Jeff Hearn

Transnational and Global

Having a background in Geography, especially European and Southern African geographies, and then Urban and Regional Planning, spatial issues have always been fundamental. But often this has been translated into what can be broadly called social space, as with thinking about organisations as sites of social space or social boundaries as between metaphorical spaces. Then, around the mid-1990s I was drawn back into more explicitly geographical, but still social, space. This came from various directions – moving from the UK to Finland, and so rethinking the nation, national geographies/histories; getting involved in various EU projects, especially in collaboration with Keith Pringle, Ursula Müller, and Elżbieta Oleksy; developing important relations with South African scholars, including Floretta Boonzaier, Robert Morrell, Kopano Ratele, Tamara Shefer; and working with colleagues via GEXcel Centre of Excellence in Linköping and Örebro, notably Marina Blagojević Hughson, as in the books, Rethinking Transnational Men and Unsustainable Institutions of Men; and more generally studying transnational relations and processes, whether in business, migration or digitalisation. Some of this work was brought together in the book, Men of the World. Most recently, I have been working with Kadri Aavik, Martin Hultman and Tamara Shefer co-editing a double special issue of NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies on men, masculinities and the planet at the end of the (m)Anthropocene, and with Sofia Aboim and Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila co-editing the book, Men and Masculinities at the Margins.

Selected Works

  1. ‘Deconstructing the dominant: making the one(s) the other(s)’, Organization: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory and Society, Vol. 3(4), 1996, pp. 611-626. Link
  2. ‘Tracking ‘the transnational’: Studying transnational organizations and managements, and the management of cohesion’, Culture and Organization, Vol. 10(4), 2004, pp. 273-290. Link
  3. ‘Autobiography, nation, postcolonialism and gender: reflecting on men in England, Finland and Ireland’, Irish Journal of Sociology, Vol. 14 (2), 2005, pp. 66-93. Link
  4. ‘”Women home and away”: Transnational managerial work and gender relations’, with Marjut Jyrkinen, Rebecca Piekkari and Eeva Oinonen, The Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 83(1), 2008, pp. 41-54. Link
  5. ‘From patriarchy to transpatriarchies’, in Jeff Hearn Men of the World: Genders, Globalizations, Transnational Times. Sage, London, 2015, pp. 197-222. Link
  6. ‘Looking at men and masculinities through ICTs, … and vice versa’, with Matthew Hall, in Ute Kempf and Birgitta Wrede (eds.), Gender-Effekte: Wie Frauen die Technik von morgen gestalten [Gender Effects: How Women create Technology of Tomorrow], Forschungsreihe des IZG, Bielefeld, Band 19, 2017, pp. 61-72. ISBN 9783932869198. Link
  7. ‘Top men in transnational companies: The construction of men, masculinities, and work-family intersections within “gender-neutral” contexts’, with M. Jyrkinen, M. Karjalainen, C. Niemistö, and R. Piekkari, in H. Peterson (ed.) Gender in Transnational Knowledge Companies, Springer, Berlin, 2017, pp. 99-118. Link
  8. ‘The case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies’, with Annika Bergman-Rosamond, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Mo Hamza, Vasna Ramasar and Helle Rydström, Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, Vol. 12(3-4), 2022, pp. 465–486. Link
  9. ‘The individual researcher and transnational society: The transnationalisation of individuals, and/or the individualisation of the transnational’, in Sanja Ćopić and Zorana Antonijević (eds.) Feminizam, Aktivizam, Politike: Proizvodnja Znanja na Poluperiferiji: Zbornik Radova u čast Marine Blagojević Hughson [Feminism, Activism, Politics: Production of Knowledge in the Semiperiphery: Proceedings in Honor of Marina Blagojević Hughson], Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade, 2021, pp. 33-55. Link
  10. ‘Materialism, new materialism and critical studies on men and masculinities (CSMM): Looking back and looking forward, relationally’, in Ulf Mellström and Bob Pease (eds.), Posthumanism and the Man Question: Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities, Routledge, London, 2023, pp. 154-168. Link
  11. 11. ‘Book symposium: Men, masculinities and Southern urbanism’, with Romit Chowdhury, Jordanna Matlon, Kopano Ratele, Shannon Philip, and Mario Schmidt, Gender, Place & Culture, 2025. Link
  12. ‘Men, masculinities, and the planet at the end of (M)Anthropocene: ecological/social/economic/political relations, processes and consequences’, with Kadri Aavik, Martin Hultman and Tamara Shefer, NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies, 2026. Link 1 | Link 2