Local masculinities beyond images: youth, fatherhood, and tourism in the South Caribbean of Costa Rica

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dc.contributor.authorMeneses Zamora, Carolina
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeLorway, Robert (Anthropology) Thorpe, Jocelyn (Women's and Gender Studies)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorFrohlick, Susan (Anthropology)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-28T13:36:09Z
dc.date.available2017-07-28T13:36:09Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.degree.disciplineAnthropologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThe main objective of this thesis is to gain a better understanding of how local young men living in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, a small Afro-Caribbean tourism town in Costa Rica, imagine, perform, and negotiate masculinities and fatherhood, in particular, through the diverse intimate encounters they establish with tourist women. To meet this objective I utilized a “youth-centered” approach, which stressed a participatory methodology. By using a combination of photovoice and visual anthropology, participants were asked to take and comment on photographs relevant to their understandings and everyday performances of masculinity and fatherhood in relation to tourism. To address the dynamic and complex linkages between global tourism, youth, masculinities, and fatherhood I draw upon the theoretical contributions in the anthropologies of youth, critical theories of masculinities and fatherhood, and theories regarding the commodification of intimacy, many of which, in their contemporary formulations, are underpinned by theories of gender performativity.en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2017en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/32333
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectMasculinitiesen_US
dc.subjectCosta Ricaen_US
dc.subjectYouthen_US
dc.subjectTourismen_US
dc.subjectPhotovoiceen_US
dc.subjectFatherhooden_US
dc.subjectVisual Anthropologyen_US
dc.subjectAfro- Caribbeanen_US
dc.subjectTransnational intimaciesen_US
dc.titleLocal masculinities beyond images: youth, fatherhood, and tourism in the South Caribbean of Costa Ricaen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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