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Role of men and masculinities in authoritarian political agendas, political organisations, policies, and political discourse
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Influences of hierarchical divisions along national/transnational, local/global, and Global North/Global South relating to men’s experiences and conceptions of masculinities.
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The ways in which the strategies and practices of movements for gender equality need to change in the current sociopolitical atmosphere
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The part masculinities play in the ongoing wars, ethnic and religious conflicts, local resistance movements, and collective visions for the future
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Militarization, military expenditures, peacekeeping operations of transnational organizations, and peace activism
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Sexualities, bodies, desires, pornography
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Intimacy, emotions, affects, subjectivities
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Neoliberal economic policies, structures of employment, sexual division of labour
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Sexual identities, ambiguity and fluidity in and queering of masculinities, performativity
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Influences of feminist and LGBTI+ movements on masculinity studies and their affinities
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Uses and usefulness of the current concepts of masculinity studies in the struggle against sexism and heterosexism
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Masculinity studies and the hierarchies within the academia and the knowledge production processes