Alan Greig
University of Sussex, School of Media, Film and Music, Graduate Student
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The War on Drugs in the United States has polarized the debate on how to deal effectively with drug use and prevention and makes it difficult to form an agenda to address the harm of drug use. Harm-reduction activists and drug-user groups... more
The War on Drugs in the United States has polarized the debate on how to deal effectively with drug use and prevention and makes it difficult to form an agenda to address the harm of drug use. Harm-reduction activists and drug-user groups need to establish common ground to develop programs acceptable to all parties. The harm-reduction approach is based on the premise that adverse consequences of a harmful act, drug use in this case, can be mitigated without necessarily reducing consumption. Needle exchange programs are a good example of this approach. There are 100 such programs in the United States, and the programs are seen as an effective means of reducing HIV transmission. However, the programs remain politically sensitive and Federal funding is outlawed. The War on Drugs programs can conflict with HIV prevention programs; programs that might reduce the incidence of HIV infection but do not criminalize or stigmatize drug use are rarely socially acceptable. In the U.S., about half of all new HIV cases can be attributed to drug use. One-third of the increase in prison populations since 1980 is a consequence of the number of drug-law violators in the prison system. The impact of moral conservatism and how the drug laws are affected by class, race, and gender are discussed. Groups involved with combating drug use and preventing HIV transmission will need to form alliances to develop programs mutually beneficial to their audiences.
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Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities features an exciting collection of contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development. Together, contributors... more
Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities features an exciting collection of contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development. Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on both men's and women's lives. The book calls for renewed engagement in efforts to challenge and change stereotypes of men, to dismantle the structural barriers to gender equality, and to mobilize men to build new alliances with women's movements and other movements for social and gender justice
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This paper discusses the role of men in redressing gender inequalities by exploring the meanings and uses of masculinity. Discussions on masculinity provide a place in which mens involvement in producing and challenging inequalities and... more
This paper discusses the role of men in redressing gender inequalities by exploring the meanings and uses of masculinity. Discussions on masculinity provide a place in which mens involvement in producing and challenging inequalities and inequities in gender and other social relations can be investigated. In this paper masculinity is defined in terms of biological determinism or essentialism cultural or social constructionism and masculinity as a discourse of power. The uses of masculinity are examined in the context of power and patriarchy; production and social reproduction; poverty; governance; violence and conflict; health; and workplace and organizations. Thinking about masculinities and mens role in working towards gender equality is relatively new in the development field. Therefore continued efforts should be made to publicize and advocate for the importance of mens responsibilities and roles in work towards gender equality in the international fora local and national policy debates and development programming. It is believed that making masculinities visible and men more conscious of gender as it affects their lives and those of women is a first step towards challenging gender inequalities.
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Amid a rising tide of misogyny and gender violence across the world, terms like “patriarchal backlash” have increased in use to describe similar trends in different settings. Yet, backlash remains contested as a concept, variably... more
Amid a rising tide of misogyny and gender violence across the world, terms like “patriarchal backlash” have increased in use to describe similar trends in different settings. Yet, backlash remains contested as a concept, variably perceived as an expression of male resistance, a patriarchal restoration, or a mode through which a broader reactionary politics play out and coalesce. Recognizing that the predominance of recent academic literature on backlash centers on Europe and the Americas, we explore a broader set of debates, questioning how we can better understand backlash in a global context. We argue that backlash can be framed as a form of crisis management, as a confluence of crises—political, economic, climate, and pandemic—that create volatility in hierarchical social relations, threatening the reproduction of elite rule and capitalist growth. “Governments dream of docile, domesticated, and privatized lives,” Françoise Vergès reminds us, and patriarchal backlash serves to reimpose order through a series of spatial fixes in the individual space of the sexed body, the privatized space of the traditional family, and the bordered, ordered space of the ethnically imagined nation. Amid a felt sense of crisis and ensuing ontological insecurity, hierarchies are fixed in place through appeals to a naturalized gender order, itself structured by racialized, neocolonial relations of power operating within and across national borders. As sites of struggle over discursive meaning and material resources, the body, family, and nation are critical spaces in which to counter backlash and its fixing of hierarchies.
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The multiplicity of crises that mark the contemporary era, the polycrisis, also constitutes a crisis of hegemony. This article explores the functions of gendered racialisation in elite management of this hegemonic crisis, with reference... more
The multiplicity of crises that mark the contemporary era, the polycrisis, also constitutes a crisis of hegemony. This article explores the functions of gendered racialisation in elite management of this hegemonic crisis, with reference to Gramsci’s use of the figure of the Centaur, a hybrid of humanity and animality. It discusses the ways in which this hybrid evokes racialising tropes of human bestiality to express the dynamic interplay of consent and coercion through which hegemony is maintained. Moral panics in relation to the threat of the racialised male Other, variously figured as migrant, terrorist and/or criminal, draw on a bestialised humanisation of racialised masculinities in order to elicit consent to the exercise of coercive authority. Such authority in turn invokes a plasticity of excess/deficiency of the racialised male Other to sanction exclusionary and exterminatory violence. To seize the political opportunity of the current moment to reimagine gender justice and social justice together requires a deeper engagement with the deployment of racialised masculinities in securing consent to coercive authority amid the deepening polycrisis.
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Nearly three decades ago the UN World Conference on Women at Beijing appeared to be uniting the international community around the most progressive platform for women’s rights in history. Instead of steady advancement, we have seen uneven... more
Nearly three decades ago the UN World Conference on Women at Beijing appeared to be uniting the international community around the most progressive platform for women’s rights in history. Instead of steady advancement, we have seen uneven progress, backsliding, co-option, and a recent rising tide of patriarchal backlash. The global phenomenon of ‘backlash’ is characterised by resurgent misogyny, homo/transphobia, and attacks on sexual and reproductive rights. It is articulated through new forms of patriarchal politics associated with racialised hyper-nationalist agendas, traditionalism, authoritarianism, and alterations to civic space that have become all too familiar both in the global North and South. A wide range of actors and articulations are involved and influenced by underlying drivers and dynamics. A clearer view of the patriarchal nature of current backlash is a prerequisite for building a cohesive movement to counter it, strategically engaging researchers, activists, polic...
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It is time for a critical assessment of the “men for gender equality” field and for a reorientation of its practices and approaches. This report takes stock of this work and proposes new directions for programming and policy on men and... more
It is time for a critical assessment of the “men for gender equality” field and for a reorientation of its practices and approaches. This report takes stock of this work and proposes new directions for programming and policy on men and boys. Work with men and boys remains too focused on individual men’s identities, attitudes and behaviors, rather than a more transformative attention to the structures and systems that sustain gender inequalities. It has relied on taken-for-granted understandings of the category “men”, social psychological accounts of gender norms, and organisational forms that have limited its ability to contribute to intersectional feminist mobilizations. Work with men and boys must focus on the gendered operations of power and injustice, press for political and policy change, focus more on anti-patriarchal social action, and reorient evidence-based practice toward social change
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My creative practice addresses two research questions: how does ubiquitous computation affect the visual operations of the contemporary control society and what does this mean for the use of visual media in contesting such control?... more
My creative practice addresses two research questions: how does ubiquitous computation affect the visual operations of the contemporary control society and what does this mean for the use of visual media in contesting such control? Through photographic and video work in digital formats, I explore the movements and arrests of informatic flows that constitute the operation of control, and the potential for resistance that may be felt in the turbulence of the interface, as a dynamic threshold where such flows meet. In this turn to the interface, I theorise the impacts of computationality on the loss of the image as a stable site of representational resistance, with the unsettling of perspectival representation in the topology of informational space and the ambiguity of a digital visuality whose software hides as it shows. When brought together with recent work on the de-materialisation wrought by informational Capital, the digital image comes to be seen as an instantiation of anxiety a...
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A surgical instrument includes a conduit, the conduit having a conduit axis defined through a terminal end thereof, and a fluid-powered motor for rotating a dissecting tool, the motor having a longitudinal motor axis. A swivel member is... more
A surgical instrument includes a conduit, the conduit having a conduit axis defined through a terminal end thereof, and a fluid-powered motor for rotating a dissecting tool, the motor having a longitudinal motor axis. A swivel member is connected in fluid communication between the motor and the conduit. The swivel member comprises a motor portion including a motor face inclined at a selected angle from the motor axis, and a conduit portion including a conduit face arranged oppositely that of the motor face and formed to engage matingly with the motor face. A connection shaft extends from one of the motor face and the conduit face and is engaged rotatably with a connection receptacle formed in another of the motor face and the conduit face. The swivel member is provided so that the motor is rotatable relative to the conduit from an aligned position, wherein the motor axis generally is aligned with the conduit axis, to an angularly displaced position, wherein the motor axis intersects...
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This paper discusses the role of men in redressing gender inequalities by exploring the meanings and uses of masculinity. Discussions on masculinity provide a place in which mens involvement in producing and challenging inequalities and... more
This paper discusses the role of men in redressing gender inequalities by exploring the meanings and uses of masculinity. Discussions on masculinity provide a place in which mens involvement in producing and challenging inequalities and inequities in gender and other social relations can be investigated. In this paper masculinity is defined in terms of biological determinism or essentialism cultural or social constructionism and masculinity as a discourse of power. The uses of masculinity are examined in the context of power and patriarchy; production and social reproduction; poverty; governance; violence and conflict; health; and workplace and organizations. Thinking about masculinities and mens role in working towards gender equality is relatively new in the development field. Therefore continued efforts should be made to publicize and advocate for the importance of mens responsibilities and roles in work towards gender equality in the international fora local and national policy debates and development programming. It is believed that making masculinities visible and men more conscious of gender as it affects their lives and those of women is a first step towards challenging gender inequalities.
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This volume and the broader EMERGE project have been made possible through support from DFID, under the
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Work with men has demonstrated signifi cant potential in contributing to building gender equality and improving the health of women and men. However, most work with men has tended to be local in scale and limited in scope. To be more... more
Work with men has demonstrated signifi cant potential in contributing to building gender equality and improving the health of women and men. However, most work with men has tended to be local in scale and limited in scope. To be more widely effective – that is to transform the pervasive gender inequalities that characterize many societies globally – efforts to transform men's behaviour need to be significantly scaled up. Policy processes and mechanisms are key elements in any effort to engage men and boys in achieving gender equality.
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Research Interests: Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism, Masculinities, White Supremacy, Radical Right, Ethnonationalism, and 14 morePatriarchy, Nativism, Far right politics, Far Right, Radical Right-wing Populist Parties, Extreme and Far Right, Sex/gender binaries, Radical Rightwing Populism, Anti feminism, Alt-Right & New Right, Alt-Right, The Manosphere, Alt-Right Politics, and Male Supremacy
This paper discusses the process and progress of the Men and Masculinities stream of work within the Gender, Power and Sexuality (GPS) programme, supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). In relation to... more
This paper discusses the process and progress of the Men and Masculinities stream of work within the Gender, Power and Sexuality (GPS) programme, supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). In relation to the overarching programme’s emphasis on linking local voices to global arenas to influence policy discourses on gender justice and sexual rights, the paper reviews the contribution made by engagements with the Men and Masculinities field and reflects on challenges faced and lessons learned.
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It is time for a critical assessment of the “men for gender equality” field and for a reorientation of its practices and approaches. This report takes stock of this work and proposes new directions for programming and policy on men and... more
It is time for a critical assessment of the “men for gender equality” field and for a reorientation of its practices and approaches. This report takes stock of this work and proposes new directions for programming and policy on men and boys. Work with men and boys remains too focused on individual men’s identities, attitudes and behaviors, rather than a more transformative attention to the structures and systems that sustain gender inequalities. It has relied on taken-for-granted understandings of the category “men”, social psychological accounts of gender norms, and organisational forms that have limited its ability to contribute to intersectional feminist mobilizations. Work with men and boys must focus on the gendered operations of power and injustice, press for political and policy change, focus more on anti-patriarchal social action, and reorient evidence-based practice toward social change.
It is time for a critical assessment of the “men for gender equality” field and for a reorientation of its practices and approaches. This report takes stock of this work and proposes new directions for programming and policy on men and... more
It is time for a critical assessment of the “men for gender equality” field and for a reorientation of its practices and approaches. This report takes stock of this work and proposes new directions for programming and policy on men and boys. Work with men and boys remains too focused on individual men’s identities, attitudes and behaviors, rather than a more transformative attention to the structures and systems that sustain gender inequalities. It has relied on taken-for-granted understandings of the category “men”, social psychological accounts of gender norms, and organisational forms that have limited its ability to contribute to intersectional feminist mobilizations. Work with men and boys must focus on the gendered operations of power and injustice, press for political and policy change, focus more on anti-patriarchal social action, and reorient evidence-based practice toward social change.
Данный обзор основан на более широком исследовании (Edström et al. 2019), охватывающем также Египет, Казахстан и Турцию и посвященном тому, как переходный период в экономике воспринимается в разных странах различными группами мужчин и как... more
Данный обзор основан на более широком исследовании (Edström et al. 2019), охватывающем также Египет, Казахстан и Турцию и посвященном тому, как переходный период в экономике воспринимается в разных странах различными группами мужчин и как он отражается на гендерных отношениях. Исследование призвано помочь Европейскому банку реконструкции и развития (ЕБРР) и другим заинтересованным сторонам в анализе возможных способов вовлечения мужчин наряду с женщинами в качестве движущей силы положительных сдвигов в вопросах гендерного равенства, а также в качестве дополнительного фактора поддержки проектов и инвестиций, направленных на женщин, способного повысить эффективность трансформации и содействовать созданию равных возможностей.
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The rise of far-right parties in many parts of the world threatens the work of human rights and social justice NGOs. That far-right messaging and movements are polarizing political debates is clear; there is less clarity about the... more
The rise of far-right parties in many parts of the world threatens the work of human rights and social justice NGOs. That far-right messaging and movements are polarizing political debates is clear; there is less clarity about the affective appeals and cognitive frames deployed to engineer this polarization. This report was commissioned to examine the ways in which varying narratives and tropes of masculinity and femininity have both shaped and been used by the far-right in its mobilization of support and polarization of debate. It follows the academic literature in identifying ethnonationalism as the unifying ideology of a heterogeneous political tendency that can be collectively referred to as the “far- right”. The use of the descriptor “far-right” also serves to designate those parties and formations which have engineered the entry of extremism into the mainstream, by rejecting both the traditional center-right establishment in politics and the violent extremism of openly anti-democratic groups and individuals. The nativism and authoritarianism of the far-right should be regarded as a “pathological normalcy” and a “radicalisation of mainstream values.” The analyses and recommendations presented in this report are based on a review of the available anglophone literature on the far-right, as referred to above. This was supplemented with a review of recent documentation of Oxfam’s work on gender justice and its programming with men and boys in particular, and key informant interviews with Oxfam staff involved with gender programming to identify their concerns about the rise of the far-right, and what this might mean for Oxfam’s work on issues of masculinities.
Research Interests: Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism, Masculinities, White Supremacy, Radical Right, Ethnonationalism, and 15 morePatriarchy, Nativism, Anti-feminism, Far Right, Far-Right Politics, Radical Right-wing Populist Parties, Extreme and Far Right, Far-right parties in Europe, Sex/gender binaries, Radical Rightwing Populism, Alt-Right & New Right, Alt-Right, The Manosphere, Alt-Right Politics, and Male Supremacy
Deep-rooted patriarchal systems uphold gender and class-based inequalities in Bangladesh, within which the issue of land distribution and use remains integral to the transformation of poverty for a large number of women and men. Nijera... more
Deep-rooted patriarchal systems uphold gender and class-based inequalities in Bangladesh, within which the issue of land distribution and use remains integral to the transformation of poverty for a large number of women and men. Nijera Kori is a national social movement organising landless people to claim their rights and challenge the discrimination that constrains their agency and development. Through qualitative research, backed up by an extensive secondary literature, this study explores how and why men and women are working together for the gender equality objectives of this movement, and how these relate to wider economic justice goals. Across two sites in Northern Bangladesh the qualitative research engaged men and women from landless groups, Nijera Kori staff, and stakeholder groups.
The data indicates that by working to raise the consciousness of, and bridge relationships between men and women, Nijera Kori’s approach reflects differential entry points for analysing gendered power and the importance of synchronising work between men and women for gender equality. Furthermore, a commitment to democratic practice in the movement helps realise shared commitments to gender equity. This approach has enabled men and women to address women’s rights issues, tackle corruption in public service provision and claim land rights. Domains for change reach family and community, breaking down barriers to women’s participation in public life. At the household level the redistribution of caring roles among men and women has emerged and the community collective agreements on dowry and early marriage suggests a degree of normative change. This report makes recommendations that men and women’s shared claims for interpersonal and political accountability through collective action are critical in enabling gender equitable pathways for economic justice.
The data indicates that by working to raise the consciousness of, and bridge relationships between men and women, Nijera Kori’s approach reflects differential entry points for analysing gendered power and the importance of synchronising work between men and women for gender equality. Furthermore, a commitment to democratic practice in the movement helps realise shared commitments to gender equity. This approach has enabled men and women to address women’s rights issues, tackle corruption in public service provision and claim land rights. Domains for change reach family and community, breaking down barriers to women’s participation in public life. At the household level the redistribution of caring roles among men and women has emerged and the community collective agreements on dowry and early marriage suggests a degree of normative change. This report makes recommendations that men and women’s shared claims for interpersonal and political accountability through collective action are critical in enabling gender equitable pathways for economic justice.