a strategy to mark identity boundaries and reaffirm the habitus in a small, qualitative sample of twenty-three white working-class boys from South London, aged fourteen to sixteen years, who self-identified as Boremund boys. The research relied heavily on visual methods and Bourdieu¡¯s theoretical tools to explore how images of transgression influenced the boys¡¯ conception of their own identity as centered upon a distinct version of normative race, class, and gender or othering the nonnormative behavior within their locale. The data show how white working-class boys monitor and police what they perceive as a normative white identity. As a result, the habitus of the Boremund boys engages with complex work to reconcile competing and contrasting conceptions of ordinary, white, working-class male in South London
%K white working-class boys
%K (re)traditionalization
%K habitus
%K identity work
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1097184X17696178