Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Transnational Dispersed Centres, Gender Power, Contradictions

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: unsustainable institutions of men: Transnational
dispersed centres and immanent contradictions
	The FIFAization of institutions
	Transnational centres: forms and contradictions
	The (un)sustainability of institutions
	Where does this book come from?
	Key aims and features
	Structure and summary of the book
	Notes
	References
PART I: Economy
	1. Interrogating transnational masculinities, fatherhood and the institutions of men: Rethinking gender equality in global finance and large international law firms
		Introduction
		A note on the background studies and methodology
		Contexts: approaching fatherhood in banking and law
		Unpacking the father as good banker-lawyer
		Concluding remarks
		References
	2. The innovation ecosystem: Interrogating (trans)national gender (un)sustainability in the new business centre
		Introduction
		The (un)sustainability of the national and the innovation ecosystem
		The (un)sustainability of gender in the entrepreneurialism of the innovation ecosystem
		Data and discussion
		Concluding discussion
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
		References
	3. Transnational football’s male elite: The unsustainability of FIFA?
		Introduction
		FIFAization: mega-events, power networks and authoritarian male leadership
		FIFA: from modern to transnational organization
		Blatter and beyond
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgement
		References
	4. Hegemony self-critique: How men in finance question aspects of masculine and economic hegemony from within
		Introduction: feminist contentions on hegemony self-critique
		Questioning the financial sector from within: an analysis of
autobiographies by insiders
		Hegemony self-critique: elaborating the concept
		Conclusion: conditions of possibility for emancipatory hegemony self-critique and coalitions
		Notes
		References
PART II: Politics
	5. The ends of imagination: Hindu nationalism, masculine networks and political transformation
		Introduction: shadows of the past
		Shadows of the present: the making of a virtual ‘public sphere’
		Shadow territories
		The commercial impetus
		The virtual nation
		Notes
		References
	6. Intentional impossibility: Sustainable transnational (male) clientelism versus an unsustainable environment
		Introduction
		Transnational clientelism: top-down and bottom-up
		Real problems and false solutions: contradictions, inversions
and ambiguities
		Conclusion: intentional impossibility
		Acknowledgment
		Notes
		References
	7. Contradictory consciousness: Men and feminist activism in the Caribbean
		Introduction
		Men and gender consciousness
		Coming to feminist consciousness
		Feminist men and women’s organizations
		The role of international organizations and donor agencies
		Organizing men
		Beyond contradictory consciousness?
		Notes
		References
PART III: Technologies
	8. Men, automobility, movements, and the environment: Imagining (un)sustainable, automated transport futures
		Introduction
		Power, domination and exploitation
		Sustainability and the dispersed transnational centres of transport
		Automobility
		The case of self-driving cars
		Conclusion: (un)sustainable, automated transport futures?
		Notes
		References
	9. ‘The performing rights of man’: The global music industries and transnational hegemonies of men
		Introduction
		The global music industries today
		Production: the GMI and transnational hegemonies of men
		Consumption: men and music markets
		Representation: hearing ‘hyper-’ and selling ‘soft-’ masculinities
		Conclusions
		References
	10. Electronic pornography and the transnational assemblage of sexuality
		Introduction
		Centres of dispersion, the dispersion of centres, and dispersion as centre
		The institutionalization of gender and sexuality in porn
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	11. Gender trouble in cyberwar: Multiple masculinities and femininities of a cyberspy in the War on Terror
		Military masculinities in cyberwar
		Online militant masculinities
		Meta-masculinities
		Offline femininities
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
PART IV: Bodies
	12. The dynamics of displacement: Diasporic masculinities between margins and centres
		Introduction
		On marginalization and hegemony
		Gendering ‘modernities’: redressing (post)colonial globalization
		The remnants of the empire: immigrant men in a postcolonial society
		Diasporic masculinities and the dialectics of otherness
		Final remarks: the commodification of masculinity in postcolonial diasporas
		Notes
		References
	13. Transnational ‘winner’ masculinities: Modernity and the transformation of intimacy
		Introduction
		Transformation of intimacy: transnational sexual markets and dislocations
		Transnational bodies: race, class, and desires
		MSM and gay men’s sexual lives: from heteroflexibility to versatility?
		Reconfiguring modernity: transnational ‘winner’ masculinity
		Conclusion
		References
	14. Men and masculinities offside?: The [un]sustainability of the power of men
		Men`s privilege or burden?
		Researching masculinities offside in the Czech context
		Masculinities offside in environmental protection
		(Un)sustainable active versus caring fatherhood?
		Medical uniforms and (un)sustainable power of medical professionals
		Men offside? The boundaries of power (un)sustainability
		Notes
		References
Index