This volume explores the theorization of transnational men in a global context, considering whether the experiences of men in relation to the economy, gendered expectations, politics and technologies contribute to the reimagination of local patterns of masculinity and femininity, or lead to reaffirmations of prescriptive gender roles.
Garth Stahl is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of Self-Made Men: Widening Participation, Selfhood and First-in-family Males; Working-Class Masculinities in Australian Higher Education; Ethnography of a Neoliberal School: Building Cultures of Success and Identity; and Neoliberalism and Aspiration: Educating White Working-Class Boys.
Yang Zhao is a doctoral candidate in anthropology in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, Australia. Based on 13 months of fieldwork in Uzbekistan, his doctoral project investigates how young Uzbek men perceive and practise everyday masculinities in relation to family, religion and state. He has published several peer-reviewed articles on Uzbek masculinities, digital ethnography and HIV education.