ABSTRACT

This chapter highlights the conceptual articulations between masculinities and spatiality, illustrating how these interlinkages constitute a productive site for deepening our understandings of masculinities as plural and situated. Towards this end, this review covers two broad arenas of scholarly research, viz., geographical literature focusing on masculinity, and literature within critical masculinity studies centred on specific geopolitical regions. In understanding the construction of masculine gendered identities, both these arenas engage with the question of spatiality in a unique manner, providing diverse insights into the locations, spaces and scales which structure masculinities.