What is 'discomfort', and how can we engage effectively with men when they display it in conversations about masculinity, gender equality and violence? How can connecting with discomfort help to change harmful attitudes and behaviours? What are the risks and challenges in embracing discomfort, and how can they be dealt with? These issues are at the core of our discussion with Dr Nate Eisenstadt, drawing on his extensive experience of facilitating and researching bystander intervention and domestic violence perpetrator programmes in the UK.
We also explore the training room as a microcosm of wider society, and how discomfort and fear are often weaponised by public figures to promote damaging, polarising responses to complex real-world problems. Drawing on his earlier research on contemporary anarchist practices, Nate reflects on the challenges and potential of community-based transformative (as opposed to punitive) approaches to ending gender-based violence.
Nate is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol in the UK, in their Medical School’s Domestic Violence and Health Group, and the Co-Director of Kindling Interventions, which delivers bystander leadership programmes for violence prevention, equality and diversity.
We cover the following topics:
Further reading:
Men in Politics as Agents of Gender Equitable Change - Dr Ján Michalko (ALiGN)
Conflict, Peace-Building and Hope: Taking Boys Seriously in Northern Ireland - Dr Ken Harland
Trauma, Loss, and Healing from Gun Violence for Young Black Men in the US – Dr Jocelyn Smith Lee
Masculinity, Meat-Eating, and Vegan Men - Dr Kadri Aavik Revisited
Masculinity and Memoir - Blake Morrison on Family Life
Why Feminism is Good for Men - Jens van Tricht (Emancipator)
The Art and Craft of Masculinity - Richard Bliss
Angela Saini - Patriarchy and the Roots of Gendered Oppression
Hilario Sáez Méndez - 'We Are All Rubiales': How Should Men Respond to Spain's World Cup Victory?
Dr Lisa Sugiura – Incels and the Manosphere: Realities and Responses
Prof Michael Flood - Engaging Men and Boys: Theory and Evidence
Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond
Dr Kadri Aavik - Masculinity, Meat-Eating, and Vegan Men
Prof Jonathan Scourfield - Suicide, Social Work, and Masculinities
Jackson Katz - Democracy, Authoritarianism and Violence: The Politics of Masculinity in the United States
Andrea Simon (End Violence Against Women Coalition) - Tackling Misogyny and Abuse in the Police and Beyond
Dr Katarzyna Wojnicka - Men, Migration and Masculinities in Europe
Dr Demet Aslı Çaltekin - Refusing Militarism: Conscientious Objectors and Masculinity in Turkey
Prof Lucy Delap - Exploring the History of Feminism and Men’s Engagement with It
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