Men and Masculinities at the Margins

“Many margins, many struggles, many masculinities. This is a rich collection of research with boys and men making their lives in the face of mass poverty, changing technology, global inequality and new patterns of bigotry and violence. There are striking insights into migration, emotions, the online world of gender, the realities of caste and race. And though there are tragedies here, the strongest impression I bring away from this book is the energy and creativity of the responses to hard conditions.”

Raewyn Connell, Professor Emerita, University of Sydney, Australia

"Men and Masculinities at the Margins is an inspiring and eloquent book that offers a critical lens through which to examine masculinities and the lives of men across diverse social and cultural contexts. It places particular emphasis on conditions of intersectional marginalisations, precariousness, and violences in a world where virtuality increasingly shapes the experience and configuration of masculine subjectivities. The book addresses the crucial challenges of conceiving masculinities as always 'situated', and the importance of understanding men and masculinities through a relational and historical perspective where structural and dynamic inequalities create the interstices through which power and resistance coexist and flow. The book explores these issues within the frameworks of decoloniality and intersectionality, showing stories of men who are racialised, classed, gendered, and sexualised within ageist, heteronormative, and ableist societies."

Salvador Cruz Sierra, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico

"The project of centering the margins for a better understanding of all masculinities is well overdue. Men and masculinities at the margins does this through a wide-ranging examination of the dynamic and relational constitution of masculinities historically, structurally, and intersectionally. With original and nuanced insights from around the world and in digital spaces, this theoretically generative volume thinks in multitudes. In its vision and purpose it demonstrates the very best of decolonial scholarship to chart a path for the next generation of masculinities research."

Jordanna Matlon, American University, Washington DC, USA

"This volume breaks new ground in examining the configurations of masculinity and the configurations of marginality in tandem. The introductory chapters make a convincing case that marginalised masculinities are central sites for innovative theorizations – specifically of the entanglements of gender with overlapping infrastructures of inequalities from racialized colonialism, capitalism, to technological developments. The authors locate men’s complex struggles for gendered and moral authority within their specific experiences of marginalization – from Brazilian young men involved in urban violence, to “casteed” corporate executives in India, and trans fathers on Tiktok. For those who are interested in the theorisation of masculinity from an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach grounded in the Global South, this is a must read!"

Sealing Cheng, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong