About this issue
Drawing on ecofeminist theory, environmental politics, and queer theory and ecology, this volume sheds light on the connections between masculinities and environmental change. The essays in this collection examine how hegemonic masculinities are performed and how they are reproduced under conditions of climate change, often perpetuating racial and gender inequalities and unequal power relations. The contributors reveal the making and negotiating of masculinities in very different cultural and economic settings, from central Africa to Central America, to the USA and Japan. Together, these scholars, academics, artists, and activists explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
How to cite: MacGregor, Sherilyn and Nicole Seymour (Eds). “Men and Nature: Hegemonic Masculinities and Environmental Change,” RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2017, no. 4. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7977.
Content
- Foreword: Masculinities in the Sociocene by Raewyn Connell
- Introduction by Sherilyn MacGregor and Nicole Seymour
- Representing Disaster with Resignation and Nostalgia: Japanese Men’s Responses to the 2011 Earthquake by Naoki Kambe
- Excuse Us, While We Fix the Sky: WEIRD Supermen and Climate Engineering by Jim Fleming
- Of Storms, Floods, and Flying Sharks: The Extreme Weather Hero in Contemporary American Culture by Susanne Leikam
- Masculinity, Work, and the Industrial Forest in the US Pacific Northwest by Erik Loomis
- Every Day Like Today: Learning How to Be a Man in Love (An Excerpt from the Manuscript) by Alex Carr Johnson
- Inventing Bushcraft: Masculinity, Technology, and Environment in Central Africa, ca. 750–1250 by Kathryn M. de Luna
- “The Love of the Chase Is an Inherent Delight in Man”: Hunting and Masculine Emotions in the Victorian Zoologist’s Travel Memoir by Will Abberley
- Rural Masculinities in Tension: Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation in Nicaragua by Noémi Gonda
- Taking Up Space: Men, Masculinity, and the Student Climate Movement by Jody Chan and Joe Curnow
- Boys Will Be Boys (An Art Installation: Staged Wilderness and Male Dreams) by Nicola Von Thurn
