Masculinity beyond the Metropolis

by Kenway, Jane; Hickey-Moody, Anna

• ISBN13: 9781403939326
• ISBN10: 1403939322
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The research in this book focuses on masculinity as a socially-constructed gender, and the impact of place or space on identity--and how the characteristics of these places have impacted on their relationships, activities, and identities.

Author Biography

Anna Hickey-Moody is a research fellow in the School of Education at Monash University, Australia. Jane Kenway holds a Chair in Global Education Studies in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
Places beyond the metropolis	5	(2)
Thumbnail sketches	7	(4)
1 Globalization, Place and Masculinities	11	(24)
Globalization: angles of vision	12	(8)
Placing and displacing identities	20	(7)
A global sense of masculinity	27	(8)
2 Place-Based Global Ethnography	35	(25)
Changing times, changing ethnographies	38	(13)
Ethnography and masculinity studies	51	(5)
Our approach	56	(4)
3 Reordering Work	60	(31)
Changing work, changing workers	62	(3)
Melancholic masculinities and intergenerational angst	65	(8)
Making and marketing frontier masculinities	73	(5)
Fruit, wine and masculine ambivalence	78	(7)
Entrepreneurial masculinities	85	(6)
4 In and Out of Place	91	(26)
Globalizing places	92	(2)
Live and dead zones	94	(6)
Spatial fictions and frictions	100	(6)
Scapes of consumption	106	(6)
The corporate reconfiguration of place	112	(5)
5 Scapes of Abjection	117	(29)
Noxious mobility and immobility	119	(2)
Animating animosity	121	(11)
Abjectifying Aboriginality	132	(4)
The tourist glaze	136	(10)
6 Everyday Knowledges	146	(25)
Ways of knowing the everyday	148	(4)
Leveraging life chances	152	(9)
Lifestyle logics	161	(10)
7 Wild and Tame Pleasures	171	(28)
Pleasure, order and global flows	173	(1)
Sacrosanct masculinities and embedded and endorsed leisure/pleasures	174	(13)
Subversive masculinities and embedded unendorsed leisure/pleasures	187	(5)
Scorned masculinities and disembedded and unendorsed leisure/pleasures	192	(7)
Notes	199	(3)
Bibliography	202	(18)
Index	220