Ugly bears and roosters: between privileges and epiphanies of masculinity
My intervention offers a narrative of my intellectual trajectory in terms of studies on men and masculinities, in the context of what was happening in anthropology and the political world, mainly in the United States and Mexico, and also in China. The editors of the magazine have asked me for a refl...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche |
| Repositorio: | REDIUMH. Depósito Digital de la UMH |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dspace.umh.es:11000/36588 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/11000/36588 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Men Masculinities Anthropological Fieldwork Ethnography Gender Equality Hombres Masculinidades Trabajo de campo antropológico Etnografía Igualdad de género CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales |
| Resumo: | My intervention offers a narrative of my intellectual trajectory in terms of studies on men and masculinities, in the context of what was happening in anthropology and the political world, mainly in the United States and Mexico, and also in China. The editors of the magazine have asked me for a reflective and theoretical text about my field work, my detours, contributions and failures, the pros and cons of my ethnographies and my teaching, that is, how I have tried to mark the unmarked. My purpose is to explore how my colleagues, friends and family have inspired and provoked me, how the experiences and aspirations with which my professional and personal life has been constituted have led me, in my studies on masculinities, to criticize harmful categories, biological extremisms. and cultural stagnation. In short, while gender and sexuality relations deeply affect the human mind, we cannot understand the human mind without understanding its political context. Of course, I have not been alone in this quest, as demonstrated by the other contributions by distinguished colleagues in this special issue of the journal. From the “ethnographic moment” to debates about power, “hegemonic masculinity” and “alternative masculinities”, over more than three decades, I have tried to offer not only new ethnographic data and new perspectives on men, but also to promote a dialogue to ask: What future can we imagine for masculinities? |
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