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Position Paper

Men, Masculinities and the Conundrum of ‘Gex’: An Interview with Jeff Hearn by Helle RydstromFootnote

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Pages 141-159 | Published online: 31 Aug 2017
 

Notes

This is an extended text from an interview conducted with Jeff Hearn in connection with his inauguration as Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University in May 2016.

1. “Feminist Theorizings of Intersectionality: Transversal Dialogues and New Synergies”, with Nina Lykke, Director (Linköping University), and Liisa Husu, Principal Investigators (Örebro University), funded by Vetenskapsrådet [Swedish Research Council], 2012–2017.

4. “Social and Economic Sustainability of Future Working Life: Policies, (In)Equalities and Intersectionalities in Finland”, funded by the Academy of Finland Strategic Research, with Marjut Jyrkinen, Director, and Jukka Lehtonen (both Helsinki University), Anna-Maija Lämsä (Jyväskylä University), and Charlotta Niemistö (Hanken School of Economics).

6. See, for example, Hanmer (Citation1990, p. 39 ), citing 56 feminist publications “providing the ideas, the changed consciousness of women’s lives and their relationship to men—all available by 1975.”

7. See O’Brien (Citation1981, 1990); Delphy (Citation1977, 1984); MacKinnon (Citation1982, 1983).

8. For details see: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs239/en/

9. CROME was an umbrella for the EU FP5 Thematic Network, The European Research Network on Men in Europe, “The Social Problem of Men: the Social Problem and Societal Problematization of Men and Masculinities”, that was funded 2000–2003, coordinated by Keith Pringle (Sunderland University), with Ursula Müller (Bielefeld University), Elżbieta Oleksy (Łódź University), and myself (Hanken School of Economics) as Principal Investigators.

10. See, for example, Jackson (Citation2016).

11. Hearn (Citation2012b).

12. JH: In this and many other arenas, I see the need to develop analyses that are both more materialist and more discursive (Hearn, Citation2012c); this is certainly so in working on violence, where discourse can be part of and lead to life and death.

13. For example, Hearn (Citation2011a, 2012a, 2012b, 2013, 2015).

14. For example, Burr (Citation2015); and, in Turkey, Akşit and Varişli (Citation2014, 2015, 2016).

15. See Hearn (Citation1996) for an early critique of some interpretations of masculinity/ies.

16. For example, Hearn (Citation2004, 2012a, 2015); see also Wittig (Citation1992).

20. See Hearn (Citation2014).

21. Carrigan et al. (Citation1985); Connell (Citation1983, 1995).

22. See, for example, Hearn (Citation1998, 2012a); Johnson (Citation1987); Lykke (Citation2010b).

23. JH: Another example here is how what is now called intersectionality suffused Second Wave feminism, at least in the circles I moved in. It is quite easy to relate masculinities theory directly to what is now called intersectionality. See, for example, Christensen and Larsen (Citation2008); Christensen and Jensen (Citation2014); Hearn (Citation2011b).

24. See, the recent issue of Sociology (Bhambra & de Santos, Citation2017).

25. After the interview was conducted, the “Critical Explorations of Crisis” initiative was granted funding from the Swedish Sandblom fund to organize a symposium and more recently selected to become an Advanced Study Group at the Pufendorf Institute. Besides Helle Rydstrom and Jeff Hearn, the core group consists of Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Mo Hamza, Vasna Ramazar, and Annika Bergman Rosamond. This group refers to a larger national and international network of scholars.

26. HR: Crisis is a perspective which is broad in scope. Conceptually, socio-politically, and phenomenologically, we study crisis as referring to wars, conflicts, catastrophes, violences, migration, and global health as shaped in regard to genders, masculinities, races/ethnicities, sexualities, ages, bodyableness, and classes, globally and in particular contexts.

27. Project title: “Climate Disasters and Gendered Violence in Asia: A Study on the Vulnerability and (In)Security of Women and Girls in the Aftermath of Recent Catastrophes in Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam” (funded by Vetenskapsrådet); Helle Rydstrom is coordinating the project in which Catarina Kinnvall and Huong Nguyen (both at Lund University) also participate.

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