Full Description
This volume is an essential reference for designing, analysing and reflecting on field research. It advances the literature on gender by taking a specific focus on masculinities. The book is organised into four sections: hegemonic and heteronormative masculinities, performing heteronormative masculinities, situated masculinities and paternal masculinities. The chapters explore the question of what it means to be a 'man' and definitions of masculinities. These reflexive accounts of gendered field experiences further the call for gender positionality in research and will aid tourism researchers and other transdisciplinary scholars. It is a useful tool for supervisors, ethics committee members and researchers (male and female).
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Nigel Morgan and Annette Pritchard
Introduction - Issues in the Field: Masculinities in Masculine Spaces
Brooke A. Porter, Heike A. Schänzel and Joseph M. Cheer
Part 1: Hegemonic and Heteronormative Masculinities
1 It's Okay to Cry: Encouraging Emotional Writing Among Male Tourism Scholars
Jack Shepherd
2 When Is a Hegemonic Male Not a Hegemonic Male? Personal Reflections of a Tourism(ish) Researcher
Neil Carr
3 Exploring the Expression of the Masculine in Adventure Activities: A Personal Reflection
Mark B. Orams
4 Meditations on Masculinity: Encounters in Salty Research Spaces
Jacques D. Mahler-Coetzee
Part 2: Performing Heteronormative Masculinities
5 Performing and Negotiating Filipino Masculinities in the Field
Richard S. Aquino
6 How Masculinity Creeps In: Awkward Field Encounters of a Male Researcher
Can-Seng Ooi
Part 3: Situated Masculinities
7 A Tale of Two Researchers: Masculinity in Cross-cultural Contexts
Joseph M. Cheer and Alan A. Lew
8 Gender, Identity and Discomfort: Negotiating Self and Context in the Field
Dominic Lapointe
9 Journeying into Yogaland: A Cautionary Tale of a White Guy's Perspectives on Yoga-related Fieldwork in Japan
Patrick McCartney
10 A Mzungu in Kenya: Dissonant Masculinity and Ethnographic Field Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gary Lacey
11 Doing Fieldwork in Palestine: Checkpoints, Access Restrictions, Security and Well-being
Rami K. Isaac
Part 4: Paternal Masculinities
12 Finding Gender at the Intersection of Family and Field: Family Presences in Sweden
Stuart Reid
13 Fatherhood in the Field: Reflections on Kinship, Identity and Ethnographic Research
Michael A. Di Giovine
Masculinities in Tourism Research: Implications and Conclusions
Joseph M. Cheer, Heike A. Schänzel and Brooke A. Porter
Index
