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Feminist political economies of care: Young people, masculinities and de-industrialisation in a former shipbuilding community

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Anoop NayakORCiD

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© The Author(s) 2024. The paper explores how ideas of masculinity are currently configured in a former shipbuilding community. Derived from ethnographic research with 120 young people from three schools, the study makes a critical intervention into gender and work through a focus on masculinities and economies of caregiving. The paper contributes to emerging work on gender, work and care in four ways. First, highlighting a contingent relationship between local political economy, place and the production of masculinities. Second, demonstrating how the inclusion of young people’s perspectives and experiences of male caregiving extends existing feminist care geographies. Third, by exploring how care is gendered, ‘regendered’ and ‘degendered’ in young people’s accounts, prising open possibilities for ‘undoing’ patriarchal masculinities and reworking the gender order. Finally, it is argued that such practices may inspire new economic ontologies of care, pluralise masculinity and enhance the transformation of gender relations at local and global scales.

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Author(s): Nayak A

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Environment and Planning A

Year: 2024

Volume: 56

Issue: 6

Pages: 1632-1650

Online publication date: 17/02/2024

Acceptance date: 02/04/2018

Date deposited: 05/03/2024

ISSN (print): 0308-518X

ISSN (electronic): 1472-3409

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X241226888

DOI: 10.1177/0308518X241226888

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