Ageing masculinities and the nation: disrupting boundaries of sexualities, mobilities and identities. Issue 6 (2nd June 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Christou, Anastasia
• Is Part Of: Gender, place and culture. Volume 23:Issue 6(2016)
• Page Start: 801
• Page End: 816
• Publication Date: 2016-06-02
• Subjects: ageing masculinities -- return migrants -- sexuality -- identity -- home -- hegemony; masculinidades que envejecen -- inmigrantes repatriados -- sexualidad -- identidad -- hogar -- hegemonía; 老化的男性气概 -- 返乡移民 -- 性 -- 认同 -- 家庭 -- 霸权; Human geography -- Periodicals; Feminism -- Periodicals; Géographie féministe -- Périodiques; 305.305
• DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2015.1058760
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0966-369X

Abstract

Abstract : This article draws from a large-scale comparative project to focus on 'ageing masculinities' of second-generation Greek-American returnee migrants. In deconstructing multiple hegemonies (ethnicity, nation, patriarchy), the article explores how narratives of longing, belonging, family and kinship, as both experiential and storied accounts of self-imaging, become entangled through migration with social and personal his/stories, childhood upbringings and life-course stages. The analysis aims to explore the tensions and dynamics between structural, individual and cultural factors with respect to masculinities, and to elaborate on the contextualisation of masculinities in specific relational settings in later life. It is suggested that theoretical insights gained from a hermeneutical phenomenological analysis that is attentive to both the emotional/affective and gendered meanings of being and self-identity are important in empirically grounded studies of gender and migration. Such an analytical lens allows issues of masculinity and hegemony to be addressed and contributes to understanding transnational accounts of gendered power relations.