Workshop organized by GEXcel Theme 2 at Tema Genus, Linköping University.

Transnationalisation and virtualisation take many forms and have many implications for men and gender relations. They comprise acutely contradictory processes, with multiple forms of difference and absence for both men in power and those dispossessed through, for example, forced migration. Different transnationalisations problematise taken-for-granted national and organisational contexts, and men there in many ways. This workshop considers some diverse examples of these processes, and their implications for men, masculinities and men’s practices, and research on these issues.

This workshop centers on questions of how economy and “globalization” are constituted by and themselves are constituting gender order/s, and how such orders can be understood and interpreted in relation to men and masculinities.

In which changeable ways does local and regional constructions of masculinity show themselves in a “globalized” world? How can changes be described and understood?

How can the connections between local, institutional, and global gender relations and construction of masculinities be criticized, described, and interpreted?

Which theoretical problems and possibilities can be seen?

Workshop departicipants and titles of paper presentations:

10.30-12.15:

Professor Jeff Hearn, Linköping University: Hegemony, Transnationalisation and Virtualisation: MNCs and ICTs.

Ph.D.-studerende Helen Longlands, University of London, Institute for Education: Men in Power: Masculinities and Fatherhood in Global Corporations.

Post. Doc. Fataneh Farahani, Linköping University: Cultural and Racial Politics of Representation: A study of Diasporic Masculinities among Iranian Men.

13.15-15.00:

Ph.D.-student Alp Biricik, Linköping University: In the Darkrooms of Cyberspace: The (Re)Production of Gray/Queer Male Subjectivities in the Transnational Context.

Ph.D.-student Mia Spangenberg, University of Washington, Seattle Department of Scandinavian Studies: Men and Masculinities in a Direct Access Society—The Case of Ilkka Kanerva.

Download abstracts til denne workshop here.