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Recent work in social science challenges managerial assumptions about homogenous knowledge domains, and traces the effects of a world economy of knowledge structured by the history of colonialism and current north-south global inequalities. The differentiation of knowledge rests on the very different histories and situations of metropolitan, creole, colonized and post-colonial intelligentsias. Different knowledge projects have been constructed in global space, which feed back on our understanding of knowledge itself. Less recognized, but increasingly important, are uses of southern and postcolonial perspectives in applied social science, in areas ranging from education to urban planning. Some implications of these applications are discussed: southern theory is not a fixed set of propositions but a challenge to develop new knowledge projects and new ways of learning with globally expanded resources.

A pesquisa sobre masculinidade atualmente é mundial, oferecendo-nos ricas bases para o entendimento desse tema em arenas globais. O tema da globalização tem, cada vez mais, entrado em foco nos estudos de gênero, e especificamente na pesquisa sobre masculinidade. Este trabalho mostra a utilidade de uma aproximação de história de vida para se entender gênero, baseada essencialmente na psicanálise, embora modificada para utilização em trabalho de campo sócio-científico. Apresenta-se um estudo de caso que representa a contribuição australiana para um estudo realizado em vários países, compreendendo a masculinidade corporativa. Diz respeito a um administrador de meia idade na indústria de construção, que revela uma forma conservadora de masculinidade hegemônica. Isso foi gerado em sua família de origem, em sua educação e na indústria de construção que é pesadamente masculinizada. Seu processo de trabalho administrativo é uma espécie de bricolagem de negociações e relacionamentos que são mais locais e concretos do que abstratos e globalizados. Esse padrão de masculinidade se articula com a economia global, mas não reproduz exatamente a masculinidade hegemônica das corporações transnacionais, que são, por contraste, caracterizadas por altos níveis de escolaridade e envolvimento tecnológico. Dois locais de contradição estão presentes na vida desse administrador: sua corporalidade e suas relações familiares, o que pode causar problemas para uma condução sem percalços de sua vida. Na entrevista há também um curioso momento de utopia, que coloca em questão seu projeto de gênero.

The development of research on masculinity since the 1980s hasproduced rich evidence of the diversity of masculinities. This is now anestablished research field and has had many practical applications. Ithas not yet fully absorbed the wealth of ideas and debates aboutmasculinities and social change that come from the colonized and postcolonial world. Power has always been an important issue in understanding masculinities, and we now need to think about powerstructures on a world scale. Research on neoliberal globalization, onHIV/AIDS, and on elite masculinities, are significant sites for this work.The concept of hegemonic masculinity is still useful, but it should notbe equated with violence. We need to pay attention to incoherences in gender relations, and the politics of gendered institutions, in thinkingabout inequality and change.

The development of research on masculinity since the 1980s hasproduced rich evidence of the diversity of masculinities. This is now anestablished research field and has had many practical applications. Ithas not yet fully absorbed the wealth of ideas and debates aboutmasculinities and social change that come from the colonized and postcolonialworld. Power has always been an important issue inunderstanding masculinities, and we now need to think about powerstructures on a world scale. Research on neoliberal globalization, onHIV/AIDS, and on elite masculinities, are significant sites for this work.The concept of hegemonic masculinity is still useful, but it should notbe equated with violence. We need to pay attention to incoherences ingender relations, and the politics of gendered institutions, in thinkingabout inequality and change. ; The development of research on masculinity since the 1980s hasproduced rich evidence of the diversity of masculinities. This is now anestablished research field and has had many practical applications. Ithas not yet fully absorbed the wealth of ideas and debates aboutmasculinities and social change that come from the colonized and postcolonial world. Power has always been an important issue in understanding masculinities, and we now need to think about powerstructures on a world scale. Research on neoliberal globalization, onHIV/AIDS, and on elite masculinities, are significant sites for this work.The concept of hegemonic masculinity is still useful, but it should notbe equated with violence. We need to pay attention to incoherences in gender relations, and the politics of gendered institutions, in thinkingabout inequality and change.

The familiar idea of conflict between intellectuals and the holders of power is called into question in neoliberal global capitalism. A life-history study of a small group of public and private sector managers in Australia documents a labor process that is to a significant extent about data and ideas but is conducted under conditions that make reflective intellectual work unlikely. The tension is resolved in a technologically mediated collective labor process of management. This labor process is onto-formative: in contested and situationally specific ways, the practices of the managers bring a neoliberal order into being. This process is traced in relation to organizational life, privatization, and also globalization, which is partly constructed by practice from the periphery. Summaries of three case histories and extracts from others are given.