Robert
Biographic Data
| ID | 41345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Robert |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERT |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4000-2257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 110 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 497 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 106 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1915 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Disrupting academic narratives of working-class masculinity as deficit
This article critiques how academic scholarship has too often framed working-class and marginalised young men through a deficit lens – positioning them as emotionally limited, regressive or inherently resistant to gender equality. Such portrayals risk reinforcing epistemic injustice by excluding these young men as credible narrators of their social worlds. In response, we call for more generative approaches to understanding masculinity on the mar…
From Compliance to Stewardship
Universities internationally are entering a new phase in their response to gender-based violence, shaped by shifting regulatory expectations and the growing influence of digitally-mediated misogyny among students. This commentary suggests the rise of the ‘manosphere’ (loosely connected online networks promoting misogynistic ideas) has reconfigured the conditions under which gendered harm emerges on campus, creating a mismatch between institutiona…
Trajectories of Care
Drawing on a study involving 41 men employed as support workers in the Australia Health Care and Social Assistance (HCSA) sector, in this article we investigate where in their lives and how men turn to caring roles. Documenting continuities of men's caring practices in their work lives and private lives, we present a series of men's care biographies and add to the literature on masculinity and care work by using the concept of “trajectories of ca…
Introduction
When we first developed the proposal for this Special Issue in mid 2024, a high-profile incident at an elite co-educational school in Melbourne, Australia, had drawn national attention: a group of
The limits of ‘backlash’ masculinity
This paper proposes a reconsideration of backlash as the dominant frame for analysing resistance to gender equality. Widely used to describe reactionary responses to feminist progress, the term often under-theorizes the strategic, organized and structural dimensions of contemporary masculinist mobilization. Building on feminist accounts of patriarchal adaptation, we foreground masculinity as a coordinated and politically organized project, well b…
The reanimation of normative manhood acts in schools
Drawing on qualitative survey data from 107 Australian teachers, we analyse how boys perform masculinity in schools through dominance, derision, defiance, and harassment, in ways that constitute reanimated normative manhood acts (Schwalbe, 2014). Teachers describe a noticeable shift around 2022, coinciding with the rising visibility and popularity of the manosphere, when some boys’ misogyny became more explicit, emboldened, and unchecked. Buildin…
Being a woman in Iran
Gender inequality in Iran has been argued to persist through discriminatory laws, state-enforced moral codes, and social surveillance, and the risks attached to public expression intensified after the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom mobilisations. Yet empirical work that demonstrates Iranian women's own accounts of how these constraints are lived, and what change and allyship could mean in practice, remains limited. This study analyses anonymous open-e…
Examining the Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Young Australians’ School‐Level Education
Australian policy and practice increasingly acknowledges the need to respond to children as victim‐survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) in their own right. As part of this, and in recognition that schools often have the most consistent contact with young people experiencing DFV, there is mounting recognition of the role education settings can play in terms of early intervention and support provision for young victim‐survivors. However,…
Gendered Attitudes or Structural Barriers? Men Front Line Workers' Perspectives on What Keeps Men out of Paid Care Work in Australia
Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid care through cultural and identity‐based accounts, less has been done to examine the structural mechanisms that sustain the feminisation of care. This paper addresses that gap by analysing men's experiences in frontline aged and disability care in Aus…
The Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues Special Issue “Entangled Inequalities
This special issue of The Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues stems from the international conference "Class, Race, Place: Exploring Intersectionality for Access to Higher Education Globally," hosted by the National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice (NCRTJ)-an Australian institution dedicated to advancing Indigenous sovereignty and social equity-and the Alliance of Working-Class Academics Worldwide (AWCA), a global network of scho…
Qualified Hope
The pandemic and its aftermath have prompted an extended public and academic conversation about young people, with concerns about the increasing uncertainty of youth employment and education trajectories into the near future. Despite the varying policy approaches surrounding the pandemic, a discourse of concern for a “COVID generation”, allegedly characterized by the complete upending of young people’s futures, has been widely popularized. This i…
On the utility of the concept of ‘school-related gender-based violence’ (SRGBV) in the context of escalating gendered violence in schools
Adolescence’, manufactured outrage and instructed victimhood
This article examines the cultural and political discourse surrounding the Netflix series Adolescence (2025), analysing how boys’ alienation is positioned within reactionary, anti-feminist agendas. We argue that while the series has sparked significant debate about masculinity, gender violence, and youth identities, its reception reveals how grievance politics are cultivated. Through a consideration of what we describe as manufactured outrage and…
Institutional responses to sexual harassment and misogyny towards women teachers from boys in Australian schools in the post-#metoo era
Sexual harassment and misogyny are historical experiences of the teaching workforce in Australia. While #metoo promised a moment of reckoning for all girls and women, this reckoning has been less acutely felt in Australian schools, evidenced by a persistence of sexual harassment and misogyny despite progress allegedly made in political and public discourse. In this paper, we draw on data from interviews with 30 women teachers and critically exami…
Like in Every Other Facet of Life, I am Privileged to be a Man
This article analyses young men’s political subjectivities through a prism of everyday alignments and disassociations with historically, socially and spatially produced masculinities. Drawing on qualitative data from a wider project on men and care work, we analyse insights from interview and focus group data pertaining to young-adult men (19–37 years old) working in the Australian Health Care and Social Assistance sector to document how they dis…
Public service sentiment in Australian digital communities on Reddit and Whirlpool during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper explores the role of digitally networked local communities on the platforms Reddit and Whirlpool in helping citizens navigate and understand Australian public services during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study incorporates an analysis of six location-based Australian subreddits and nine discussion forums on the platform Whirlpool. An inductive content analysis on a dataset of 14,000 posts and comments collected across Fe…
Understanding the Mediating Effect of Child Abuse and Poor Mental Health on the Use of Adolescent Family Violence
There is increasing recognition of the use of family violence by children and young people, and the need to build the evidence base on understanding this form of violence. Adolescent family violence (AFV, also referred to as adolescent violence in the home) refers to the use of violence by a young person against another family member within the home, and can include physical, verbal, emotional, psychological, financial and/or sexual abuse and pro…
To hell with toxic masculinity
This article contributes to the literature on men and masculinities that debates the relative importance and definition of the concept of toxic masculinity. We argue that, despite some well-developed critiques, the concept retains potential analytic usefulness for scholars. We discuss toxic masculinity, including the genesis and evolution in scholarly thinking about this concept as an inherent trait, its overlaps and distinctions to Raewyn Connel…
Beyond the Clickbait
There is now an expansive literature on the manosphere - the loosely connected groups of digital communities that revolve around men's rights, aspirations and entitlements, and the perceived constraints upon these. Such studies have produced important critical insights into the collective and organized dimension of the networked harassment of women in digital settings, as well as highlighting the manosphere's craving to reanimate regressive modes…
Research Handbook on the Sociology of Gender
International audience
White Warriors and Weak Women
White Warriors and Weak Women: Identifying Central Discourses of Masculinity in Neo-Nazi Telegram Channels
Manfluencers’, masculinities and the practice of misogyny in educational settings
Drinking as affective labour
In the public imaginary, drinking is often thought of as a behaviour separate from individuals’ formal labour practices, but studies increasingly highlight the complex ways alcohol is entwined with work. Building on recent conceptual developments in the sociological fields of youth, health and work, we illustrate how drinking can be productively understood as ‘affective labour’, and thus itself a form of work that generates valuable embodied stat…
You can't trust the mainstream media
Alternative news media, which opposes mainstream news media, has been utilised by the far right to proliferate their ideology. This study explores how the scale of discussion, and negative framing, of different groups that are commonly targeted by the far right changes over time. Taking 7089 articles published by a prominent Australian far-right alternative news media outlet over a 7.5-year period, and a corpus of 311 keywords, a keyword frequenc…
I Can Choose to be a Good Man Even if I Got a Raw Deal
This article provides findings from our dual-computational/qualitative analysis of r/Stoicism, a large subreddit in which self-presenting boys and men seek Stoic philosophical advice on various life matters. In choosing to investigate this decidedly (hetero)masculinized online space in which users share their anxieties and grievances, we expected to find substantial evidence of 'toxic' manosphere-style discourse, while also hoping to uncover coun…
Logical form, its structure and derivation
Beyond ‘Neet’ and ‘tidy’ pathways
Jones' (2002) discussion of polarised transitions and the ‘fast and slow lanes to adulthood’ espoused by Bynner et al. (2002) are good examples of how dualistic language often permeates youth transitions discourses. This often results in transitions research concentrating on a dichotomy of experience during the youth phase. The primary purpose of this article is to develop the argument for the inclusion of detailed documentation and analysis of t…
Misrepresenting ‘choice biographies’
This paper provides a reply to Woodman's (2009) recent argument that youth studies often incorrectly attribute the concept of ‘choice biographies’ to the work of Ulrich Beck. Drawing heavily on Beck's own words, this paper contends that youth researchers might not be making this association unduly. Consideration is paid to some conceptual issues outlined by Will Atkinson, which Woodman has not appeared to consider, that challenge Beck's rejection…
On the door-step of equality
In this semi-structured interview research, we investigate the attitudes of 22 academy-level association football (soccer) players who are potentially on the verge of becoming professional athletes. We find that, as a result of these men belonging to a generation holding inclusive attitudes towards homosexuality, independent of whether they maintain contact with gay men, they are unanimously supportive of gay men coming out on their team. Thus, t…
The problem of anti-feminist ‘manfluencer’ Andrew Tate in Australian schools
There is growing visibility of online 'manfluencers' who espouse extreme masculine ideals and share them with their audiences of boys and young men.Taking this phenomenon as a launch-pad, we join the tradition of research that exposes sexism in schools and theorizes girls and women's experiences of working within and against masculine hegemony.Drawing on qualitative interviews with 30 women teachers in Australia, we suggest the sexism identified …
The problem of social generations
Over the previous seven years the application of a social generation paradigm or ‘theory’ has gained increasing currency as a method in analysing young people's relationship with the life course. Whilst not a new concept or approach its resurgence and reconfiguration to ‘new’ times has seen some writers positioning it as a ‘new orthodoxy’ or ‘consensus’ within youth studies. In this it is seen as providing a conceptual framework that better helps…
One step forward, one step Beck
In a time of rapid and unprecedented social change, the concepts we use to make sense of the ways in which young people understand and interact with the world are very much under the microscope. Some researchers argue that we need to reinvigorate our conceptual repertoire, while others argue that our theoretical tool box still has the capacity to consider continuities as well as change. Building on an earlier paper, this article provides a rejoin…
Continuity, change and complexity in the performance of masculinity among elite young footballers in England
Following recent research evidencing that young men are redefining the essential components of what it is to be a man, this paper draws on qualitative interviews with 22 elite-level, English Premier League academy level football (soccer) players to investigate their performances and understandings of masculinity in relation to decreasing homohysteria. Even in this gender-segregated, near-total institution, these working-class, non-educationally a…
Educational aspirations among UK Young Teenagers
Large socio‐economic differences in educational attainment and participation in Higher Education (HE) are seen in the United Kingdom (UK). Furthermore, improvements in attainment and in rates of progression to university have been much faster for most ethnic minority groups than for White children. Political rhetoric explains these differences in terms of a lack of aspiration, particularly among White, working‐class boys. This paper extends recen…
How do I become blue pilled?’
Through an analysis of 4chan’s /adv/ or ‘advice’ board – in which predominately male users seek advice on life matters – here we examine masculine ontological insecurity and its implications for understanding how ‘toxic’ masculine identities emerge, and how young men more generally struggle to make sense of their lives. Advancing extant scholarship, our findings uncover an ‘on the cusp’ masculine identity – subject to the anxieties and self-perce…
Domestic labour, masculinity and social change
Drawing on a seven-year longitudinal qualitative study in England, this paper presents evidence of how engagement with housework and childcare is regular and normalized for contemporary working-class young adult men. I explain this development with reference to inclusive masculinity theory, but supplement this by incorporating Mannheim’s concept of social generation, as recently adopted by scholars of youth sociology. The paper thus further augme…
Institutional responses to sexual harassment and misogyny towards women teachers from boys in Australian schools in the post-#metoo era
Sexual harassment and misogyny are historical experiences of the teaching workforce in Australia. While #metoo promised a moment of reckoning for all girls and women, this reckoning has been less acutely felt in Australian schools, evidenced by a persistence of sexual harassment and misogyny despite progress allegedly made in political and public discourse. In this paper, we draw on data from interviews with 30 women teachers and critically exami…
The currency of images
This paper examines contemporary gender relations among young people by taking young men’s experiences with and understandings of “sexting” as a case in point. Based on a focus group study with university undergraduate men in Melbourne, Australia, we analyse what is seen as having value and what is seen as constituting a risk when engaging in sexting, and how this is perceived as different for men and women. We demonstrate how value and risk are …
I just got on with it’
In the 1980s, researchers established the need to document and analyse the educational attitudes, behaviours and outcomes of ‘ordinary kids' as a means of developing a holistic account of school experience. Yet, while significant attention is given to extremes in educational attitudes and behaviours, ‘ordinariness' tends to remain overlooked in contemporary research and policy discourses. This article contributes to this void by presenting data f…
The New Zealand OE as governance through freedom
Against the backdrop of social, economic, and demographic changes of recent times, Arnett has proposed his theory of ‘emerging adulthood’, essentially a new stage of the life-course between adolescence and adulthood. Arnett sees emerging adulthood as a distinct, historically unprecedented period demographically, subjectively, and in terms of identity explorations. Furthermore, he claims that this time typically involves independence and represent…
Understanding autonomy and relationality in men's lives
Masculinities scholarship tends toward describing autonomy as bound up with hegemonic masculine ideals such as independence, atomization, and self-sufficiency, without fully delving into the concept of autonomy. This article offers a more in-depth conceptual treatment of autonomy, compared to its more simplified rendering in the literature on the dominant relational conceptualizations of masculinities. In doing so, we follow recent calls to avoid…
One Small Step for Man
While recent scholarship has documented a growth of same-sex, nonsexual kissing among young men in Western societies, this may reflect a weakening, rather than complete transformation, of hegemonic gender structures. Critically engaging with current theorizing of 'inclusive masculinities,' this article reports the findings from a study of young Australian men's views on what constitutes acceptable forms of homosocial intimacy and how they attach …
Caring masculinities among working‐class men in blue‐collar occupations in the UK
Research considering men, boys, and the concept of caring masculinities has proliferated in the last five years, although attention has predominantly been given to privileged men's practices of care in the private realm. In this article, we explore caring masculinities among working‐class men in the United Kingdom employed in blue‐collar work, highlighting the possibilities for transformation and change stemming from men in the margins. Drawing o…
Absences, presences and unintended consequences in debates about masculinities and social change
This article offers a reply – and an alternative perspective – to Andria Christofidou’s recent contribution to this journal, which critically engages with debates on men, masculinities and social change. We first suggest that understanding change requires us to go beyond pitting theoretical frameworks against one another, and we highlight work that has done this. Second, as our main point, we argue that when bringing in intersectionality as a the…
Problematizing a popular panacea
Scholars using the concept of 'social generation' are committed to understanding the relationship between social change and social inequality. However, in this article we raise a variety of concerns about the empirical and theoretical foundations of the social generation approach. Complementing and advancing critical scholarship on social change, our concern is to advocate for a theoretically robust sociology of youth that can properly tackle que…
Caring Masculinities in Theory and Practice
This article intends to stimulate conversation and critical thinking about the concept of 'caring masculinities' and its ongoing relevance to the field of critical studies of men and masculinities (CSMM). Caring masculinities is subject to debate around its theoretical premises, its potential as a feminist concept, and the limits of the empirical evidence base that underpins the concept and its associated implications. We respond to some of these…
Youth, social class and privilege in the antipodes
In recent decades, youth sociology in the antipodes has paid inadequate attention to social class and the question of privilege. We critique narrow and utilitarian ways that social class has been analysed in the antipodes, arguing that the primary focus on the marginalised has overlooked the significance of privilege in perpetuating and maintaining social reproduction. While there is some evidence of a growing interest in the subjective experienc…
The Stoa Gutter Well a Late Archaic Deposit in the Athenian Agora
S. R. Roberts, Alice Glock, The Stoa Gutter Well a Late Archaic Deposit in the Athenian Agora, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 1-74
Towards a Sociological Understanding of Sexting as a Social Practice
This article makes the case for understanding young people's engagement with 'sexting' as a social practice. Moving away from the dominant focus on teenagers and (sexual) risk and instead approaching sexting as an 'everyday' practice sheds light on how sexting is perceived and situated as a normalised part of contemporary youth culture. Drawing on 10 focus groups with 37 undergraduate men in Melbourne, Australia, our data reveal young men's signi…
Youth Studies, Housing Transitions and the 'Missing Middle
A recent but growing trend in studies of young people's lives has been to highlight that there is a 'missing middle' in the youth studies research agenda. It has been argued that much youth research focuses on either successful or very troubled transitions to adulthood, with the lives of those who might simply be 'getting by' representing an empirical absence. Building on previous work that has addressed how such a missing middle can add to our u…
Personal and Bibliographical
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Mensurations d'indigènes du haut Tonkin
Robert . Mensurations d'indigènes du haut Tonkin. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, VI° Série. Tome 9, 1918. pp. 33-35
Le génie Hoang Nicou Chan chez les Latis du Haut-Tonkin
Robert . Le génie Hoang Nicou Chan chez les Latis du Haut-Tonkin. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, VI° Série. Tome 10, 1919. pp. 8-9
Ecriture magique et hypnotisme chez les Méo
Robert . Ecriture magique et hypnotisme chez les Méo. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, VI° Série. Tome 10, 1919. pp. 6-7
Industrie des bois de cercueil dans le Haut-Tonkin
Robert . Industrie des bois de cercueil dans le Haut-Tonkin. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, VI° Série. Tome 10, 1919. pp. 3-5
On Commending Authority
The excitement with which the conferring of the Red Hat on Cardinal Gracias was greeted in Bombay had a special quality. It was not just that it came to the first Indian Cardinal; it was rather like the enthusiasm of Preston or Bolton on receiving the Cup. The Cup, clearly, is won. So in a real sense was the Hat, and that is the difference between East and West.There had been no attempt to disguise the disappointment felt when about a month earli…
Medical Geography in India and Pakistan
World Red Cross Day
World Red Cross Day, 8 May, was commemorated by radio and television in many countries. The broadcasts, registered in French, English, German, Spanish and Arabic and intended for all five continents, as in previous years were to mark the anniversary of Henry Dunant's birth
Calendar of Meetings
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Table des matières et index analytique du volume VI
Tegdaoust I, Recherches sur Aoudaghost
Table des matières et index analytique du volume IX
On trouvera après chaque titre l'indication du numéro, en chiffres arabes
Terminología del parentesco Guahibo
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News for the Members
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The Stoa Gutter Well a Late Archaic Deposit in the Athenian Agora
S. R. Roberts, Alice Glock, The Stoa Gutter Well a Late Archaic Deposit in the Athenian Agora, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 1-74
Logical form, its structure and derivation
Sin, Organized Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England
Evesham Borough Records of the Seventeenth Century, 1605-1687
Bibliographie
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Teacher education
06–521 Barbera, Michele (Munich, Germany; [email protected] ), The HyperLearning Project: Towards a distributed and semantically structured e-research and e-learning platform . Literary and Linguistic Computing (Oxford University Press) 21.1 (2006), 77–82. 06–522 Bean, Wendy, STELLA: Professional Learning Pilot Project . Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (Australian Literacy Educators' Association) 29.1 (2006), 79–86. 06–523 Commins, …
Pragmatics
06–594 Baker, Mona (U Manchester, UK; [email protected] ), Contextualization in translator- and interpreter-mediated events . Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier) 38.3 (2006), 321–337. 06–595 Ermida, Isabel (U Minho, Braga, Portugal; [email protected] ), Linguistic mechanisms of power in Nineteen Eighty-Four : Applying politeness theory to Orwell's world . Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier) 38.6 (2006), 842–862. 06–596 Frajzyngier, Zygmu…
Language teaching
06–433 Berry, Vivien (U Hong Kong, China; [email protected] ) & Arthur McNeill, Raising English language standards in Hong Kong . Language Policy (Springer) 4.4 (2005), 371–394. 06–434 Callow, Jon, Images, politics and multiliteracies: Using a visual metalanguage . Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (Australian Literacy Educators' Association) 29.1 (2006), 7–23. 06–435 Chen, Runyi (South China Normal U, China; [email protected] ) & Bernard …
Applied linguistics
06–579 El-Yasin, Mohammed K. (Yarmouk U, Irbid, Jordan; [email protected] ) & Abdulla K. Al-Shehabat, Translating proverbs . Babel (John Benjamins) 51.2 (2005), 161–173. 06–580 Flowerdew, John (City U Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; [email protected] ) & Alina Wan, Genre analysis of tax computation letters: How and why tax accountants write the way they do . English for Specific Purposes (Elsevier) 25.2 (2006),133–153. 06–581 Francis, Norbert (N…
Neurolinguistics
06–609 Ávila, cesar (U Jaime I, Spain), Julio González, María-antonia Parcet & Vicente Belloch, Selective alteration of native but not second language articulation in a patient with Foreign Accent Syndrome . NeuroReport (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) 15.14 (2004), 2267–2270. 06–610 Conboy, Barbara T. (U Washington, USA; [email protected] ) & Debra L. Mills, Two languages, one developing brain: Event-related potentials to words in bilingua…
Reading & writing
06–475 Al-Ali, Mohammed N. (Jordan U of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan), Genre-pragmatic strategies in English letter-of-application writing of Jordanian Arabic–English bilinguals . International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Multilingual Matters) 9.1 (2006), 119–139. 06–476 Anderson, Bill (Massey U College of Education, New Zealand; [email protected] ), Writing power into online discussion . Computers and Compos…
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