Masculinities in the Field

Brooke A. Porter is Associate Professor of Food & Sustainability Studies, Umbra Institute, Perugia, Italy. Her research interests include marine and aquatic conservation, tourism as a development, conservation and management strategy and social entrepreneurship tourism. Heike A. Schänzel is Associate Professor and Programme Leader Postgraduate in International Tourism Management at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her research interests include tourist behaviour, families in tourism, sociality in tourism and gender issues. Joseph M. Cheer is Research Professor, Wakayama University, Japan and Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia. His research interests include social-ecological resilience, Asia-Pacific, tourism geographies and anthropology of tourism.

Contributors



Foreword

Nigel Morgan and Annette Pritchard



Introduction - Issues in the Field: Masculinities in Masculine Spaces

Brooke A. Porter, Heike A. Schänzel and Joseph M. Cheer



Part 1: Hegemonic and Heteronormative Masculinities 



1 It's Okay to Cry: Encouraging Emotional Writing Among Male Tourism Scholars

Jack Shepherd



2 When Is a Hegemonic Male Not a Hegemonic Male? Personal Reflections of a Tourism(ish) Researcher

Neil Carr



3 Exploring the Expression of the Masculine in Adventure Activities: A Personal Reflection

Mark B. Orams



4 Meditations on Masculinity: Encounters in Salty Research Spaces

Jacques D. Mahler-Coetzee 



Part 2: Performing Heteronormative Masculinities



5 Performing and Negotiating Filipino Masculinities in the Field

Richard S. Aquino



6 How Masculinity Creeps In: Awkward Field Encounters of a Male Researcher

Can-Seng Ooi



Part 3: Situated Masculinities



7 A Tale of Two Researchers: Masculinity in Cross-cultural Contexts

Joseph M. Cheer and Alan A. Lew



8 Gender, Identity and Discomfort: Negotiating Self and Context in the Field

Dominic Lapointe



9 Journeying into Yogaland: A Cautionary Tale of a White Guy's Perspectives on Yoga-related Fieldwork in Japan

Patrick McCartney



10 A Mzungu in Kenya: Dissonant Masculinity and Ethnographic Field Research in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gary Lacey



11 Doing Fieldwork in Palestine: Checkpoints, Access Restrictions, Security and Well-being

Rami K. Isaac



Part 4: Paternal Masculinities



12 Finding Gender at the Intersection of Family and Field: Family Presences in Sweden

Stuart Reid



13 Fatherhood in the Field: Reflections on Kinship, Identity and Ethnographic Research

Michael A. Di Giovine



Masculinities in Tourism Research: Implications and Conclusions

Joseph M. Cheer, Heike A. Schänzel and Brooke A. Porter



Index