1st Edition

Unsustainable Institutions of Men Transnational Dispersed Centres, Gender Power, Contradictions

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

How are men, masculinities and gender power implicated within global institutions? How are global institutions to be understood in terms of men, masculinities and gender power? What are men up to in such arenas as: global finance, corporate law, military intelligence, world sporting bodies and nationalist politics? Unsustainable Institutions of Men examines men’s dealings in transnational... Read more
 

Introduction



Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Transnational Dispersed Centres and Immanent Contradictions



Jeff Hearn, Marina Hughson and Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila





PART I: Economy







  1. Interrogating Transnational Masculinities, Fatherhood and the Institution of Men: Rethinking Gender Equity in Global Finance and Large International Law Firms




  2. Helen Longlands and Richard Collier







  3. The Innovation Ecosystem: Interrogating [Trans]national Gender [Un]sustainability in the New Business Centre




  4. Richard Howson and Greg Kerr







  5. Transnational Football’s Male Elite: The Unsustainability of FIFA?




  6. John Hughson and Marina Hughson







  7. Hegemony Self-critique: How Men in Finance Question Aspects of Masculine and Economic Hegemony from Within




  8. Anika Thym





    PART II: Politics





  9. The Ends of Imagination: Hindu Nationalism, Masculine Networks and Political Transformation




  10. Prem Kumar (PK) Vijayan







  11. Intentional Impossibility: Sustainable Transnational (Male) Clientelism Versus an Unsustainable Environment




  12. Marina Hughson







  13. Contradictory Consciousness: Men and Feminist Activism in the Caribbean




  14.   Tonya Haynes





    PART III: Technologies





  15. Men, Automobility, Movements, and the Environment: Imagining (Un)sustainable, Automated Transport Futures




  16. Dag Balkmar and Jeff Hearn







  17. ‘The Performing Rights of Man’: The Global Music Industries and Transnational Hegemonies of Men




  18. Sam de Boise







  19. Electronic Pornography and the Transnational Assemblage of Sexuality




  20. Karen Gabriel







  21. Gender Trouble in Cyberwar: Multiple Masculinities and Femininities of a Cyberspy in the War on Terror




  22. Winifred R. Poster





    PART IV: Bodies





  23. The Dynamics of Displacement: Diasporic Masculinities between Margins and Centres




  24. Sofia Aboim and Pedro Vasconcelos







  25. Transnational "Winner" Masculinities: Modernity and the Transformation of Intimacy




  26. Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila







  27. Men and Masculinities Offside? The [Un]sustainability of the Power of Men




Iva Šmídová





Contributors



Index



Biography

Jeff Hearn is Senior Professor in Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK; Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; and Professor Extraordinarius, University of South Africa



Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Socia Justice, College of Social Sciences and Law, University College Dublin, Ireland.





Marina Hughson is Research Professor / Principal Researcher at the Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research, Yugoslavia; and Director of Altera MB.