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:
Prof Lucy Delap - Exploring the History of Feminism and Men’s Engagement with It
Dan Guinness (Beyond Equality) - Working with Men and Boys for Gender Equality
Gary Barker (Equimundo) - Promoting Nurturing, Non-Violent Masculinity in Times of Political Upheaval
Sandy Ruxton and Stephen Burrell Talking to Yaz Brien - Now and Men: One Year On
Dr Jade Levell - Boys, Domestic Abuse and Gang Involvement: Eliciting Men’s Stories Through Music
Sebastián Molano (Oxfam America) – Men at Work, Men at Home: Advancing Feminist Social Change
Dan Boyden (Safe Ground) - Reimagining Masculinities in the Prison System
Dr Stacey Pope - Building Gender Equality in Football
Sé Franklin - Older Men, Masculinities in Ireland, and ‘Inner Work’
Luis Lineo - Masculinity, the War in Ukraine, and Refugees: Swedish Responses
Prof Nicole Westmarland - Men’s Activism to End Violence Against Women and Girls
Prof Raewyn Connell - Making Sense of Men and Masculinities in the 21st Century
Prof Paul Higate - Militarism and Military Masculinities: Why Do They Matter?
Prof Jason Arday - Being Young, Black and Male: Challenging the Dominant Discourse
Olivia Dickinson - Let Toys Be Toys: Gender Stereotypes and Boys
Prof Bob Pease - Masculinities, Climate Change, and Men’s Relationships with Nature
Peter Baker - Improving Men's Health and Wellbeing
Men Marching Against Violence Against Women
Dr Fiona Vera-Gray - Men’s Violence against Women, Street Harassment, and Pornography
Owen Thomas - Working with Marginalised Young Men
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