Men, Masculinities, and Earth - Contending with the (m)Anthropocene

This book considers issues of social and ecological significance through a masculinities lens. Earth - our home for aeons - is reeling. The atmosphere is heating up, causing reefs to bleach, fisheries to collapse, regions to flood and dry, vast tracts to burn, the polar ice caps to melt, ancient glaciers to retreat, biodiversity to decline exacerbated by the sixth great extinction, and more. Meanwhile, social and economic disparities are widening. Pandemics are cauterising glocal communities and altering our social mores. Nationalism is feeding divisiveness and hate, especially through men's violence. Politically extreme individuals and groups are exalting freedom while scapegoating the marginalised. Such are the symptoms of an emerging (m)Anthropocene. This anthology contends with these alarming trends, pointing our attention towards their gendered origins. Building on our monograph Ecological Masculinities: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Guidance (2018), this collection of essays is framed as a dinner party conversation grouped into six discursive themes. Their views reflect a growing community of practice, whose combined efforts capture the most recent perspectives on masculine ecologisation. Together, they aim to help create a more caring world for all, moving the ecological masculinities conversation forward as it becomes an established, international, and pluralised field of study.

List of contents

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 solation 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 CanFiction 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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hultman (Editor), Hultman (Editor), Marti Hultman (Editor), Martin Hultman (Editor), Pau M Pulé (Editor), Paul M Pulé (Editor), Pulé (Editor), Paul Pulé (Editor), Paul M. Pulé (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2020
• EAN: 9783030544850
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3054485-0
• No. of pages: 648
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 41 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 1106 g
• Illustrations: XXI, 648 p. 4 illus., 2 illus. in color.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Political sociology