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Transforming Patriarchal Masculinities: Learning from Practice

In 2021, an internal review recommended that UN Women’s gender equality work with men and boys shift from a “male engagement” framework to one focused on transforming patriarchal masculinities, explicitly addressing patriarchy and its various forms of violence. The Transforming Patriarchal Masculinities (TPM) framework calls for a transformative approach, requiring deep, lasting changes not only […]

January 1, 2025

Alan Greig

GBV, masculinities, practice, prevention, violence

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Work with Men and Boys for Gender Equality

Co-authored with Michael Flood Any assessment of the evidence for gender transformative work with men and boys should consider the conditions that have shaped the emergence of this work. Male-focused gender transformative work has a history, or rather histories. Reviewing its evidence base in light of the forces and factors which have informed its emergence […]

January 1, 2025

Alan Greig

accountability, masculinities, norms, patriarchy, violence

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Men, Masculinities & Armed Conflict

Research tells us that socially constructed gender norms which associate masculinity with power, violence and control, play an important role in driving conflict and insecurity. Many men across the world oppose these rigid, inequitable and violence-endorsing norms, and work in solidarity with women and those beyond the gender binary to resist them, although in many […]

January 1, 2025

Alan Greig

conflict, masculinities, militarism, patriarchy, peace, war

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Patriarchal (Dis)orders: Backlash as Crisis Management

Co-authored with Jerker Edström and Chloe Skinner 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 […]

January 1, 2025

Alan Greig

backlash, body, crisis, family values, masculinities, nation, patriarchy, polycrisis

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The Polycrisis and the Centaur: Hegemony, Masculinity and Racialisation

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 […]

January 1, 2025

Alan Greig

bestiality, hegemony, masculinities, plasticity, polycrisis, racialisation

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Masculinities and the Rise of the Far-Right

The rise of far-right parties in many parts of the world threatens the work of human rights and social justice NGOs. In 2016, Oxfam first analyzed the electoral ascendancy of far-right populist political parties, and the charismatic leaders representing far-right movements. This analysis concluded that civil society organizations working on human rights and social justice […]

January 5, 2020

Alan Greig

ethnonationalism, far-right, gender binary, male supremacy, patriarchy, racism, white supremacy

policy

about

I work for social change, as a writer, trainer, photographer and video-maker. My work focuses on issues of gender justice and social oppression, personal and political violence, and processes of individual and institutional change. For over 20 years as an independent consultant, I have supported organizations and activist formations in countries of the global south […]

January 17, 2017

Alan Greig

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We Do It Ourselves

Co-authored with Thea Shahrokh and Sushmita Preetha 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 […]

August 18, 2015

Alan Greig

accountability, activism, justice, land rights, masculinity, patriarchy, social movement, violence

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Challenging Male Supremacy in Practice

Co-authored with Gaurav Jashnani and RJ Maccani, in “Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality”, Michael Flood and Richard Howson (eds), Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne (2016) In her contribution to last year’s Kilburn Manifesto (Rustin 2013), an online statement in twelve monthly instalments about the nature of the neoliberal system which now dominates most […]

June 1, 2015

Alan Greig

capitalism, masculinity, patriarchy, racism, somatics, transformative justice

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From Dakar to Delhi

Co-authored with Thea Shahrokh and Jerker Edström 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 […]

March 1, 2015

Alan Greig

development, feminism, gender, masculinity, norms, patriarchy

policy

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