NORMA – Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies (Web), Special issue, Fall 2010, Theme editors: Ann-Dorte Christensen & Sune Qvotrup Jensen, Aalborg University
New possibilities for articulations and new forms of cultural expression have emerged in modern societies and some of these are taken up when men construct political identities. Men throughout the world develop radical political identities as a reaction to social changes, migration and globalization – some based on optimism towards these changes others grounded in pessimism. On the one hand globalization leads to the creation of economies and cultural forms that challenge national boundaries and on the other hand it leads to transnational and local forms of resistance, often in the collective shape of social and political movements, countercultures or institutionalized organizations.
Gender and masculinities play a crucial role in the creation of political identities, as well as in the performative forms of expression practiced by such collective organizations. In other words masculinity can be a site of resistance, but the question is resistance to what and in which form?
The aim of this special issue is Continue reading