MEDUSA

Genders in Transition: Masculinities, Affects and Bodies

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Date of inception 01 September 2017

Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities

The MEDUSA - Genders in Transition: Masculinities, Affects, and Bodies research group is made up of researchers whose work focuses on genders, masculinities, affects and bodies. Its continued mission is to explore these fields and their intersections, and to critically analyse them from a non-essentialist, transitional perspective in line with feminist epistemologies. We consider posthumanism to be a useful epistemological framework for exploring new conceptual, heuristic and analytical models that take into account non-representational theories and address the productive intersection between genders, affects and bodies, and the assemblages in which they are immersed. We aim to move the research forward by carrying out empirical studies that explore our core fields from fresh perspectives. We strive towards research that makes an impact, is committed to giving back to society and focuses on knowledge transfer. We adopt an interdisciplinary perspective encompassing anthropology, sociology, social psychology and philosophy.