J Hearn

Biographic Data

ID13002
NAMEJ Hearn
GIVEN NAMESJ
FAMILY NAMEHearn
SIGNATUREHEARN J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Huddersfield
ORCID0000-0002-9808-1413
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS122
TOTAL CITATIONS1001
AUTHOR COUNT120
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX16

  • Governing through absence: The analysis and wider implications of Finnish policy discourses on ageing and care in neo-liberal times

    Open AccessHanna Sjögren, Charlotta Niemistö et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2026

    Contemporary ageing policy often constructs demographic change as a challenge requiring urgent intervention. While ageing is not seen as a problem per se, in policy debate it is often presented as a crisis. Consequently, countries and institutions have sought to identify solutions to the represented problem. A common policy response in Western nations has been to focus on individual activity as a solution. The implications of such developments ar…

  • Book symposium: Men, masculinities and Southern urbanism

    Open AccessRomit Chowdhury, J Hearn et al.ARTICLEGender Place & Culture2026References: 25

    This book symposium is a multilogue on four books Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: The Pressure of Being a Man in an African City, by Mario Schmidt; City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport, by Romit Chowdhury; Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony, by Shannon Philip; and A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism…

  • Gender-based violence in higher education and research performing organisations: Three steps in critique and reconceptualisation

    Open AccessJ Hearn, Sofia Strid et al.ARTICLEJournal of Gender-Based Violence2025

    The critique and conceptualisation of current policy and research on gender-based violence in higher education institutions (HEIs) and research performing organisations (RPOs) are matters of central importance. Building critically on recent European research and policy experience, and conceptual reflections arising from a large European multi-country research and innovation project, three key steps in critique and reconceptualising of gender-base…

  • Hegemonic digitalisation in policy on older people: The Finnish case and wider social implications

    Open AccessJ Hearn, Charlotta Niemistö et al.ARTICLEThe Sociological Review2025References: 5

    This article brings together societal debates on digitalisation and analysis of governmental policy on older people, through the theoretical frame of hegemonic digitalisation, and the empirical case of Finnish policy. With changing demographics in many countries, old age has gained high-profile focus in governmental policy in recent years, which has in turn become increasingly constructed in relation to digitalisation, often via an interventionis…

  • Men, masculinities, and the planet at the end of (M)Anthropocene: Ecological/social/economic/political relations, processes and consequences

    Kadri Aavik, J Hearn et al.ARTICLENORMA2025References: 67

  • Re-reading men's facial hair: The case of the modernization of the Turkish civil service

    F Oya Aktaş, J HearnARTICLEJournal of Gender Studies2025References: 32

    This paper presents a critical analysis of the links between modernization and masculinities in Türkiye through the case of the regulation of men’s hair in the civil service. The Turkish civil service is an institution where the state has accumulated and deployed power, disciplined its civil servant employees, and shaped and transformed masculinities as part of the broader process of modernization. Both the civil service as a research field, and …

  • Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms and Gender Studies: Convergences, Divergences and Pluralities

    Anália Torres, Paula Campos Pinto et al.BOOKRoutledge International Handbook…2024

    This Handbook is an important contribution to the recent history of and contemporary debates on feminist, gender, and women’s studies seen in a global perspective. It tackles current developments in the area by examining their multiple configurations in different countries across the world and taking stock of the tensions and controversies that have recently emerged against and within the field. The volume brings together essays from renowned fem…

  • Evaluating the concept of political masculinity/ies: A simple idea or a case of too many ideas

    Open AccessJ HearnARTICLEEuropean Journal of Politics and…2024Cited by: 2References: 16

    This article critically interrogates and evaluates the concept of political masculinities as part of enhancing dialogue between political science and critical studies on men and masculinities. It discusses what counts as masculinity, what counts as political and how they connect. The connections are all too clear in mainstream politics, not only in populist, authoritarian, ethno-nationalist and militaristic politics but also in democratic, social…

  • The Bounded Limitlessness of Digital Gender–Sexual Violations: The Implications for Women and Gender–Sexual Relations

    Open AccessM Hall, Ruth Lewis et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2024References: 6

    Developments in digital technologies might provide limitless ways to reshape humanity's very existence, but also open up what we term “bounded limitless” opportunities for digital gender–sexual violations (DGSV). That is, “limitless” opportunities for men to sexually violate women within the inherent “boundedness” of digital technological infrastructures and architectures. Building on the existing interdisciplinary feminist scholarship, we explor…

  • The Spread of Digital Intimate Partner Violence: Ethical Challenges for Business, Workplaces, Employers and Management

    Open AccessJ Hearn, Matthew Hall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business Ethics2023

    In recent decades, huge technological changes have opened up possibilities and potentials for new socio-technological forms of violence, violation and abuse, themselves intersectionally gendered, that form part of and extend offline intimate partner violence (IPV). Digital IPV (DIPV)—the use of digital technologies in and for IPV—takes many forms, including: cyberstalking, internet-based abuse, non-consensual intimate imagery, and reputation abus…

  • ‘How Did This Happen?’: Making Retrospective, Present and Prospective Sense of Intimate Relationships Where Men Have Been Violent

    Open AccessKatrín Ólafsdóttir, J HearnARTICLEFeminist Encounters A Journal of…2023

    In seeking to explain intimate partner violence (IPV), feminist research has shifted its focus from individual explanations to the social contexts of such violence. Adopting such a perspective, we explore the narratives of three men who identify as perpetrators of violence and three women who identify as victims/survivors of IPV. Our analyses focus on how the participants present their relationships, employing the notion of affective – discursive…

  • Appreciation, admiration and affection

    Open AccessJ HearnARTICLESexualities2023

    As you get older, a couple of things happen – the probability of your own dying increases, and so too does that of friends. So, recently there have been the deaths of some very good friends and colleagues

  • Current debates on men and masculinities: An interview with Jeff Hearn

    Open AccessJ Hearn, Atilla Barutçu et al.ARTICLENORMA2023Cited by: 1References: 7

    This interview article addresses: the state of current debates and key priority areas in Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities, including the implications for men and masculinities in contemporary global conditions: the concept of gex; gender- and sexuality-based violence and digital technology; the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on men and masculinities; and methodological challenges arising with the growth of quantitative studies

  • Honouring Jo Woodiwiss

    Kate Smith, Brid Featherstone et al.ARTICLEJournal of Gender Studies2023

    Jo was an accomplished feminist socialist academic with a background in women’s and gender studies. She completed her PhD (funded by the ESRC) in the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of

  • The place and potential of crisis/crises in critical studies on men and masculinities

    Open AccessJ HearnARTICLEGlobal Discourse2022Cited by: 7References: 18

    This article derives from considering the interrelations of two sets of long-term international work: that on interdisciplinary crisis studies and that on critical studies on men and masculinities. More specifically, it interrogates the place and potential of crisis and crises in the politics and problematics of men and masculinities, including how crisis can be a driver of critical studies on men and masculinities. Further to this, four main for…

  • Bouncing off Ove: Old men's readings of the novel A Man Called Ove as a cultural representation of ageing masculinity

    Open AccessLinn J Sandberg, Karin Lövgren et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging Studies2022Cited by: 4References: 3

    In recent years, there has been a rise in portrayals of greying protagonists in popular fiction, often featuring older people in humorous and heart-warming stories. An emerging genre within this literature is the "geezer and grump lit", a genre where older people are active protagonists, and while often portrayed as grumpy "'usually turn out to have a heart of gold'" (Swinnen, 2019). A notable example of a book in this genre is the internationall…

  • Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory

    Open AccessJ Hearn, Sofia Strid et al.ARTICLETheory and Society2022Cited by: 3References: 70

    This paper critically interrogates the usefulness of the concept of violence regimes for social politics, social analysis, and social theory. In the first case, violence regimes address and inform politics and policy, that is, social politics, both around various forms of violence, such as gender-based violence, violence against women, anti-lesbian, gay and transgender violence, intimate partner violence, and more widely in terms of social and re…

  • David H. J. Morgan (1937–2020)

    J HearnARTICLENORMA2021

    Illustration: University of Manchester; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZkTrZJ4AaE. It is with very great sadness that I write on the recent death on 17 June 2020 of David H. J. Morgan, Professor

  • Upskirting,” Homosociality, and Craft man ship: A Thematic Analysis of Perpetrator and Viewer Interactions

    Open AccessM Hall, J Hearn et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2021Cited by: 1References: 17

    Upskirting" is the action or practice of surreptitiously taking photographs or videos up a female's skirt or dress. In the United Kingdom, it is an offense. However, internationally, laws are uneven. Understanding how perpetrators account for their actions becomes an important question. Here, we present the findings of our thematic analysis of posts on the "upskirting" website, The Candid Zone. Our analysis shows that posters and respondents fram…

  • States of violence: Exploring welfare state regimes as violence regimes by developing a violence regimes index

    Open AccessSofia Strid, Anne Laure Humbert et al.ARTICLEJournal of European Social Policy2021Cited by: 4References: 13

    The aim of the article is to examine if and how the welfare state regime typology translates into a violence regime typology in a European context. It builds on the concept of violence regimes (Strid et al. 2017; Hearn et al. 2020) to empirically examine whether the production of interpersonal violence constitutes distinct regimes, and how these correspond (or not) with welfare regimes, gender regimes, and with other comparative metrics on violen…

  • Motherhood 2.0: Slow Progress for Career Women and Motherhood within the ‘Finnish Dream’

    Open AccessCharlotta Niemistö, J Hearn et al.ARTICLEWork Employment and Society2021Cited by: 12References: 19

    This article investigates the gendered dynamics of motherhood and careers, as voiced by professionals in the knowledge-intensive business sector in Finland. It is informed by the CIAR method through 81 iterative, in-depth interviews with 23 women and 19 men. Among the women respondents with no children, one child, or two children, three dominant forms of discursive talk emerge: ‘It takes two to tango’, ‘It’s all about time management’ and ‘Good m…

  • Marina Hughson (Blagojević) (1958-2020)

    J HearnARTICLENORMA2021

    Illustration: Marina Hughson public CV; https://sefem.org/. It is with tremendous sadness that I am writing of the death of Marina Hughson on 6 June 2020, following a short illness. Marina was a so

  • Hollow femininities: The Emerging Faces of Neoliberal Masculinities

    Open AccessGreg Wolfman, J Hearn et al.ARTICLENORMA2021Cited by: 8References: 48

    Through the latter half of the twentieth century, the commodification of men’s lifestyles has grown apace, such that men’s lifestyles in the global North are routinely sold for the various ways they present alternative forms of masculinity. Simultaneously, men’s growing participation in the service sector, as well as an emphasis on cultures of care in office work, suggest that men’s labour has faced similar changes. Drawing on one interview and t…

  • Interrogating silent privileges across the work–life boundaries and careers of high-intensity knowledge professionals

    Open AccessCharlotta Niemistö, J Hearn et al.ARTICLEQualitative Research in…2020

    Purpose Privilege is often silent, invisible and not made explicit, and silence is a key question for theorizing on organizations. This paper examines interrelations between privilege and silence for relatively privileged professionals in high-intensity knowledge businesses (KIBs). Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on 112 interviews in two rounds of interviews using the collaborative interactive action research method. The analysis foc…

  • From Gender Regimes to Violence Regimes: Re-thinking the Position of Violence

    Open AccessJ Hearn, Sofia Strid et al.ARTICLESocial Politics International…2020Cited by: 8References: 13

    What happens when we focus primarily on violence as a central question—either within the gender regime approach or by making violence regime an approach in itself? The article first interrogates gender regimes theoretically and empirically through a focus on violence, and then develops violence regimes as a fruitful approach, conceptualizing violence as inequality in its own right, and a means to deepen the analysis of gender relations, gender do…