Representations of ‘progressive fatherhood’ in postcolonial Zimbabwe: binaries, ambivalences and ambiguities

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1332/204674321X16097451930178

S. Mitchell

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to explore how the Swedish ideal of ‘progressive fatherhood’ is represented in the context of a photo competition and exhibition organised by the Swedish Embassy in postcolonial Zimbabwe. Drawing on Rose’s (2016) method of visual discourse analysis (VDA), the article examines how Zimbabwean fathers are represented as being progressive through both image and text, and the extent to which these representations could be seen to challenge or ‘mimic’ (Bhaba, 1984) the Swedish ideal of ‘progressive fatherhood’. While some of these representations reproduced certain binaries, they also presented the kind of ambivalent, ‘postfeminist’ relationship with gender equality that has been identified in other contexts. Overall, these representations were found to go beyond colonial mimicry by challenging and extending the Swedish ideal of ‘progressive fatherhood’ beyond the context of the middle-class, nuclear family.

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后殖民津巴布韦“进步的父亲”的表现:二元性、矛盾性和模糊性

本文旨在探讨瑞典在后殖民时期的津巴布韦大使馆举办的摄影比赛和展览如何体现瑞典“进步父亲”的理想。借鉴Rose(2016)的视觉话语分析(VDA)方法，本文研究了津巴布韦父亲是如何通过图像和文本表现为进步的，以及这些表现在多大程度上可以被视为挑战或“模仿”(Bhaba, 1984)瑞典“进步父亲”的理想。虽然其中一些再现了某些二元对立，但它们也呈现了一种矛盾的、“后女权主义”与性别平等的关系，这种关系在其他语境中已经被识别出来。总的来说，这些表现超越了殖民模仿，挑战和扩展了瑞典“进步父亲”的理想，超越了中产阶级核心家庭的背景。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.