Sponsored by the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group
Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers
Annual Conference, London, August 28 – 31, 2007
Masculinity, intersectionality and place: dominant discourses and practices
Organisers: Peter Hopkins (Lancaster University, UK) and Greg Noble
(University of Western Sydney, Australia)
The geographies of masculinities have recently reached a critical mass in
the discipline (Longhurst, 2000, Berg and Longhurst, 2003, McDowell, 2003,
van Hoven and Horschelmann, 2005) with work in this area exploring a wide
range of concerns about men’s everyday practices, masculine identities and
gendered performances. By taking stock of such work, this session aims to
advance the geographies of masculinities by bringing the sub-field into
conversation with a series of current debates in the social sciences and
humanities around the theorization of identities, the significance of
emotions and the place(s) of the cultural.
We welcome papers from researchers (including postgraduate students and
experienced researchers) working in any sub-field of human geography, and
in particular those working in social and cultural geographies and in the
links between geography and cultural studies.
Papers could focus on some of the following themes:
- Discussions and debates about the nature of 'hegemonic masculinity' and
its geographical variability
- The ways on which masculine identities intersect and interact with other
forms of identification including – but not limited to – race, class,
religion, disability, sexuality, nationality, body size etc
- Multiculturalism, cultural diversity and masculinities
- Masculinity and issues of respect and respectability
- The politics of recognition around masculinities
- Masculinities and geographies of intolerance
- Emotional geographies of masculinities
- Childhood and youth geographies and masculine identities
Please email abstracts (max 200 words) to [log in to unmask] by
31st January 2007.
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