ABSTRACT
How are men, masculinities and gender power implicated within global institutions? How are global institutions to be understood in terms of men, masculinities and gender power? What are men up to in such arenas as: global finance, corporate law, military intelligence, world sporting bodies and nationalist politics?
Unsustainable Institutions of Men examines men’s dealings in transnational processes across the economy, politics, technologies and bodies. In exploring the men’s domination of institutions in national and transnational realms this volume underpins a novel approach built around multiple "dispersed centres" of men’s power. Indeed, in critical discussions of men and masculinities there has been a gradual shift in focus from the local, so-called ‘ethnographic moment’, to a broader view encompassing several dynamics (e.g. global, transnational, international, postcolonial and the global north-south). Building on this conceptual move, Unsustainable Institutions of Men focuses on pinpointing masculine actions and influences that support and enact transnational processes, disclosing those connections and examining institutional alternatives which could contribute to more inclusive and democratic transnational dialogues.
Comprised of a range of international contributions, Unsustainable Institutions of Men will appeal to students, researchers, experts and activists seeking to understand the deep structural conditions of contemporary globalized threats, created by old and new patterns of gender power and transnational patriarchies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |22 pages
Introduction: unsustainable institutions of men
part I|2 pages
Economy
chapter 1|16 pages
Interrogating transnational masculinities, fatherhood and the institutions of men
chapter 2|14 pages
The innovation ecosystem
chapter 4|16 pages
Hegemony self-critique
part II|2 pages
Politics
chapter 5|15 pages
The ends of imagination
chapter 6|15 pages
Intentional impossibility
part III|2 pages
Technologies
chapter 8|16 pages
Men, automobility, movements, and the environment
chapter 9|17 pages
‘The performing rights of man’
chapter 11|15 pages
Gender trouble in cyberwar
part IV|2 pages
Bodies