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Title Masculinities in the Wasteland: (Post)colonial Capitalism in the West, China, and Africa
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/10451/61445
Date 2023
Author(s) Aboim, Sofia; Machado, Mabel; Zhang, Ling Eleanor
Abstract In this chapter, we argue that decolonial and postcolonial critical theorization matter for critically analysing masculinities in organizations. In close conversation with the decolonial and the postcolonial critique of capitalism, we examine how masculinity and masculine power are linked to different forms of epistemic and organizational violence in different geographic locations. In this way, we claim that under post/colonial forms of capitalism, organizational practices and cultures contribute to producing a hierarchical system, with some masculinities over and above others. We sustain our argument by examining exemplary dynamics of masculinity in the West, China and across Africa. First, we observe the legacies of European imperialism. Second, we turn to Asia ' China, in particular ' and observe how contemporary capitalism reproduces, across nations and beyond the west, the hierarchies of hegemonic masculinity. Finally, we zoom in to Southern Africa and highlight how capitalist organizations work until today to oppress and dispossess subaltern men at the intersection of gender, class and race. While this chapter focuses on the violence of class inequality and post/colonial exploitation reproducing a 'wasteland' of disenfranchised masculinities, it also highlights the power of localized strategies of resistance against oppression and alternative organizational cultures. - info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language eng
Publisher Routledge
Relation https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003193579-8/masculinities-wasteland-sofia-aboim-mabel-machado-ling-eleanor-zhang?context=ubx&refId=51bfb29b-5d4d-4b95-99cf-a46b3712bb6b
Type of publication bookPart
Rights restrictedAccess
Identifier Author version of: Aboim, S., Machado, M., Zhang, L. E. (2023). Masculinities in the Wasteland: (Post)colonial Capitalism in the West, China, and Africa. In Jeff Hearn, Kadri Aavik, David L. Collinson, Anika Thym (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, Practices and Futures of Organizing. (eBook Published 24 November 2023)
Repository Lissabon - University of Lissabon
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