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This book interrogates the question of how 'Man' as a gendered being is entangled with nature, culture, materiality and corporeality and they explore ways to unsettle men's sense of sovereignty to decentre anthropocentric masculinity.
About the author
Ulf Mellström is an anthropologist and Professor of Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He has published extensively within the areas of masculinity studies, transport and mobility studies, gender and technology, gender, risk and crisis management, engineering studies, globalisation and higher education and South East Asian Studies with a particular focus on Malaysia. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of one of the leading journals dedicated to studies of Men and Masculinities – NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies. His recent book publications include (Forstorp and Mellström, 2018) Higher Education, Globalisation and Eduscapes: Towards a Critical Anthropology of a Global Knowledge Society and (Gottzén, Mellström and Shefer, 2020) Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies.
Bob Pease is Honorary Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University and Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. He has published extensively on masculinity politics and critical social work practice, including five books as single author and 15 books as co-editor. His most recent books include Doing Critical Social Work (co-editor, 2016), Men, Masculinities and Disaster (co-editor, 2016), Radicals in Australian Social Work (co-editor, 2017), Critical Ethics of Care in Social Work: Transforming the Politics and Practices of Caring (co-editor, 2018), Facing Patriarchy: From a Violent Gender Order to a Culture of Peace (2019) and Post-Anthropocentric Social Work: Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives (co-editor, 2021).
Summary
This book interrogates the question of how ‘Man’ as a gendered being is entangled with nature, culture, materiality and corporeality and they explore ways to unsettle men’s sense of sovereignty to decentre anthropocentric masculinity.
