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Globalization changes masculinities - reshaping the arena in which national and local masculinities are articulated, and transforming the shape of men's lives. Gender becomes one of the chief organizing principles of local, regional and national resistance to globalization, whether expressed in religious or secular, ethnic or national terms. This article examines the ways in which masculinities and globalization are embedded in the emergence of extremist groups on the far right in Europe and the US, with a final discussion of the Islamic world. It discusses the ways in which global political and economic processes affect lower middle-class men in the economic North, and describes several of their political reactions, especially their efforts to restore public and domestic patriarchy. All deploy 'masculinity' as symbolic capital, as an ideological resource (1) to understand and explicate their plight; (2) as a rhetorical device to problematize the identities of those against whom they believe themselves fighting; and (3) as a recruitment device to entice other, similarly situated young men, to join them.

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