Format/Structure

We propose a standard panel format comprising up to four paper presentations, followed by a moderated discussion.

Long Abstract

Masculinity studies are increasingly intersecting with planetary crises, illuminating how extractive capitalism and patriarchy co-produce ecological and social harm. This panel explores how masculinities function as both drivers and symptoms of the Anthropocene - understood not as a new era, but a long-standing trajectory of environmental degradation legitimized in the name of ‘development’. While the gendered and racialized impacts of climate collapse are well established, less common - but urgently needed - are analyses that interrogate how masculinities and patriarchal structures themselves shape, sustain, and resist planetary destruction.

The term (m)Anthropocene has been used to describe such entanglements along critical conceptualisations such as industrial/breadwinner masculinities, petromasculinity, ecomodern- and prefigurative ones such as ecological masculinities and caring masculinities. This panel invites scholars who engage in genders studies, specifically those focusing on masculinities research in relation to issues such as energy, climate, biodiversity, rights of nature, extractivism etc. to make sense of how we can allow the warming earth as well as pointing towards prefigurative politics repairing our human common planet. This panel will highlight planetary issues as climate, environment, the more-than-human, energy, sustainability, social-ecological justice, and various (m)Anthropocentric encounters.

To this panel we welcome contributions that pay attention to artistic/activist modes of re-articulation of relations between masculinities, nature, animals as well as the marginalized other and the politics and ethics embedded in it. We also welcome analytical, empirical, theoretical and methodological contributions from within gender studies, ecofeminism, indigenous studies, decolonial theories, environmental humanities, feminist posthumanities, feminist animal studies, and feminist STS and more. We especially welcome non-Western, queer, non-binary and trans, queercrip, and indigenous perspectives and voices to challenge the often implicitly white and Western parameters of what is considered a feminist environmental theorization.

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