Call for Papers
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
San Francisco, April 17-21, 2007
Geographies of Masculinity
In 1991, geographer Peter Jackson wrote that "it has been easier
for...men to voice our support of feminist imperatives rather than to
work through the contradictions of our own experiences as men." To a
large extent, this still holds true today, fifteen years later.
Although some work has been done on geographies of masculinity and
boys/men, it has been sporadic at best and often borders dangerously
on naturalizing men's experiences into preconceived notions of
masculine power, dominance, and control. However, this betrays the
broad and (as Jackson and other scholars such as Connell, Nelson, and
Kimmel have noted) the sometimes "contradictory" experiences of men
and masculinity. Although it would be hard for one to argue that
masculinity is not privileged even still, the everyday experiences of
men and masculinity often rarely fit so neatly into this power
dynamic, especially when masculinity intersects race, sexuality,
class, ethnicity, and space.
This session seeks to address this problem by exploring these gray
(and often unexplored) spaces of masculinity. Far from taking
masculinity as an abstract and taken-for-granted construction, it
seeks to problematize and materialize it to a point that a real
discussion of geographies of masculinity can take place, one that
produces more useful theoretical and empirical frameworks to examine
the spaces and experiences of boys, men, and masculinity.
Papers could be given on the following topics, but should by no means
be limited to them:
Sites of alternative masculinities
Critical masculinities
Postfeminist masculinities
Queer masculinities
Female masculinities
Transgendered masculinities
Men and space
Class and masculinity
Ethnicity and masculinity
Radical masculinities
Masculinities across borders
Globalization and masculinity
Masculinist ontologies/epistemologies
Masculinity and nature
Titles, abstracts (250 words or less), and questions should be
addressed to Scott Whitlock ([log in to unmask]) by Oct. 15,
2006.
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W. Scott Whitlock
Department of Geography and Regional Development
University of Arizona
http://monsoon.geog.arizona.edu/~whitlock
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