Placing Masculinities and Geography

‘You're Not a Man at All!’: Masculinity, Responsibility, and Staying on the Land in Contemporary Ireland

“…This work is situated in the context of a growing body of literature on masculine identities, and in particular the emerging research on geographies of masculinity (Berg and Longhurst, 2003) and rural masculinities (Brandth, 2002;Little, 2002). Research by geographers, sociologists and others, from feminist or post-feminist perspectives, has emphasised the need to explore the ways in which masculinity is constructed, in order to understand how masculinism is created and reinforced.…”

“…A wealth of research has explored the reproduction, negotiation and representation of masculine identities in a wide range of contexts (see for example, collections by Cornwall andLindisfarne, 1994, Pease andPringle, 2001). It has become clear that hegemonic and subordinate masculinities are highly contingent, both spatially and temporally, reflecting different sets of practices, performances and values in different gendered contexts (Berg and Longhurst, 2003).…”

“I never felt targeted as an Asian … until I went to a gay pub”: Sexual racism and the aesthetic geographies of the bad encounter

“…Discussions of sexual racism in Sydney are necessarily bound up with political and economic shifts in Australia's relationship to ''Asia'' (Ang, 2016) and racializing orderings through which white settler Australia experienced itself in opposition to their proximate neighbors (Hage, 1998). For queer Asian men in Sydney, these dynamics intersect with a partial and uneven valorization of otherwise marginalized queer identities (Nicoll, 2002) and the continuing power of normative masculinities to shape identities and organize encounters across difference (Berg and Longhurst, 2003;Gorman-Murray and Hopkins, 2014;Hopkins and Noble, 2009). This is important not just because sexual racism is itself pernicious and an obstacle to belonging and participation-although it is-but also because these coordinates have broader effects that shape intersecting processes of racialization, migrant settlement, and urban life.…”

Reconstructing Violent Rural Masculinities: Responding to Fractures in the Rural Gender Order in Australia

“…In recent years, geographers have started to explore the relationship between space and gender (Berg & Longhurst, 2003;Little, 2002;Longhurst, 2000;Horschelmann & van Hoven, 2004). The premise of the research agenda into rural masculinities is that spatial structures impact on gendered subjectivities.…”