Six-Year Birthday Post (+ calls & reading)

Wow, the blog is already six years old today. It's been 128 posts since Jan 4, 2016, and the blog still somehow gets hits from readers all over the globe. I haven't posted at all regularly for a long while, but hopefully the regular readers as well as those of you who find the the …

New Publications!

I've been pretty silent on the blog front but I hope all the blog readers' summers have gone well. Mine was OK; I took July off from teaching and visited some local (Finnish) rock climbing crags and just chillaxed. Just a mash-up of pics from Olhava, the premier rock climbing venue in Finland. Now, the …

YouTube recording available of recent online symposium

Dear blog readers, here's a follow-up on the last post on the international gender and environment symposium I wrote about. I would like to share the recording of the online discussion in case it is of interest. Here's a YouTube link to the full recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2ERP-77ddU&feature=youtu.be I speak briefly at a couple of junctures but …

Run on to Join a Big International Online Symposium on Gender and Environment!

Just a quick plug for potential interested readers: I'm attending and chairing a session at a big upcoming international symposium, the book launch of the upcoming ecological masculinities anthology Men, Masculinities, and Earth: Contending with the (m)Anthropocene, hosted by the MenEngage Ubuntu Symposium on the 25th of February. More info in the pic below. I'm …

New Publication: Book Review of Ecological Masculinities

Good news on the publication front! My book review of Martin Hultman and Paul Pulé's groundbreaking new book, Ecological Masculinities, is now published online at Men and Masculinities, the number one international journal on critical studies on men and masculinities. Screenshot below. I don't yet know in what paper issue of the journal the review …

Trip Report: Ecological Masculinities and Mountains

I'm back from a very fun and successful trip to neighboring Sweden and Norway. The trip was in two parts: first, a seminar and discussions in Gothenburg on ecological masculinities, and then a solo trip skiing in the mountains of Norway. First, the professional part of the trip: The seminar was jointly arranged by the …

Book Plug! Ecological Masculinities!

Ha, I couldn't resist taking a short fun break from article writing for a quick plug of this recent book that not only directly speaks to my own research but also mentions that research in a blushingly positive way: Ecological Masculinities by Martin Hultman and Paul Pulé: Credit: Routledge. I haven't got my hands physically …