Men in the World

Abstract

For a full understanding of the masculinity construction of the Norwegian missionaries to the Zulus, it is necessary to move from local and regional levels and think globally. Raewyn Connell claims that locally situated lives are (and were) ‘powerfully influenced by geopolitical struggles, Western imperial expansion and colonial empires, global markets, multinational corporations, labour migration, and transnational media’.1 She furthermore claims that the structure of gender relations in transnational and global arenas does not simply mirror patterns found in local arenas. The interaction of many local gender orders multiplies the forms of masculinities present in a global context. Connell speaks of ‘globalizing masculinities’ — patterns of masculinities that are standardised across localities’.2KeywordsMission StationWhite SettlerColonial AuthorityMission LandTitle DeedThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.