Key note speaker Cynthia Enloe

May 6th 2005

This one day workshop aims to bring together scholars whose work engages with issues concerning the study of masculinities in International Relations/International Political Economy. In particular we are keen to attract papers that engage with the idea of dominant forms of masculinity within global politics–hegemonic masculinity or hypermasculinity–and how these masculinities are produced within and are productive of global politics. The workshop is sponsored by the Centre for International Politics, University of Manchester and the BISA Gendering IR group. (1) Bringing the concept of hegemonic masculinities into the study of global politics

• The idea of global politics as a masculinised realm
• Capitalism, globalisation and masculinities
• Critical engagements with the concept of hegemonic masculinities within IR
• The relationship between studies of hegemony and hegemonic masculinity
• The relationship between feminist theorizing and the concept of hegemonic masculinities

• Studies of ‘masculinised’ actors within global politics (militaries, global corporations, foreign policy makers and diplomats, international financial institutions)
• Global media/film/imagery and hegemonic masculine norms/values
• Nationalism and masculinity
• Men and political action in global politics

• Alternative masculinities operating within global politics
• The contribution of queer theory in challenging hegemonic masculinities
• Feminities and resistances to hegemonic masculinities

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a brief CV to Juanita Elias (Juanita.elias@man.ac.uk) by 1st November 2004. We welcome submissions from both established academics and postgraduate students.