Men at the Margins

This project aims to contribute to the further exploration of processes of marginalisation of men and masculinities in different geographies and from a transnational perspective. It interrogates how marginalised masculinities are intersectionally shaped by race, class, gender identity, migration, and other relevant factors. Men at the Margins aims to explore the range of experiences of men living outside the hegemonic norms of masculinity. The project involves scholars from more than 15 countries across the Global South and Global North. An edited collection of these studies is in process for publication with Routledge: Men and Masculinities at the Margins: Decolonial and Intersectional Approaches. Editors: Sofia Aboim; Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila; and Jeff Hearn.

Sofia Aboim is a Research Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She has been involved in numerous research projects, including a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (CoG 615594) and is currently leading the RACE TROUBLE project funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation. Sofia’s recent publications include numerous academic articles and the monographs Plural Masculinities. The remaking of the self in private life (Routledge, 2016) and Gender Fields. The social organisation of gender identity (Routledge, 2024). Sofia’s recent work explores the intersections of gender, masculinities and trans identities with multiple marginalisations, from postcolonial and decolonial perspectives.

Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila is an Associate Professor in Social Justice at University College Dublin. By background, he is a medical anthropologist with a PhD from Columbia University, New York. He has published in areas of masculinities, sexual and reproductive rights; transnational migration; and global health. He co-edited Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Transnational Dispersed Centres, Gender Power, Contradictions (Routledge 2019) and is the author of Being a Man in a Transnational World: The Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration (Routledge 2014). He has previously taught at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima; Georgetown University, Washington, DC; and at the University of the Philippines, Manila.

Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor of Human Geography, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK; and formerly Professor in Gender Studies, Linköping University and Örebro University. He is co-managing editor, Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality book series and was Co-Chair of RINGS, the International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies 2014–2020. He has researched long-term on gender, sexuality, violence, age, work, organizations, policy, ICTs and transnational processes, with a special interest in critical studies on men and masculinities. Recent books include Age at Work, with Wendy Parkin (2021), Knowledge, Power and Young Sexualities, with Tamara Shefer (2022); Digital Gender-Sexual Violations, with Matthew Hall and Ruth Lewis (2023); Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations (2024), Routledge Handbook of Feminisms and Gender Studies (2025), and Interconnecting the Violences of Men (2025), all three co-edited.