Rethinking Transnational Men: Beyond, Between and Within Nations

268 Pages·2013·2.336 MB·English

by  Jeff Hearn, Marina Blagojevi, Katherine Harrison

Rethinking Transnational Men
The world is becoming more transnational. This edited collection exam-
ines how the immense transnational changes in the contemporary world
are being produced by and are aff ecting diff erent men and masculinities.
It seeks to shift debates on men, masculinities and gender relations from
the strictly local and national context to much greater concern with the
transnational and global. Established and rising scholars from Asia, Aus-
tralia, Europe and North America explore subjects including economies
and business corporations; sexualities and the sex trade; information and
communication technologies and cyberspace; migration; war, the military
and militarism; politics; nationalism; and symbolism and image-making.
Jeff Hearn is a UK Academician in the Social Sciences; Research Professor
in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Gender Studies), Örebro
University, Sweden; Professor in Management and Organization, Hanken
School of Economics, Finland; and Professor of Sociology, University of
Huddersfi eld, UK.
Marina Blagojević is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Criminological
and Sociological Research, Belgrade, Serbia.
Katherine Harrison is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department for the
Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.
Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
CORE EDITORIAL GROUP: DR. KATHY DAVIS (INSTITUTE FOR HISTORY
AND CULTURE, UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS), PROFESSOR JEFF HEARN
(MANAGING EDITOR; ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN; HANKEN SCHOOL OF
ECONOMICS, FINLAND; UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD, UK), PROFESSOR ANNA
G. JÓNASDÓTTIR (ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN), PROFESSOR NINA LYKKE
(MANAGING EDITOR; LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN), PROFESSOR CHANDRA
TALPADE MOHANTY (SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, USA), PROFESSOR ELŻBIETA
H. OLEKSY (UNIVERSITY OF ŁÓDŹ, POLAND), DR. ANDREA PETÖ (CENTRAL
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, HUNGARY), PROFESSOR ANN PHOENIX (INSTITUTE OF
EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UK)
Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality is committed to
the development of new feminist and profeminist perspectives on changing gen-
der relations, with special attention to:
• Intersections between gender and power differentials based on age, class,
dis/abilities, ethnicity, nationality, racialisation, sexuality, violence, and
other social divisions.
• Intersections of societal dimensions and processes of continuity and change:
culture, economy, generativity, polity, sexuality, science and technology;
• Embodiment: Intersections of discourse and materiality, and of sex and
gender.
• Transdisciplinarity: intersections of humanities, social sciences, medical,
technical and natural sciences.
• Intersections of different branches of feminist theorizing, including: histor-
ical materialist feminisms, postcolonial and anti-racist feminisms, radical
feminisms, sexual difference feminisms, queerfeminisms, cyberfemi-
nisms, posthuman feminisms, critical studies on men and masculinities.
• A critical analysis of the travelling of ideas, theories and concepts.
• A politics of location, refl exivity and transnational contextualising that
refl ects the basis of the Series framed within European diversity and trans-
national power relations.
1 Feminist Studies 2 Women, Civil Society and the
A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Geopolitics of Democratization
Methodology and Writing Denise M. Horn
Nina Lykke
3 Sexuality, Gender and Power 11 Imagining Masculinities
Intersectional and Transnational Spatial and Temporal
Perspectives Representation and Visual Culture
Edited by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Katarzyna Kosmala
Valerie Bryson and Kathleen B.
Jones 12 Rethinking Transnational Men
Beyond, Between and Within
4 The Limits of Gendered Nations
Citizenship Edited by Jeff Hearn, Marina
Contexts and Complexities Blagojević and Katherine
Edited by Elżbieta H. Oleksy, Harrison
Jeff Hearn and Dorota Golańska
5 Theories and Methodologies
in Postgraduate Feminist
Research
Researching Differently
Edited by Rosemarie Buikema,
Gabriele Griffi n and Nina Lykke
6 Making Gender, Making War
Violence, Military and
Peacekeeping Practices
Edited by Annica Kronsell
and Erika Svedberg
7 Emergent Writing Methodologies
in Feminist Studies
Edited by Mona Livholts
8 Gender and Sexuality in Online
Game Cultures
Passionate Play
Jenny Sundén
and Malin Sveningsson
9 Heterosexuality in Theory and
Practice
Chris Beasley, Heather Brook
and Mary Holmes
10 Tourism and the Globalization
of Emotions
The Intimate Economy of Tango
Maria Törnqvist
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Rethinking Transnational Men
Beyond, Between and Within Nations
Edited by Jeff Hearn, Marina Blagojević
and Katherine Harrison
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Rethinking transnational men : beyond, between and within nations /
edited by Jeff Hearn, Marina Blagojevic and Katherine Harrison.
pages cm. -- (Routledge advances in feminist studies and
intersectionality ; 12)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Men—Identity. 2. Masculinity. 3. Transnationalism.
4. Emigration and immigration—Social aspects. I. Hearn, Jeff,
1947– II. Blagojevic, Marina. III. Harrison, Katherine.
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Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xiii
Acknowledgments xv
1 Introducing and Rethinking Tr ansnational Men 1
JEFF HEARN AND MARINA BLAGOJEVIĆ
PART I
Rethinking Transnational Men beyond the Nation
Introduction 27
JEFF HEARN
2 Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Transnational Context 29
CHRIS BEASLEY
3 Embodying Serious Power:
Managerial Masculinities in the Security Sector 45
RAEWYN CONNELL
4 The “Agency” of Men: Male Buyers in the Global Sex Industry 59
SHEILA JEFFREYS
5 Geek Myths: Technologies, Masculinities, Globalizations 76
DAVID BELL
viii Contents
6 Hegemony, Transpatriarchies, ICTs, and Virtualization 91
JEFF HEARN, ALP BIRICIK, HELGA SADOWSKI, AND KATHERINE HARRISON
PART II
Rethinking Transnational Men between Nations
Introduction 111
MARINA BLAGOJEVIĆ
7 Subversions of Techno-Masculinity:
Indian ICT Professionals in the Global Economy 113
WINIFRED R. POSTER
8 Why Masculinity is Still an Important Category:
(Trans)Migrant Men and the Migration Experience 134
RICHARD HOWSON
9 Racializing Masculinities in Diff erent Diasporic Spaces:
Iranian-Born Men’s Navigation of Race, Masculinities,
and the Politics of Diff erence 147
FATANEH FARAHANI
10 Transnationalization and its Absence:
The Balkan Semiperipheral Perspective on Masculinities 163
MARINA BLAGOJEVIĆ
PART III
Rethinking Transnational Men within Nations
Introduction 187
KATHERINE HARRISON
11 Hegemonic Masculinities and the “Selling” of War:
Lessons from George W. Bush 189
JAMES W. MESSERSCHMIDT
Contents ix
12 Nationalist Reactions and Masculinity Following Hrant
Dink’s Assassination: Reconfi gurations of Nation-States
and Implications for the Processes of Transnationalization 204
NURSELI YEŞIM SÜNBÜLOĞLU
13 Zooming In and Out:
Historical Icons of Masculinity within and across Nations 219
TETYANA BUREYCHAK
Contributors 239
Index 245