Analysing Hegemonic Masculinities in the Anti-Globalization Movement(s)

Abstract

In a commentary on Coleman and Bassi's study of hegemonic masculinities in the British anti-globalization movement, the author brings to bear the scholarship on the gendered culture of the World Social Forum and through this, suggests the importance of contextualizing such studies in particular places and incorporating race, nation and class as salient dimensions.

Keywords:

• activism
• anti-globalization
• masculinity
• place
• World Social Forum

Notes

The World Social Forum was initiated in 2001 as a gathering of movements and groups of civil society from around the world who were opposed to neoliberal globalization but otherwise stunningly diverse. The World Social Forum is now a regular event taking place in different locales in the global South and has spawned autonomous local and regional processes.

See, for example, Freudenschuss (2007), Roskos and Willis (2007) and numerous other contributions to the special issue of the Journal of International Women's Studies 8 (3), April 2007.

See Connell and Messerschmidt (2005) for review of the history and reformulation of the concept of hegemonic masculinity.