Andreas Giazitzoglu, Northumbria University

Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Audencia Business School

Jason Luger, Northumbria University

Callum Kimpton, Monash University

Kai Roland Green, Aarhus University

Garth Stahl, The University of Queensland

Masculinities studies has expanded significantly across disciplines and emerging contexts including entrepreneurship, healthcare, education, and politics. Recent scholarship increasingly adopts constructivist, decolonial, and intersectional approaches to understand how men enact masculine identities at work. This special issue invites contributions that deepen understanding of how gender shapes social arrangements and well-being in contemporary work and organisational contexts.

Gender, Work & Organization has become a leading venue for empirical masculinities scholarship. Recent contributions demonstrate how masculinities relate to inclusion and exclusion in workplaces, how they are shaped by organisational spaces and professional socialisation, and how individuals are marginalised when they fail to conform to masculine norms. The journal seeks further analysis exploring these complex relationships between gender, power, hierarchy, and organisational dynamics.

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Potential topics

• Changing imaginaries of bodies and body types in work and organisational settings (e.g., the role of muscularity, body-art and digital representations of the body)
• New and emergent forms of 'masculine capital' in work and organisations
• How historical circumstances have impacted contemporary masculinities in work and organisations
• The physical spaces of masculinity and how they impact work and organisations
• Global variegations and convergences in trends in both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic masculinities
• Queer(ying) masculinities in work and organisations
• Critical readings of images, discourses, politics and practices linked to masculinities in work and organisations
• How masculinities are negotiated and shaped during early professional socialisation and how these processes inform the reproduction of gendered work and organisational cultures
• What novel and innovative methodologies can be leveraged to advance the study of gendered power and practice in work and organisational settings?
• What can the analysis of contemporary workplaces (remote, virtual and transnational) reveal about modern masculinities?
• How are workplace and organisational masculinities re-shaped or reconstituted in response to emerging social and political pressures that threaten hegemonic gender orders?
• How can symbolic dimensions of masculine practice advance our understanding of recognition and legitimacy in specific organisational fields?
• How do portrayals of masculinities in media, culture and public discourse inform our understanding of gendered life and livelihoods?

Timeline

• January 10, 2027: Submission deadline