Full Description
Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific focuses on the plasticity and contingent nature of Pacific Island masculinities over the course of colonial and postcolonial histories. The several case histories concern the use of sports to recuperate but also refashion past masculinities in the name of contemporary masculine pride; the effects of market participation on younger males; how urbanisation and migration set the stage for experimenting with male gender and sexuality; the impacts of military and labour histories on local masculinities; masculinity and violence in war and gender violence; and structural violence and disruptions in male gender identity. Depicting contemporary Pacific Island societies as a space of gender invention and pluralism as indigenous gender regimes respond to the stimulations of transnational flows, the book asks a key historical question: Do emergent masculinities signal a rupture, or some continuity with, past masculinities? This book was originally published as a special double issue of The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology.
Contents
Introduction: Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific 1. Bati as Bodily Labour: Rethinking Masculinity and Violence in Fiji 2. Once were Warriors, now are Rugby Players? Control and Agency in the Historical Trajectory of the Māori Formulations of Masculinity in Rugby 3. Inequality and Changing Masculinities Among the Gende in Papua New Guinea: The 'Good', the 'Bad' and the 'Very Bad' 4. Changing Generational Values and New Masculinities Amongst Smallholder Export Cash Crop Producers in Papua New Guinea 5. Being 'Like a Woman': Fa'afāfine and Samoan Masculinity 6. Men of War, Men of Peace: Changing Masculinities in Vanuatu 7. I Could Be the Last Man: Changing Masculinities in Enga Society 8. Masculine Sexuality, Violence and Sexual Exploitation in Micronesia
