About hegemonic and dissident masculinities in Medellín City

Abstract

The conceptual construction of this article starts from the category of social imaginaries around masculinities in the city of Medellín. It begins with the category of social imaginaries proposed by the philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis, which considers the existence of some instituted and other instituting imaginaries at the social level, in order to analyze the category of hegemonic masculinity, proposed by Raewyn Connell, as that masculinity that has a social dominance and imposes certain ways of being for men in each society, creating some subordinate ones, according to the author; She then goes on to propose the existence of dissident masculinities, understanding them as those that do not place themselves in the position of subordinates, but rather that question the dominance and social control imposed by the former, these being instituting ways of being proposed by groups of men who do not enroll under the tutelage of hegemonic or subordinate masculinity and, in this way, show the dialectic understood by Castoriadis between the instituted and the instituting.