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- Aktas, Oya, et al.
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Men, masculinities and military organizations
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations. - London : Routledge. - 9781003193579 - 9781032045153 - 9781032045160 ; , s. 262-275
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Militaries and militarism are among the most obviously gendered of all organizational activities. The military is also one of the clearest arenas of social power, violence and killing in their many guises. Military matters are urgent, powerful and lethal. The ways armies and those in them are organized and act are literally questions of life and death for all concerned. This chapter brings together studies on men and masculinities with those in the military and military organizations. Men, militarism and the military are historically, profoundly and blatantly interconnected. These interconnections have often either been simply accepted or it has gone unnoticed that these military persons are largely men. Indeed, many, though not all, armies and other fighting forces of the world have been and still are armies composed mainly of men, young men and boys. Those engaged in active combat and direct fighting in wars are often young men and boys. In the chapter, we address the place of men and masculinities in some key organizational issues in military organization and militarism, most notably recruitment, hierarchies and segregations, disability and veterans, and the impacts of these organizations on civilians, before concluding remarks on wider processes and impacts, on research, scientific and technological organizations, on international relations and geopolitics, and on the environment.
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- Alsarve, Daniel, 1976-, et al.
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Beyond the public light : Political strongmen, masculine embodiment and sports organizations
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations. - London : Routledge. - 9781003193579 - 9781032045153 - 9781032045160
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter we expand the analysis of sports, organizations, and masculinity to include behaviour often hidden in private communications by broadening the definition of the ‘locker room’ to include social media and other online spaces. Drawing upon high-profile events, research on male-dominated sports, and arguments on sports and hegemonic masculinities, we illustrate how strongmen create locker room spaces to embody narratives of hegemonic masculinities that disparage and mock certain groups. Demonstrating their values and ideas on whiteness, masculinity, and domination, the strongmen’s misogynist, homophobic, and racist language constructs women, LGBTQ + individuals, and ethnic minorities as inferior. In particular, the weaponization of misogyny and homophobia serves as a warning not only to women and gay men, but also to ‘non-feminized’ heterosexual men whose behaviour or ideas fall outside dominant ‘normative’ constructions of masculinity. By focussing on hidden (or not intended to be public) communication between men in sports organizations, our analysis illustrates that demeaning behaviour is, on the part of some white men, a response to their fear of social change – prompting an examination of the fragility of hegemonic masculinity.
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- Hearn, Jeff, Senior Professor, 1947-
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Global, transnational, national and ‘local’ organizations and organizing : The case of space and place
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations. - London : Routledge. - 9781003193579 - 9781032045153 - 9781032045160 ; , s. 105-118
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Place and space are both material-grounded and socially constructed, and social relations are part of the production of space and place – with consequent implications for men, masculinities, organizations and organizing. Spatiality, along with geography, geopolitics and indeed temporality, is a growing focus in both critical studies on men and masculinities, and studies of organizations and organizing. This chapter considers organizations, organizing, men and masculinities, through a social-spatial lens: how men and masculinities in and around organizations and organizing are located within social spaces and places. More specifically, the primary focus is on how spaces and places figure in understanding the differential relations and mutual construction of men, masculinities, organizations and organizing, transnationally, that is, across localities and national contexts. Having said that, it is important from the outset to consider how the transnational, and indeed the global, also operate locally and with local specificities. The chapter begins by considering the macro-picture of global and transnational organizations and organizing, in terms of geographical, historical and contemporary changes, including growing organizational and spatial concentrations and inequalities. It continues with some implications of this transnational social-spatial lens on migration, nation and location, before concluding comments.
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- Hearn, Jeff, Senior Professor, 1947-, et al.
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Studying men, masculinities, organizations and organizing : Introducing the Handbook
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations. - London : Routledge. - 9781032045153 - 9781032045160 - 9781003193579 ; , s. 1-19
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This introductory chapter to the Handbook sets out some of the major contexts for the development and growth of focused studies on the relations of men, masculinities, organizations and organizing – a topic that is always topical. Earlier studies are briefly reviewed before considering the range of theoretical, disciplinary and methodological approaches that are relevant to this focus of study and research. The chapter continues with discussions of three key framings: critical studies of men and masculinities; debates on intersectionality/ies; and the ever-present importance of histories and power for understanding the relations of men, masculinities, organizations and organizing. The chapter concludes with an overview of the volume, including short summaries of all the other chapters of the Handbook, followed by final comments on the relevance of these issues for transforming academia, writing and publishing.
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- Mellström, Ulf, et al.
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Tracing the superheroes of our time : Contemporary and emergent masculinities in tech entrepreneurship
- 2023
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations. - : Routledge. - 9781003193579 - 9781032045153 - 9781032045160 ; , s. 417-429
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, we provide an overview of masculinity in relation to technology, entrepreneurship and organizations connected to technology entrepreneurship. In doing so, we address how masculinity as an underlying gendered configuration of technology entrepreneurship, and particularly Big Tech, has been and can be conceptualized in masculinity studies, and how this kind of masculinity has taken centre stage as a dominant form of masculinity in global business masculinities, social media representations and films. We combine the elements of entrepreneurial and technology masculinities in order to address their importance for organizational forms and ideals. We also incorporate intersectional perspectives as far as they are applicable to the literature we review. We hint at the larger socio-cultural implications of the technoentrepreneurial masculinities that we outline. We want to emphasize, in particular, that the figuration of a hegemonic geek masculinity that we propose here needs to be contextualized within a wider frame of other gendered and racial inequalities in the tech industry.
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- Muñoz-García, A.L., et al.
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Men, gender and knowledge construction in higher education
- 2023
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations. - London : Routledge. - 9781003193579 - 9781032045153 - 9781032045160 ; , s. 339-352
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Academia, higher education and knowledge production continue to be gendered and male-dominated, despite increasing enrolment of women, and the advancement of policies promoting gender equality in higher education across the world. The place and dynamics of men and masculinities in higher education are explored in more detail through a focus on Latin America, and specifically the discipline of education in Chile. In recent years, the Chilean higher education system has advanced in creating and implementing gender-equality policies in research to promote the participation of women in knowledge production. However, these policies have not addressed either the resistance or the complexities of what it means to advance a gender-equality policy agenda in highly feminized disciplinary fields such as education. Drawing from the discussion on hegemonic masculinities, we analyse the discourses of university scholars in the educational disciplinary area. In a qualitative study (2017-2020), we analysed the national policies on knowledge and gender during 2010s in Chile, including 62 semi-structured interviews with scientific policymakers, research directors and academics from the educational field. This chapter shows that the presence of a high number of women in the educational field has been considered a mirror of gender equality, inhibiting a reflexive process on masculinity and its privilege in historically feminized spaces. This chapter is an invitation to focus more on questions of institutionalized sexism in academia, which perpetuate historical practices of gender discrimination.
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- de Boise, Sam, 1985-
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Emotions and affect in organizing men and masculinity/ies
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations. - London : Routledge. - 9781003193579
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter explores the role of emotions and affect in terms of men’s organizing from a predominantly sociological focus, including some approaches from cultural studies and social psychology. It starts with an explanation of the differences between approaches to emotions and affect, as well as key differences within traditions. The chapter observes that while the literature on emotions has often looked at emotions as properties of individuals, which can be “worked on” approaches to affect have conceptualized embodied responses more in terms of how they circulate and structure relations between people. In relation to men and masculinity/ies, while there has been a tendency to view acceptable and unacceptable emotions within organizations as inherently gendered – including a focus on men’s unemotionality – there has been a move towards exploring how men express emotions within and in relation to organizations as part of a broader discourse around “softening” and “caring” masculinity. The chapter finally draws on the affective turn in feminist theory, to indicate how thinking about men’s organizational behaviour and organizing as structured through affective practice is a means to avoid the progressive/regressive binary associated with a focus on men’s emotional expression while still foregrounding emotional experience.
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- Mellström, Ulf, 1959-, et al.
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Tracing the superheroes of our time : Contemporary and emergent masculinities in tech entrepreneurship
- 2023
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations. - : Routledge. - 9781003193579 ; , s. 417-429
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter, we provide an overview of masculinity in relation to technology, entrepreneurship and organizations connected to technology entrepreneurship. In doing so, we address how masculinity as an underlying gendered configuration of technology entrepreneurship, and particularly Big Tech, has been and can be conceptualized in masculinity studies, and how this kind of masculinity has taken centre stage as a dominant form of masculinity in global business masculinities, social media representations and films. We combine the elements of entrepreneurial and technology masculinities in order to address their importance for organizational forms and ideals. We also incorporate intersectional perspectives as far as they are applicable to the literature we review. We hint at the larger socio-cultural implications of the technoentrepreneurial masculinities that we outline. We want to emphasize, in particular, that the figuration of a hegemonic geek masculinity that we propose here needs to be contextualized within a wider frame of other gendered and racial inequalities in the tech industry.
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