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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 processes across the economy, politics, technologies and bodies. In exploring the men's domination of institutions in national and transnational realms this volume underpins a novel approach built around multiple "dispersed centres" of men's power. Indeed, in critical discussions of men and masculinities there has been a gradual shift in focus from the local, so-called 'ethnographic moment', to a broader view encompassing several dynamics (e.g. global, transnational, international, postcolonial and the global north-south). Building on this conceptual move, Unsustainable Institutions of Men focuses on pinpointing masculine actions and influences that support and enact transnational processes, disclosing those connections and examining institutional alternatives which could contribute to more inclusive and democratic transnational dialogues.
Comprised of a range of international contributions, Unsustainable Institutions of Men will appeal to students, researchers, experts and activists seeking to understand the deep structural conditions of contemporary globalized threats, created by old and new patterns of gender power and transnational patriarchies.
Contents
Introduction
Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Transnational Dispersed Centres and Immanent Contradictions
Jeff Hearn, Marina Hughson and Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila
PART I: Economy
Interrogating Transnational Masculinities, Fatherhood and the Institution of Men: Rethinking Gender Equity in Global Finance and Large International Law Firms
Helen Longlands and Richard Collier
The Innovation Ecosystem: Interrogating [Trans]national Gender [Un]sustainability in the New Business Centre
Richard Howson and Greg Kerr
Transnational Football's Male Elite: The Unsustainability of FIFA?
John Hughson and Marina Hughson
Hegemony Self-critique: How Men in Finance Question Aspects of Masculine and Economic Hegemony from Within
Anika Thym
PART II: Politics
The Ends of Imagination: Hindu Nationalism, Masculine Networks and Political Transformation
Prem Kumar (PK) Vijayan
Intentional Impossibility: Sustainable Transnational (Male) Clientelism Versus an Unsustainable Environment
Marina Hughson
Contradictory Consciousness: Men and Feminist Activism in the Caribbean
Tonya Haynes
PART III: Technologies
Men, Automobility, Movements, and the Environment: Imagining (Un)sustainable, Automated Transport Futures
Dag Balkmar and Jeff Hearn
'The Performing Rights of Man': The Global Music Industries and Transnational Hegemonies of Men
Sam de Boise
Electronic Pornography and the Transnational Assemblage of Sexuality
Karen Gabriel
Gender Trouble in Cyberwar: Multiple Masculinities and Femininities of a Cyberspy in the War on Terror
Winifred R. Poster
PART IV: Bodies
The Dynamics of Displacement: Diasporic Masculinities between Margins and Centres
Sofia Aboim and Pedro Vasconcelos
Transnational "Winner" Masculinities: Modernity and the Transformation of Intimacy
Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila
Men and Masculinities Offside? The [Un]sustainability of the Power of Men
Iva Šmídová
Contributors
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