North-South dialogues: reflecting on working transnationally with young men, masculinities and gender justice
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Date
2015
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Scandinavian University Press
Abstract
Dialoguing across national borders and specifically global North-South centres and
margins has increasingly been viewed as a way to enhance critical and feminist studies
and engagement with men and masculinities. This article draws on narratives
generated by a group of researchers in South Africa and Finland who have been
engaged in a transnational research project that included a strong focus on young men,
masculinities and gender and sexual justice. The piece provides an account of the
nuanced and complex experiences and dynamics involved in transnational research
collaboration, particularly within the framework on historical and continued inequalities
between the global North and South. While obvious benefits are raised, this
experience also foregrounds a range of challenges and constraints involved in
transnational research collaboration within this field and possibly many others. Key
learnings gleaned from this analysis of reported experiences and thoughts include the
importance of careful, considered and critical reflexivity at all moments and at all
levels, both in interpersonal and intergroup relations, as well as in public representation
of collaborative work.
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Transnational, Collaboration, Global North and South, Critical reflexivity, Young men, Masculinities
Citation
Shefer, T. et al. (2015) North-South dialogues: reflecting on working transnationally with young men, masculinities and gender justice. NORMA, 10(2): 164-178