Negotiating the ‘Kiwi Bloke’: accessing mosaic masculinities through Afro-Brazilian sport in New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Abstract
The ‘kiwi bloke’ – practical, tough, and unemotional – is a national archetype of masculinity based on a colonial settler history in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Such nationally specific masculinities, however, are always created in relation to international forces. This study reveals the ways men negotiate the ‘kiwi bloke’ identity through their participation in an Afro-Brazilian martial art: capoeira. On one hand, Capoeira in New Zealand/Aotearoa offers participants access to alternative masculinities, including promoting collectivity, learning physical proximity, singing, and dancing. On the other hand, the congruence of Afro-Brazilian machismo and dominant white-settler masculinities in New Zealand/Aotearoa means that the ‘kiwi bloke’ is ever-present among capoeira practitioners. Coles (Coles, T., 2008. Finding space in the field of masculinity. Journal of sociology, 44(3), 233–248) concept of ‘mosaic masculinities’ helps to capture how men who play capoeira negotiate multiple dominant and subordinate masculine characteristics while retaining their gender privilege. This article demonstrates the complexity of mosaic masculinities and the importance of understanding multiple national social constructions in understanding local performances of masculinity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.024 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".