Book symposium: men, masculinities and southern urbanism
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Date
2025
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Routledge
Abstract
This book symposium is a multilogue on four books Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: The Pressure of Being a Man in an African City, by Mario Schmidt; City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport, by Romit Chowdhury; Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony, by Shannon Philip; and A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism, by Jordanna C. Matlon. The discussion, held between the four authors, along with Jeff Hearn and Kopano Ratele, addresses: the background to the books based in Kenya, India and Côte d’Ivoire respectively; main contributions around men, masculinities and urbanism; ethnography and other methodologies; relations to Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities, Feminist and Human Geography, and kindred disciplines, and ways forward.
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Côte d’Ivoire, Decolonial, Feminist Geography, Human Geography, Urban Sociology
Citation
Chowdhury, R., Hearn, J., Matlon, J., Philip, S., Ratele, K. and Schmidt, M., 2025. Book symposium: men, masculinities and Southern urbanism. Gender, Place & Culture, pp.1-19.