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CFP 2013
Political Masculinities: Structures, Discourses and Spaces in Historical Perspective
The field of masculinity studies has found its way into many academic disciplines. The social sciences as well as medical and psychological research have investigated many phenomena around the issue of masculinity. Moreover, there is a consensus that masculinity as the unmarked gender has remained invisible in many contexts. This, it has been argued, is particularly true for the sphere of politics. Thus, it is not surprising that there is an increasing body of research in the social sciences, especially in political science, exploring the interdependence of the construction of masculinities on the one hand and the emerging, maintenance, and modification of concepts such as state and citizenship, nationality, democracy, militarism, policing, and colonialism on the other. As a result, masculinity as structuring politics and political institutions is being made visible. Likewise, political masculinities need to be deconstructed in order to identify and focus on the processes of “engendering” political spaces, institutions and norms. In addition, analysis of the mechanisms and functions of different types of masculinities in variable political and historical contexts, drawing attention to the transformation of masculinist structures and spaces, is required. Finally, for the purposes of this conference, the concept of political masculinity has been widened to include and concentrate on structures of domination at the intersection of gender, sexuality and ethnicity.

 

Programme 2013
KEYNOTES:

  • Michael Kimmel (SUNY)

ANGRY WHITE MEN: The Mobilization of Masculinity on the Extreme Right in Europe and the United States

 

  • James Messerschmidt (University of Southern Maine)

Global Hegemonic and Dominating Masculinities: Lessons from George W. Bush and Barack Obama 

 

  • Ulrike Brunotte (University of Maastricht)

Masculinities between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. 

European identity politics and (post)colonial Discourse, past and present


Masculinities, Citizenship, Civil Society and Democracy

  • Doron Avraham (Ramat Gan): The Violent and Masculine Nature of Civil Society: The Case of Nineteenth-Century German Liberalism 
  • Cenk Özbay (Istanbul): Insurgent Masculinity in Istanbul Riots 
  • Philippe Greif (München): Between Marginalization and Rebellion.
  • Youth Riots, Violence and Masculinity in France 


Masculinities and Intersections

  • Paul Scheibelhofer (Wien): Muscular Islamophobia in Austria and beyond: Masculinism and contemporary anti-Muslim politics
  • Iris van Huis, Marleen van der Haar (Nijmegen): Marginalized Men’s Intersectionalities: Studying the Construction of (In)equalities and Citizenship in Male Emancipation Projects in the Netherlands 


Masculinities in the Political Field

  • Wieland Schwanebeck (Dresden): “Three Communists Walk into a Bar”: Negotiating Masculinities in Political Jokes 
  • Valerio Coladonato (Rome): Marco Bellocchio’s “Vincere” (2009) and the Media Coverage of Berlusconi’s Sex Scandals: Masculinity and Power Abuse in Contemporary Italian Politics 
  • Milica Antic Gaber/Irena Selisnik (Ljubljana): Transformations of Political Masculinities n Slovenia 
  • Patricia Lee Sykes (Washington): Political Masculinities in Space and Time: How the Gendered Nature of Anglo Institutions, Ideology, and Development Affects Female Executives 


Neoliberal Masculinities

  • Saskia Stachowitsch (Wien): Neoliberal Security Regimes and the Reconstruction of International Politics as a Masculine Space
  • Stefanie Wöhl (Wien): Gender in International Political Economy: A State-theoretical Approach to Varieties of Capitalism in Crisis 


Masculinities and Politics – Literary Representations

  • Marion Löffler (Wien): Traces of Democratic Politics in Joseph Roth’s Novel “The Spider’s Web” 
  • Carolin Schmitt (Frankfurt): “What kind of man are you?” – Representations of manhood, law and order in John Ford’s “The man who shot Liberty Valance” 
  • Wolfgang Funk (Hannover): Bush and Blair on Stage – Performances of Male Politicians in 21st-century British Theater 


Masculinities, Military and War

  • Anders Ahlbäck (Turku): Begone all Prussianism! Army loathing, democratization and male citizenship in the Nordic countries, ca 1890-1940 
  • Dorit Geva (Budapest): Silenced, Embodied, and Dependent: The Citizen Soldier and Men’s Citizenship in Third Republic France 
  • Ruth Streicher (Berlin): Counterinsurgency as a Gentlemanly Form of Warfare 
  • Berfin Emre Cetin (Ankara): Paramilitary Masculinities in Turkey: A Cultural Perspective