Professor Jeff Hearn has been at the forefront of research on men and masculinities, and has published extensively on sociology, social policy, gender, sexuality, violence, organisations, management, and cultural studies. His current research focuses on men, gender relations, organising and transnational patriarchies, along with violation and memory work. He is professor at Hanken School of Economics (Finland), University of Örebro (Sweden) and University of Huddersfield (UK). He is the co-editor of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies [http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rnor20#.VpT7kFK3Qkw], and recently published Men of the World (Sage, 2015) [https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/men-of-the-world/book236923] and co-edited the special issue of NORMA, ‘Men, masculinities and young people: North-South dialogues’ [http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rnor20/10/2].

The interview was conducted with Associate Professor Mona Livholts, Linköping University (Sweden) on 16 September 2015 in Norrköping, Sweden, as a RAW Dialogue Chair, which constitutes a stage, a space, to enter into conversations about ‘writing’ as an intellectual practice that shapes and re-shapes knowledge. RAW, The Network for Reflexive Academic Writing Methodologies, was founded in 2008 by Livholts. It is an international interdisciplinary research network, which constitutes a meeting place for researchers, teachers and academic professionals interested in all forms of writing methodologies.

In 1991 in a Cambridge University laboratory two computer scientists, Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky, wanted to keep their eyes on the availability of fresh coffee while they were working. Accordingly, they fixed a recycled video camera to an old computer and then a video frame-grabber on top of the coffee machine placed outside their working environment, called the “Trojan Room”. In the name of having more “control” over the coffee, they posted the very first real-time cybersurveillance recording process on the Internet: 1 they could watch it from other places. This, one of many examples of the reach of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and virtualization, has led into many kinds of transnational cybersurveillance experiences that have since grabbed the attention of many Internet surfers (Campanella 2002). Transnationalizations take many forms and have many implications for intersectional gender relations, for men and masculinities, for hegemony. They comprise acutely contradictory processes, with multiple forms of difference, presence, and absence for men, and women, in power and men, and women, who are dispossessed materially or in terms of aspects of citizenship. Different transnationalizations problematize taken-for-granted national, organizational, and local contexts; gender relations; and men and masculinities in many ways. This chapter builds on critical debates on men, masculinities, hegemony, and patriarchy in relation to intersectionalities and transnationalizations. It uses the concept of transnational patriarchies, or transpatriarchies for short, to speak of the structural tendency and individualized …

The contributions to this volume are the result of the activities carried out within the frame of GEXcel’s second research theme, Deconstruct- ing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities. The authors were among the presenters at the GEXcel Conference ‘Men and Masculinities, Mov- ing On! Embodiments, Virtualities, Transnationalisations’ held on 27th– 29th April, 2009 (see Appendix). Some of the conference presentations will be published in GEXcel Work-in-Progress Report VII. This volume is of a work-in-progress character, and thus the texts presented here are to be elaborated further. The reader should also be aware that, as this is a report of working papers, some minor editorial modifications have been made to some papers, but the language of those contributed by non-native speakers of English has not been specifically revised.

The aim of this article is to deepen the understanding of male patients' experiences of abuse in health care (AHC). Thirteen patients who had experienced AHC were interviewed using a Grounded Theory methodology. Three categories, "Crises of Confidence," "Ignored" and "Frustration," intersected to form the core category "Mentally Pinioned." This last category referred to patients not being able to act in accordance with their own conviction and interests. This study shows that men's experience of AHC go far beyond what earlier research had suggested, which generally limited it to disagreements and misunderstandings in health care or hospital errors. In this study, AHC was shown to have a profound impact at a deep personal level, leaving the men concerned "mentally pinioned."