Frank G. Karioris's research while affiliated with University of Pittsburgh and other places

... Neoliberal political-economic policies-deregulation of markets, reduction of welfare and social security, privatization of public services, cutting corporation taxes, and reducing the power of unions (Cornwall et al., 2016)-have had and continue having a broad impact on all social spheres. As video games have reached the cultural mainstream in the 1970s, at around the same time as the first neoliberal policies started being adopted across the world, masculinity in and around video games should also be understood in the context of these transformations. ...

... In our previous introductory editorial (Allan et al. 2020), we spoke about many of the issues that seemed, at that time, impending, forthcoming, or yet-to-be fully realized in our world. We note this here, as this much shorter and less thoroughly citational editorial introduction builds on this, and, rather than having seen much change, is, in many ways, finding itself in a similar place. ...

... Bride price has been an integral part of marriage rites and ceremonies in African and Asian culture, which involves the exchange of materials or money from the man's household to the woman's household and the practice differs across different regions. Studies have reported the potential negative impacts of bride price on women in some regions, which include forced marriages, early pregnancy, domestic violence, and female abuse and death [1] [2] [3]. Correspondingly, men turn out to be the gainers. ...

... The potential pathways to take a cosmopolitan critique of media governance further need to follow scholarly, institutional, and pedagogical approaches on all macro, meso, and micro levels and their intersections. As Moyo (2020) argued, we cannot discuss epistemic transformation without thinking about the role universities have played in circumventing change through the promotion of canonic thinking, their emphasis on key scholars, and, in general, their promotion of dominating power structures and academic knowledge-making that leaves little room for the other to be recognized and engaged with (Grosfoguel et al. 2016). Cosmopolitanism, however, is thought "to engage the margins as complex sites of 'otherness,' as well as inequality and power struggles" (Masiero et al. 2021, p. 17). ...

... A. Allan 2019). Karioris et al. (2019) state that research on men and sexuality often theorises on "mad sexuality" (e.g. sexual violence) but little attention is paid to men's "sane sexuality", exploring how men experience and redefine their sexuality through consensual sex acts with different genders (p. ...

... Many of these tweets made penile references implying that men supporting #HowIWillChange were less masculine or sexually incompetent. This speaks to our culture's socially constructed perception of the penis/testicles and overt male sexuality as symbolic of power, status, and dominance, the same values revered in toxic masculinity (Karioris & Allan, 2017). The attacks imply that "real men" maintain control over women, and that empathizing with women's experiences of sexual violence is symbolic of relinquishment of the power men have been given by living in a patriarchal society. ...

... In the latter case, and particularly in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, these camps have been likened to widespread 'warehousing of refugees' (Smith 2004) in what Malkki (2002) calls 'vast zones of asylum.' Some have qualified these living conditions as 'liminal' (Mortland 1987;Purdeková 2011;Siganporia and Karioris 2016), described in anthropology as the period of limbo and transition between social positions in life (Turner 1967) and where refugees and asylum seekers are perceived to experience a ' conditional emplacement … and the ambiguity characteristic of that position' (Svensson and Eastmond 2013: 163). ...

... But, given the focus on intersectionality here, why 'patriarchy', rather than 'kyriarchy'; where multiple intersecting systems of oppression interact without the one necessarily being more fundamental than others? (Karioris 2014). Without reading too much into the notion of 'fundamental' here, and without dwelling on the point that such a framework would dilute the focus on the pervasive problem of gender inequality, there are several good reasons to view patriarchy as a powerful underlying organising principle in most social systems built on inequality. ...