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• MEDICINE MAN. Reconfigurations of masculinity in times of increased medicalization
  NORMA12 January 2025By Karen Hvidtfeldt Michael Nebeling Petersen Signe Rom Rasmussen a University of Southern Denmark, Denmarkb University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Male celebrities, masculinities and the promotion of mental health literacy: comparing the Anglophone and Sinophone pop culture landscape
  NORMA24 December 2024By Garth Stahl Yang Zhao a School of Education, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australiab Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, EnglandDr. Garth Stahl's research interests focus on the relationship between education and society, socio-cultural studies of education, student identities, equity/inequality, and social change. Currently, his research projects and publications encompass theoretical and empirical studies of youth, sociology of schooling in a neoliberal age, gendered subjectivities, equity and difference as well as educational reform.Dr. Yang Zhao is a research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He specialises in the anthropology of gender, masculinity and health and has been conducting ethnographic research in Central Asia since 2015 and in Ethiopia since 2024. His anthropological approach delves into gender dynamics and social inequalities, with an emphasis on engaging men and boys alongside women, to promote health and well-being in a global context.
• What men have to say about epigenetics, fertility, and masculinity
  NORMA28 November 2024By Matthew Kearney School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UKMatthew Kearney is the author of The Social Order of Collective Action: The Wisconsin Uprising of 2011 (Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield) about the massive protest that inspired the Occupy Movement. His articles have appeared in Social Forces and Theory and Society, among other journals, and his work has been translated into German and Chinese. In his spare time, he produces and co-hosts Extinction Rebellion Radio, distributed as a podcast and nationally syndicated broadcast. He has taught at Harvard University, Emerson College, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (where he received his PhD), and is now a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Liverpool.
• Antifeminist, manosphere and right-wing extremist sentiment among men who use domestic and family violence: masculinism, misinformation, and the justificatory logics of violence
  NORMA21 November 2024By Lucy Nicholas Sal Clark Christine Agius Kay Cook a School of Social Science, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australiab School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, AustraliaLucy Nicholas is an Associate Professor in Gender and Sexuality / Sociology at Western Sydney University. Their research is interested in diversity broadly, focusing on genders and sexualities, social theory, feminisms, masculinities and whiteness. They have authored and co-authored two books with Palgrave, one on queer and gender theory (Queer Post-Gender Ethics) and one on The Persistence of Global Masculinism, as well as many chapters, reports and journal articles. They are dedicated to ethical empirical research and furthering social theories to understand and challenge subordination of all kinds, and work towards a more co-operative and enabling world.Sal Clark is a lecturer in Politics & Sociology at Swinburne University of Technology. They come from an interdisciplinary background incorporating political theory with sociological methods and has experience conducting qualitative research with marginalised groups. Clark’s research interests broadly encompass forced migration, human rights, bordering practices and the intersection of gender and sexuality and the politics of displacement and exceptionality.Christine Agius is an Associate Professor of International Relations and Politics at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests broadly embrace post-structuralist, feminist and ontological security, foreign and security policy, and bordering practices, which have been applied to cases such as Sweden, Swedish-Russian relations, Australian and US foreign policy, drone warfare, immigration and populist far-right and anti-feminist politics. She is the author of The Social Construction of Swedish Neutrality(Manchester University Press, 2006), co-editor of The Politics of Identity (Manchester University Press, 2018), and co-author of The Persistence of Global Masculinism (Palgrave, 2018).Kay Cook is a Professor and the Associate Dean of Research in the School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education at Swinburne University of Technology. Her research explores how new and developing social policies such as welfare-to-work, child support and child care policies, transform relationships between individuals, families and the state. Her work seeks to make the personal impact of these policies explicit in order to provide tangible evidence to policy makers to affect more humanistic reform.
• Fathers and sons in Marcos Zimmermann’s Desnudos sudamericanos
  NORMA05 November 2024By Jonathan A. Allan English, Drama, and Creative Writing Gender and Women's Studies, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, CanadaJonathan A. Allan is Canada Research Chair in Men and Masculinities and Professor in the Department of English, Drama, and Creative Writing and the Gender and Women's Studies Program at Brandon University. He is the author of Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin (University of Regina Press 2024).
• Femonationalism in the civic-integration work conducted by a Swedish NGO with men’s groups
  NORMA15 October 2024By Joakim Johansson Jamshid Dashti a Department of Economics and Political Science, Mälardalen University, Västerås and Eskilstuna, Swedenb Probation Service, Stockholm, SwedenJoakim Johansson is an associate professor and senior lecturer in political science at Mälardalen University. He has conducted a number of studies on various aspects of men and masculinity in contexts of Swedish politics. He has also studied attitudes on diversity, discrimination, ethnic relations and integration. His recent research output includes ‘Securitisation of the Swedish migration policy and the situation for unaccompanied children’ (co-authored with Mehrdad Darvishpour and Niclas Månsson), published by Routledge in the interdisciplinary research anthology Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe (Zamorano, Stier & Gray 2024).Jamshid Dashti is a political scientist currently working as a probation inspector within The Swedish Prison and Probation Service. Dashti grew up in Afghanistan and went to Sweden as a refugee. He wrote his candidate thesis on migrant groups activities in Sweden.
• Ethics in critical studies of men and masculinities: an absent presence?
  NORMA08 October 2024By Klara Goedecke Karlstad University, Sweden
• Insuring masculinity: negotiating reproductive vulnerability and control through sperm storage
  NORMA03 October 2024By Stine Willum Adrian Charlotte Kroløkke a Department of Social Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norwayb Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, DenmarkStine Willum Adrian is a Professor in Sociology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. She holds a PhD in feminist STS and she has a background in medical sociology. Adrian’s work is interdisciplinary joining ethnography of gender, medical technologies, feminist theories, ethics and law. She has conducted a number of large ethnographic studies focused on sperm banking and assisted reproduction and is engaged in the biopolitics of reproductive technologies of life and death. Adrian is published in journals such as: the European Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies, BioSocieties, Science as Culture and Australian Feminist Studies.Charlotte Kroløkke is a Professor in Cultural Studies in the Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. She has been the principal investigator of several large collective research projects and positions her own work as the doing of feminist cultural science studies. Kroløkke’s research interests deal with reproductive politics, technological developments and notably, the hoorays that accompany them, human-nonhuman forms of kinship, and multispecies ethnography. Kroløkke has recently published in i.e. European Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies, New Genetics and Society, Science as Culture, Culture, Health and Sexuality.
• From liberation to rights: the organized men’s movement in Norway, 1978–1980
  NORMA20 September 2024By Simon Gramvik Master of History, University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwaySimon Gramvik holds a master's degree in history and a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary gender studies from the University of Oslo. His research focuses on social history and gender politics. Simon currently works as a freelance writer, continuing his independent research on these topics.
• ‘As a father, I like to develop and grow’ – fathering and privileges among white, heterosexual & highly educated men in the Netherlands
  NORMA21 August 2024By Carole Ammann Paula Vermuë Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development, ETH Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandDr. Carole Ammann, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher with an interdisciplinary background in social anthropology and African studies. Her specialisation is in the anthropology of gender with a specific focus on femininities, masculinities, and intersectionality. She has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Europe and West Africa. In her current project, she researches LGBTIQ+ parenting in Switzerland.Paula Vermuë is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where she is conducting research on changing family dynamics in East Africa, with a specific focus on fatherhood in Uganda. Previously, Paula worked as a junior lecturer and research assistant in the anthropology department at the University of Amsterdam and as a researcher at the Department of Primary and Community Care of Radboudumc.
• Intersectionality and masculinities studies, go together like a horse and carriage
  NORMA12 July 2024By Katarzyna Wojnicka University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Nuancing Young Masculinities: Helsinki Boys’ Intersectional Relationships in New Times
  NORMA09 June 2024By Inka Tähkä University of Helsinki
• Aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction
  NORMA09 June 2024By Pierre-Antoine Pellerin University of Lyon, Lyon, France
• Chinese men’s practices of intimacy, embodiment and kinship: crafting elastic masculinity
  NORMA07 June 2024By Siming Yu Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Rural masculinity in protest: farmer’s political movements in modern Poland as sites of rural masculinities’ reproduction
  NORMA23 May 2024By Marta GospodarczykDoctoral School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, PolandMarta Gospodarczyk is a PhD candidate at the University of Warsaw, Poland (Doctoral School of Social Sciences/Faculty of Sociology). Her research interests lie in the nexus of rurality and gender, especially rural masculinities. Her doctoral project attempts to investigate the consequences of drought on farming households, with a specific focus on changes in gendered labour patterns.
• Enculturating men, cultivating masculinity
  NORMA16 April 2024By Sam de BoiseÖrebro University, Sweden
• Emotional stoicism and affective masculinities in Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding
  NORMA11 March 2024By Nathanial B. SmithDepartment of English Language and Literature, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, USANathanial B. Smith is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University, where he teaches introductory and advanced courses in literary analysis and writing, including a course on sports literature. His research focuses on gender, medicine, affect, and the reception of ancient philosophy in medieval and early modern English poetry and drama.
• ‘Becoming manly’: white South African defence force veterans negotiating masculinity
  NORMA22 February 2024By Raksha JanakDeevia BhanaJames MarculitisImraan Buccusa Department of Educational Psychology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africab School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africac Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, USAd School for International Training, SIT Graduate Institute, Durban, South AfricaRaksha Janak, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her research interests include gender, sexualities, sexual violence, new feminist materialism, social media and teachers' work. Her most recent publications include “No! We definitely don't teach that sort of thing”: Teachers and the childhood-sexuality assemblage in South Africa (2024) and Girls becoming ‘sexy' on digital spaces: capacities and constraints (2023).Deevia Bhana, PhD, is the South African Research Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her research examines how gender and sexuality come to matter in the young life course. Her recent book is entitled, Girls and the Negotiation of Porn in South Africa: Power, Play and Sexuality (2023, Routledge).James Marculitis is a student of Diplomacy and World Affairs studying at Occidental College. His research interests include comparative politics, gender studies and whiteness.Imraan Buccus, PhD, is attached to a study abroad programme, the School for International Training and is post-doctoral fellow in Gender Justice, Health and Human Development at the Durban University of Technology.
• We are family: Taiwanese gay fathers’ strategic normalisation decision-making in transnational reproduction
  NORMA02 February 2024By Jung ChenDepartment of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UKJung Chen is a PhD candidate at the Department of sociology, University of Cambridge. Her research interests are medical sociology, sociology of reproduction, sociology of family, andLGBTQ + studies. She is under the supervision of Prof. Sarah Franklin and Dr Marcin Smietana and her PhD project looks at queer reproductive justice and queer relatedness in Taiwan with a specific focus on gay men who pursued fatherhood via transnational assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and surrogacy.

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