Researching men: the politics and possibilities of a qualitative mixed-methods approach

McClymont, Katie; Meth, Paula

doi:10.1080/14649360903305775

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“…Meth and McClymont (2009) have pointed out that masculinities do not only vary temporally, they vary spatially as well. Nevertheless, scholars have argued that the role of place is often overlooked (Atherton 2009, 822;Hopkins and Noble 2009, 812).…”

Section: Why Men and Traumatic Masculinities?mentioning

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Traumatic masculinities: the gendered geographies of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia

Kabachnik

Grabowska

Regulska

et al. 2013

Gender, Place & Culture

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Over 200,000 people became internally displaced after several violent conflicts in the early 1990s in Georgia. For many internally displaced persons (IDPs), gender relations have been transformed significantly. This translates to many women taking on the role of breadwinner for their family, which often is accompanied by the process of demasculinization for men. In this article, we examine the construction of masculinities and analyze the gendered processes of displacement and living in post-displacement for Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia. We identify the formation of 'traumatic masculinities' as a result of the threats to, though not usurpation of, hegemonic masculinities. Drawing on interviews, we highlight how IDPs conceptualize gender norms and masculinities in Georgia. Despite the disruptions that displacement has brought about, with the subsequent challenges to IDPs' ideal masculine roles, the discourses of hegemonic masculinities still predominate amongst IDPs. We further illustrate this point by identifying two separate gendered discourses of legitimization that attempt to reconcile hegemonic masculinities with the current contexts and circumstances that IDPs face. These new traumatic masculinities do coexist with hegemonic masculinities, although the latter are reformed and redefined as a result of the new contexts and new places within which they are performed.

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Section: Why Men and Traumatic Masculinities?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Traumatic masculinities: the gendered geographies of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia

Kabachnik

Grabowska

Regulska

et al. 2013

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…This is true of contemporary theorizing about men, masculinities and male identities in social geography more generally, when compared to the more numerous studies that focus on women, femininities and female identities (Hopkins and Noble 2009). Nonetheless a growing body of literature indicates that masculinities are multiply produced because they are simultaneously intersected by a range of subject positions (Hopkins 2006) and are spatially and temporally contingent (Meth and McClymont 2009). …”

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Grandfathering as spatio-temporal practice: conceptualizing performances of ageing masculinities in contemporary familial carescapes

Tarrant

2013

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper examines the spatio-temporalities of the intergenerational caring practices that contemporary grandfathers engage in with their grandchildren, in order to critique old men's constructions and performances of ageing masculinities, and the gendering and ageing of contemporary carescapes. Findings are based on 31 qualitative interviews and two participant observations, conducted in the NorthWest of England with men who are grandfathers. The concept of carescapes (Bowlby, Gregory and McKie 1997) is employed to explain that grandfathering is both spatially and temporally organized. Findings suggest that men construct distinctly masculine spaces of care later in life, contingent on both their resistance to spatially embedded ageism and their comparisons of grandfathering to previous lifecourse subjectivities, such as fathering. Complexity and diversity in how men negotiate these factors is also apparent and is explored. There is evidence for example that some men's performances of ageing masculinities contribute to the maintenance of a gendered division of labour in family care work, while others perform alternative masculinities that offer potential to transform gendered carespaces. This is further mediated by intergenerational interactions with children and grandchildren. Focus on old men who are grandfathers necessarily complicates geographical perspectives on the spatio-temporalities of multiple masculinities, ageing and informal familial care.Key words: Grandfathering; family; carescapes; masculinities; age; identity IntroductionAs a result of existing material, institutional and discursive framings, alongside a privileging of focus on gender over other dimensions of identity, care has come to be understood as Grandfather identities; neglected intersections of masculinities and 'old age'A small yet noteworthy body of sociological work is now attending to the apparent neglect of old men and ageing masculinities and it is this theoretical base that geographers could usefully exploit for developing and re-thinking the geographies of care as gendered, intergenerational and spatio-temporally organized, and masculinities as multiply produced, . These assumptions are problematic however as they are premised on essential understandings of both old age and hegemonic masculinity. Nonetheless this is theoretically interesting because the paradoxical and contradictory nature of these normative values suggests that ageing presents significant challenges to men as they get older and as they face the potential for gendered disempowerment resulting from the material processes of ageing. Geographies of ageing masculinitiesTo some extent the theoretical assumption that old age acts to de-gender old men has been replicated by social geographers, who rarely focus explicitly on old men and ageing masculinities. However limited research does suggest that old men's locations in age and gendered relations are of interest to geographers (Tarrant 2010). At one extreme, old men have been found to avoid public life altogether an...

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“…These examined men and women's experiences of informal housing, violence, parenting and then their experiences of the shift to formal housing. In combination, these projects employing a mixed qualitative methods approach including life history interviews, focus groups, solicited diaries, photography and drawing (see Meth & McClymont, 2009) which explored the views of residents, community leaders and the police to understand everyday lived experiences of housing change. The 2015 work, however, which forms the basis for this paper, focused exclusively on men who had benefitted from housing gain and used solicited diaries (see Meth, 2003) with 10 men to ascertain their specific experiences of this process.…”

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Men’s experiences of state sponsored housing in South Africa: emerging issues and key questions

Meth

Charlton

2016

Housing Studies

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In South African cities, millions of men and women living informally are being rehoused through the state-directed provision of formal houses to poor beneficiaries. This intervention is reshaping their lives, and innovatively targets beneficiaries with dependents, where over half are women. Aiming to redress the historical context of gendered inequality in housing ownership and house the very poor, these policy and implementation changes necessarily impact on men in terms of their power, resources and employment but in complex ways including positive and negative. The home remains significant for many men's desires for authority and identity. Using the lens of masculinity, this paper considers the ways in which men are experiencing this housing intervention, revealing a complex mix of outcomes in terms of their sense of identity, their relationships and their financial pressures and income generation. It draws on empirical work in South Africa to illuminate the importance of focusing on men in relation to housing and offers key questions for future research.

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Researching men: the politics and possibilities of a qualitative mixed-methods approach

Cited by 52 publications

References 23 publications

Traumatic masculinities: the gendered geographies of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia

Traumatic masculinities: the gendered geographies of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia

Grandfathering as spatio-temporal practice: conceptualizing performances of ageing masculinities in contemporary familial carescapes

Men’s experiences of state sponsored housing in South Africa: emerging issues and key questions

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