Indonesian Islamic Masculinities
The broad aim of this project is to develop an ethnographic understanding of the way Indonesian (adult) men re-configure their conceptions and practices of masculinity within contemporary Australian society and against the anglo-Australian hegemonic model of masculinity following immigration. This knowledge will then be used to understand both Islam and masculinities in a way that will inform social policy on men and masculinities in areas such as, religion, family, sexuality, leisure and work. The importance of this research to future masculinities studies is that it will contribute to: (i) thinking gender relations on the world scale; (ii) addressing issues of “public” concern; (iii) developing a more explicit understanding of the process of change (or ossification) in masculinities and; (iv) to explore the ‘patriarchal dividend' as a feature of masculinities politics.
This project has currently produce a paper presented at the Moving Masculinities Conference held at ANU in December 2005 and is currently being developed into an ARC Discovery Grant application.
Project Coordinators: Mike Donaldson and Richard Howson |
