Masculinities under Neoliberalism

Andrea Cornwall is professor of anthropology and international development in the School of Global Studies at Sussex University. She has published widely in the fields of gender and development studies, and is the editor of Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies (with Nancy Lindisfarne, 1994) and Men and Development: Politicising Masculinities (with Jerker Edström and Alan Greig, Zed Books, 2011).Frank G. Karioris is a doctoral candidate in comparative gender studies, with a specialization in sociology and social anthropology from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. His dissertation focuses on men’s homosocial relations in an all-male university residence hall in the US. He has published in the Institute of Development Studies’ IDS Bulletin, as well as co-editing the book Reimagining Masculinities (2015).Nancy Lindisfarne taught social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London for many years. She has done anthropological fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, in a Turkish town, and among the urban bourgeoisie in Syria. Her publications include Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies (co-edited with Andrea Cornwall, 1994), Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society (1991), Languages of Dress in the Middle East (with Bruce Ingham, 1997), Thank God, We’re Secular: Gender, Islam and Turkish Republicanism (2001) and a book of short stories, Dancing in Damascus (2000), which also appeared in Arabic and Turkish.

Masculinities under Neoliberalism stands out because of its rich case studies and its timely focus on how masculinities are subject to change in a neoliberal system.

• Preface1. Introduction: Masculinities under Neoliberalism - Andrea Cornwall2. Masculinities and the Lived Experience of Neoliberalism - Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale3. In Search of 'Stability': Working-class Men, Masculinity and Wellbeing in Contemporary Russia - Charlie Walker4. 'Filial Son', Dislocated Masculinity and the Making of Male Migrant Workers in Urban China - Xiaodong Lin5. Taking the Long View: Attaining and Sustaining Masculinity across the Life Course in South India - Penny Vera-Sanso6. Desperate Markets and Desperate Masculinities in Morocco - Joe Hayns7. Neutralized Bachelors, Infantilized Arabs: Between Migrant and Host – Gendered and Sexual Stereotypes in Abu Dhabi - Jane Bristol-Rhys and Caroline Osella8. Windsurfers, Capoeiristas and Musicians: Brazilian Masculinities in Transnational Scenarios - Adriana Piscitelli9. 'I must stand like a man': Masculinity in Crisis in Post-war Sierra Leone - Luisa Enria10. Fatherhood and Intergenerational Struggles in the Construction of Masculinities in Huambo, Angola - John Spall11. Masculinity, Marriage and the Bible: New Pentecostalist Masculinities in Zimbabwe - Diana Jeater12. From Big Man to Whole Man: Making Moral Masculinities at the YMCA - Ross Wignall13. (Dis)locating Masculinities: Ethnographic Reflections of British Muslim Young Men - Mairtin Mac an Ghaill and Chris Haywood14. Football Field, Bar, and Street Corner: Sports, Space, and Masculinities in Rural Jamaica - William Tantam15. Ducks, Dogs, and Men: 'Natural' Masculinities in New Zealand Duck Hunting - Carmen McLeod16. (Dis)locations of Homosociality: Men in an All-Male University Residence Hall - Frank G. Karioris17. Homosociality and Heterosex: Patterns of Intimacy and Relationality among Men in the London 'Seduction Community' - Rachel O'Neill