Towards Broader Understandings of Violence: Challenges for Men and Masculinities -  Presented by Professor Jeff Hearn

Join us online to hear Professor Jeff Hearn (Hanken School of Economics, Finland) discuss how work and studies on men, masculinities and violence have developed over recent times. 

In this session, Professor Hearn will discuss how work and studies on men, masculinities and violence have developed over recent times. Two particular examples are presented. The first concerns how digital gender-sexual violations, such as image-based sexual abuse, upskirting, online abuse of girls and women often not known IRL, compound immediate physical abuse. The second concern moves towards broader understandings of different kinds of violence, both theoretically and empirically across and between societies, for example, through the open-ended concept of violence regimes. In both cases, urgent questions are posed for how to think differently about men’s violences, including moving beyond narrow definitions of perpetrators and ways of doing ‘men’s work’, and looking towards broader responses to men, masculinities and (anti-)violence. 

About the Speaker

Jeff Hearn has worked on various approaches to violence for over 40 years, including on men’s violence against women and children, sexual harassment, violence in organisations, sex trade, wounding, digital violations, war, and violence regimes. He is Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor, Human Geography, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK; honorary doctor, Social Sciences, Lund University, Sweden; and UK Academician in the Social Sciences. He was formerly Professor, Gender Studies, Linköping University, and Senior Professor, Gender Studies, Örebro University, both Sweden. His books include: Taking Child Abuse Seriously (1990), Children, Child Abuse and Child Protection (1999, both Violence Against Children Study Group); The Violences of Men (1998); Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations (2001); Sex, Violence and the Body (2008); Revenge Pornography (2017); Knowledge, Power and Young Sexualities (2022); Digital Gender-Sexual Violations (2023). Policy reports on violence include those for EU, Council of Europe, SIDA, Sexual Violence Research Initiative, along with long involvement in profeminist activism. He is current part of the EU project UniSAFE on gender-based violence in higher education.