Jeff Hearn

• PhD (Brad.), MA (Oxon.), MA (Leeds), PGDipTP (Ox.Br.), FAcSS, Hon PhD (Lund)
• Professor (Full) at Hanken Schoolof Economics/University of Huddersfield

The paper addresses gender-based violence (GBV) in higher education institutions (HEI) and research performing organisations (RPOs) understood as work, workplace, employment, occupational, organisational, professional and managerial sites. The data are based on the EU funded UniSAFE and include an online survey of prevalence and consequences of GBV...

This paper presents a critical analysis of the links between modernization and masculinities in Türkiye through the case of the regulation of men’s hair in the civil service. The Turkish civil service is an institution where the state has accumulated and deployed power, disciplined its civil servant employees, and shaped and transformed masculiniti...

Collaboration is a central activity in and around academia. This is especially so in feminist-gender research, teaching and development. However, the collaborative impulse within feminisms can be in tension with some of the conditions of contemporary academia. The neoliberalization of universities, academia, and science has changed the structural,...

The concept of care can refer to many different forms of caring activity. Care can also refer to organized systems of care, and it can be conceptualized as both work and care for others. Both care and care work are gendered and operate on transnational, nation-state, organizational, community, family and individual levels, and often in intersection...

Developments in digital technologies might provide limitless ways to reshape humanity's very existence, but also open up, what we term "bounded limitless" opportunities for digital gender-sexual violations (DGSV). That is, "limitless" opportunities for men to sexually violate women within the inherent "boundedness" of digital technological infrastr...

This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men’s violence. In actively countering, both, the compartmentalisation of studies of violence by ‘type’ and form, and the tendency to conceptualise violence narrowly, it...

This entry addresses sexuality education about the intersection of sexuality and gendered violence, with a focus on men’s violence against women which is the dominant pattern of interpersonal violence. The field of anti-violence work by both activists and official agents (such as criminal justice systems, education systems, and public health) is va...

In this blog article we present some insights based on the Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations, edited by Jeff Hearn, Kadri Aavik, David L. Collinson and Anika Thym, with a focus on the Swiss context of the Gender Campus blog: https://www.gendercampus.ch/de/blog/post/the-importance-of-understanding-men-masculinities-and-organ...

In the ever-changing landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI), discussions frequently revolve around innovation, efficiency, and forward progress. Where concerns about AI are expressed, they tend to focus on the futuristic existential threat of machines taking control of humans. However, amidst the whirlwind of advancements in AI and deepfake tech...

This article critically interrogates and evaluates the concept of political masculinities as part of enhancing dialogue between political science and critical studies on men and masculinities. It discusses what counts as masculinity, what counts as political and how they connect. The connections are all too clear in mainstream politics, not only in...

This chapter reviews empirical and theoretical work within critical studies on men and masculinities (CSMM), drawing on extensive empirical and theoretical studies relevant to psychology and social psychology. The chapter focuses on gender relations and power dynamics, social structures, intersectionality, bodies, practices, and identities, both in...

Purpose The digital age requires people of all ages to communicate and organise their lives through digital technologies. The project EQualCare investigates how the growing population of older people living alone is managing this transition, how it shapes their (non-)digital social networks and what changes on a local level need to be brought about...

How to represent violence-that is, talk about, write about and image violence-without reproducing violence/violation, is a challenge. Violence can be presented, represented , and represented in many ways, and through diverse narratives. In this paper, we analyse the narratives of those using violence, either when subsequently talking about the viol...

Editorial Introduction to The Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities & Organizations.

This interview article addresses: the state of current debates and key priority areas in Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities, including the implications for men and masculinities in contemporary global conditions: the concept of gex; gender- and sexuality-based violence and digital technology; the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on men and m...

In recent decades, huge technological changes have opened up possibilities and potentials for new socio-technological forms of violence, violation and abuse, themselves intersectionally gendered, that form part of and extend offline intimate partner violence (IPV). Digital IPV (DIPV)-the use of digital technologies in and for IPV-takes many forms,...

Adverts tell a story and comprise images that old men encounter in their everyday lives, and which provide popular scripts on ageing masculinity. This chapter focuses on old men’s own understandings of advertising and their depictions of old men. Focus group interviews with Swedish old men, aged between 65 and 92, were conducted, with commercial ad...

As you get older, a couple of things happen – the probability of your own dying increases, and so too does that of friends. So, recently there have been the deaths of some very good friends and colleagues.

Definition Image-based sexual abuse describes the offline or online non-consensual sharing of real or fake images or videos with (un)known others of a person that are either sexually explicit or sexually suggestive. New information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide many open-ended and undefined possibilities for image-based sexual abuse...

In seeking to explain intimate partner violence (IPV), feminist research has shifted its focus from individual explanations to the social contexts of such violence. Adopting such a perspective, we explore the narratives of three men who identify as perpetrators of violence and three women who identify as victims/survivors of IPV. Our analyses focus...

In deze bundel staat de rol van kunst, cultuur en politiek bij transities en de strijd voor sociale rechtvaardigheid centraal. Soms zijn deze transities traumatische en gewelddadige processen zoals in het geval van Zuid-Afrika na de apartheid. In andere gevallen, zoals in Europa, gaat het om langdurige geschiedenissen die verband hebben met kolonia...

In this paper, we examine the nature and limits of violence by way of a comparison of the physical violence and online violation, in terms of their form, structure and effects. We explore similarities and dissimilarities in what precedes the event, perpetrator intentions and motivations, the forms and types of violence, the medium through which the...

In recent years, there has been a rise in portrayals of greying protagonists in popular fiction, often featuring older people in humorous and heart-warming stories. An emerging genre within this literature is the “geezer and grump lit”, a genre where older people are active protagonists, and while often portrayed as grumpy “’usually turn out to hav...

This article derives from considering the interrelations of two sets of long-term international work: that on interdisciplinary crisis studies and that on critical studies on men and masculinities. More specifically, it interrogates the place and potential of crisis and crises in the politics and problematics of men and masculinities, including how...

This paper critically interrogates the usefulness of the concept of violence regimes for social politics, social analysis, and social theory. In the first case, violence regimes address and inform politics and policy, that is, social politics, both around various forms of violence, such as gender-based violence, violence against women, anti-lesbian...

This article considers some key aspects of patriarchy and violence and the relationship between patriarchy and violence. It notes that the concept of patriarchy is necessary to understand violence. It encourages the reader to think broadly in terms of the meanings and mechanisms of violence, and in terms of its locations, as well as the links betwe...

The Reader Collective Memory-Work is meant to foster further exchange about Collective Memory-Work, its use and usefulness, methodological questions, aspects of its adaptation/s, critical elements found in CMW, exemplary applications in various fields of practice and research. Included in the Reader are: first-time English translations of texts by...

Through the latter half of the twentieth century, the commodification of men’s lifestyles has grown apace, such that men’s lifestyles in the global North are routinely sold for the various ways they present alternative forms of masculinity. Simultaneously, men’s growing participation in the service sector, as well as an emphasis on cultures of care...

Is ecological sensitivity sufficient for revolutionising gender relations? Are eco-communities sites from where new masculinities can arise that are truly caring towards nature as well as women, other men and further genders? Could eco-villages be hatcheries of “ecological masculinity”? We present Estonian men eco-communards’ “gender-neutral holist...

In this contribution, I consider some appreciative links and qualified connections between Raewyn Connell’s work and my own. In particular, I use the example of sport, a key area in the making of boys and young men in many parts of the world, with special reference to body, practice, and theoretical and empirical conceptualizations of masculinity.

In this contribution, I consider some appreciative links and qualified connections between Raewyn Connell’s work and my own. In particular, I use the example of sport, a key area in the making of boys and young men in many parts of the world, with special reference to body, practice, and theoretical and empirical conceptualizations of masculinity.

How to represent violence—that is, talk about, write about, and image violence—without reproducing violence/violation is a challenge. Violence can be presented, re-presented, and represented in many ways, and through diverse narratives. In this article we analyze the narratives of those using violence, either when subsequently talking about the vio...

Measuring violence against women raises methodological questions, as well as the wider question of how to understand violence and locate it in relation to a societal context. This is all the more relevant given that measurement of violence against women in the EU has made an interesting phenomenon apparent, the so-called ‘Nordic Paradox’, whereby p...

‘Upskirting’ is the action or practice of surreptitiously taking photographs or videos up a female’s skirt or dress. In the UK it is an offence. However, internationally, laws are uneven. Understanding how perpetrators account for their actions becomes an important question. Here we present the findings of our thematic analysis of posts on the ‘up...

The aim of the article is to examine if and how the welfare state regime typology translates into a violence regime typology in a European context. It builds on the concept of violence regimes (Strid et al. 2017; Hearn et al. 2020) to empirically examine whether the production of interpersonal violence constitutes distinct regimes, and how these co...

It is with tremendous sadness that I am writing of the death of Marina Hughson on 6 June 2020, following a short illness. Marina was a sociologist, feminist, International Sociological Association RC32 Member, Research Professor/Principal Researcher, the Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research in Belgrade, Serbia, and Research Direct...

It is with very great sadness that I write on the recent death on 17 June 2020 of David H. J. Morgan, Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of Manchester. David taught at Manchester from 1964, and his major contributions led to the founding of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Everyday Lives there on his official retirement. He was President...

Both more immediate and longer-term forms of emotion are highly relevant to researching on violence. This chapter discusses: how emotions can be important in organising research on violence; emotions in doing research the field, and in interviewing men on violence; the relations between the emotions of interviewees and the emotions of researchers;...

This article investigates the gendered dynamics of motherhood and careers, as voiced by professionals in the knowledge-intensive business sector in Finland. It is informed by the CIAR-method through iterative, 81 in-depth interviews with 23 women and 19 men. Among the women respondents with no children, one child, or two children, three dominant fo...

https://theconversation.com/trump-v-biden-a-duel-of-contrasting-masculinities-148300.......... The second and last US presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was another round in a duel between two very distinct forms of masculinity. An excellent moderator, Kristen Welker, combined with rule changes that reduced the candidates’ abil...

The International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) (https://www.ipsp.org/) was conceived around 2012 and early 2013, as a large independent non-governmental social science operation, paralleling in some ways IPCC. The idea was discussed at the “Think Global” conference May 2013 (https://penserglobal.hypotheses.org/35), and then officially started su...

The International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) (https://www.ipsp.org/) was conceived around 2012 and early 2013, as a large independent non-governmental social science operation, paralleling in some ways IPCC. The idea was discussed at the “Think Global” conference May 2013 (https://penserglobal.hypotheses.org/35), and then officially started su...

The striking image of a maskless Donald Trump standing defiantly on the White House balcony on his return from hospital exemplifies how so-called "strong leadership" continues to be associated with men and masculinity. Trump reinforced this masculine imagery by claiming to be "a warrior" who is "immune from the virus." In this ILA reflection, we qu...

What happens when we focus primarily on violence as a central question—either within the gender regime approach or by making violence regime an approach in itself? The article first interrogates gender regimes theoretically and empirically through a focus on violence, and then develops violence regimes as a fruitful approach, conceptualizing violen...

Purpose Privilege is often silent, invisible and not made explicit, and silence is a key question for theorizing on organizations. This paper examines interrelations between privilege and silence for relatively privileged professionals in high-intensity knowledge businesses (KIBs). Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on 112 interviews in...