Men, masculinities and young people: north–south dialogues

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Funding

This article results from a 3-year collaborative transnational research project ‘Engaging South African and Finnish youth towards new traditions of non-violence, equality and social well-being’, funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, and the Academy of Finland.

Notes on contributors

Jeff Hearn

Jeff Hearn is Professor of Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Guest Research Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, based in the Centre for Feminist Social Studies, Örebro University, Sweden; and Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK: His latest book is Men of the World: Genders, Globalization, Transnational Times, Sage, 2015.

Kopano Ratele

Kopano Ratele is Professor in the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa (Unisa) and Researcher at the South African Medical Research Council-Unisa's Violence, Injury & Peace Research Unit. He is past president of the Psychological Society of South Africa and chairperson of the board of Sonke Gender Justice. He writes on masculinity in relation to violence, tradition, culture, race and sexuality.

Tamara Shefer

Tamara Shefer is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Deputy Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Western Cape. Her scholarship is mostly in the areas of youth, gender and sexualities, including a focus on HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, masculinities, memory and post-apartheid, gender and care, and social justice in higher education.