Men, Masculinities, and Earth: Contending with the (M)Anthropocene

ISBN-13: 9783030544850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 638 str.

Paul M. Pul?; Martin Hultman

Spis treści

1. Burning (and Drowning) in a Hell of Our Own Making

INTRODUCTION

2. Conversations at the Table

DISCUSSION 1: Movements - Masculinities in Transition

3. After the Fires: Thoughts on Masculinities, the Sociocene, 

and Environmental Struggle

4. Masculinity, Nature, Ecofeminism, and the “Anthropo”cene

5. Masculinities, Nature, and Vulnerability: Towards a Transcorporeal 

Poetics in Washington Irving and Walt Whitman

DISCUSSION 2: Thoughts – Conceptual Developments

6. Island Kings: Imperial Masculinity and Climate Fragilities

7. The Process of Ecologisation: Is Schwarzenegger Back to 

Teach Us Something New?

8. Nature, Masculinities, Care, and the Far-Right

9. Fuelling Conservation EcoAnxieties: Pumping and Trumping Tensions Between Industrial/Breadwinner and Ecomodern American Masculinities, 2008-2013

DISCUSSION 3: Spaces – Sites for Synthesis

10. Ecomasculinity, Livelihood Security, Caring, and Resilience in the Aftermath of Disasters and Ecological Devastation

11. Masculinisation and Isolation of the Swedish Anti-nuclear Movement After 1980: 

A Call for Environmentalists to Learn From the Past

12. Masculinity, Work, and the Industrial Forest in the 

U.S. Pacific Northwest

13. Re-negotiating Rural Masculinities as Vulnerability: Cattle Ranchers 

in Climate Change Affected Rural Nicaragua

14. Doing Gender by Not Doing Gender in Eco-communities: Masculine 

Identity Talk Within a “Gender-Neutral” Worldview

DISCUSSION 4: Embodiments – Visceral Transformations

15. Vegan Men: Towards Greater Care for (Non)human Others, 

Earth, and Self

16. “Desire to be Connected to Nature”: Materialism and Masculinity in 

YouTube Videos by Salomon

17. Expressing Resignation and Nostalgia as/for Ecological Masculinities: 

Japanese Male Writers’ Responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake

18. Cultivated/ing Masculinities in William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

DISCUSSION 5: Narratives – When Facts Meet Fictions

19. Ecomasculinity, Ecomasculinism, and the Superhero Genre: 

Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing

20. How Can Fiction Help Raise Ecological Awareness?

Ecological masculinities in The Space Merchants

21. Coyote Practices: Ecomasculinities in Postmodern U.S. Literature

22. The Eco(centric) Border Man: Masculinities and the Nonhuman in 

Jim Lynch’s Border Songs

23. Men, Individualism, and Process: A Pardoner’s tale

DISCUSSION 6:  Futures – Masculinities Beyond Fossil Fuels 

24. Excuse Us, While We Fix the Sky: WEIRD Supermen and 

Climate Intervention

25. Queering the Climate

26. From Ecomasculinity to Profeminist Environmentalism: Recreating Men’s Relationship with Nature

27. Diving with Ecobutches and Ecological Feminist Futures: The Matrix of 

Deep Time, Keening Earth Grief, Queer Kinship and Possibility World-weaving

CONCLUSION

28. Going Forth with Gusto and Grace

O autorze

Paul M. Pulé is an Australian social and environmental justice activist and scholar, specialising in the theoretical and practical aspects of men, masculinities, and Earth. Along with Ecological Masculinities (2018), recent additional publications on the topic include Climate Hazards, Disasters, And Gender Ramifications (2019); Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction (2019); Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies (2019). His research informs popular science reports on the masculinities of climate denial, with applications in Transitions community activism as well.

Martin Hultman is a scholar/activist of energy, climate, and environmental issues. His publications in Environmental Humanities, NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, History & Technology, and Hydrogen Energy, along with numerous books, special issues, contributions to two handbooks, and journal articles, weave together masculinities, Nature rights, and Earth care. Notable amongst there are Ecological Masculinities (2018), Nature's Rights: Making Peace with the Earth (2019). He is a frequent contributor to newspapers, public discussions, interviews, and lectures exploring the Environmental Humanities.