Masculinity and Syrian Fiction

Berg, Lovisa

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“…While there is some evidence of subtle shifts in gender roles as captured by popular media, conservative and traditional tropes of masculinity remain present and often fore fronted in Syria (Berg, 2021;Chancellor, 2020;Joubin, 2020). These traditional and conservative expectations of gender performances also push women out of the public sphere with findings that there are only limited ways in which women's public participation is sanctioned (Totah, 2013) which places a strong emphasis on men to act as economic and political agents in Syrian cultural life.…”

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Be a man: A theory of climate change, masculinities and violence

Francis

2024

Environment and Security

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Experts increasingly agree that the impacts of climate change are likely to create new violent conflict risks and exacerbate existing ones. However, the extent of this link and the specific causal pathways are much less clear, and the role of gender in this process is under-examined. This paper theorizes that gendered norms, especially the expectations of how men perform their masculinities, are an intervening variable that might explain some of this relationship. In doing so, it engages with the emerging debate around the extent to which climate change influences the evolution of violent conflict, theorizing with an illustrative observation of the events of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Syria. I find that there are plausible explanations for climate–conflict links involving gendered expectations of men’s behaviour serving as an intervening variable between climate change and violent conflict and discuss the implications of this for moving away from securitized approaches, future study and peacebuilding work.

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Section: Gender Relationsmentioning

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Be a man: A theory of climate change, masculinities and violence

Francis

2024

Environment and Security

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Masculinity and Syrian Fiction

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Be a man: A theory of climate change, masculinities and violence

Be a man: A theory of climate change, masculinities and violence

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