No more of this macho bullshit’

Drug treatment, place and the reworking of masculinity

Bibliographic Data

ID8962370
AuthorsRobert Wilton (0000-0001-9222-1916, School of Geography & Earth Sciences McMaster University Hamilton ON L8S 4M1 Canada, corresponding author), Geoffrey Deverteuil (0000-0003-3036-9303, School of Geography and Environment University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ), Joshua Evans (0000-0002-4546-9115, Human Geography Centre for Social Science Athabasca University Athabasca AB Canada)
Year2013
Volume39
Issue2
Pages291-303
Publication date2013-08-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tran.12023
OpenAlexW1964085854
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited41

Health geography has largely failed to engage with the topic of masculinity. This absence is surprising for several reasons, not least because health geography has close ties to social geography, where a burgeoning scholarship on masculinity has developed in recent years. In this paper, we contribute to what Thien and Del Casino ( ) envision as a more robust health geography for men. We do so through a detailed analysis of men's experiences within one form of health care setting, drug treatment programmes, drawing on qualitative data from participant observation and interviews at multiple treatment sites. Particular attention is given to understanding the ways in which the delivery of health care is dependent upon treatment programmes’ ability to problematise masculinities associated with the heavy consumption of drugs and alcohol, while concurrently showing men how to practise an alternative model of healthy masculinity. These objectives are accomplished through the structured domesticity of treatment programmes and through intensive relational work aimed at reworking the masculine self

Consumption (sociology · Masculinity · Participant observation · Political science · Qualitative research · Scholarship · Social science · Social worlds · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law

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