Lecture
Ecological masculinities as exit politics at the end of Holocene

Toxic-, petro- and industrial/breadwinner masculinities are all widespread critical concepts highlighting the configuration of bodies and patriarchy with misogynistic, racist and climate denial discourses. How can critical and engaged research help us exit from such destructive ecocidal path at the end of Holocene? This seminar suggests and analyse how ecological masculinities praxes can be made attractive, nurtured, collective and transformative enough – without being co-opted by todays far right authoritarianism or ecomodern capitalism.

About the speaker

Hultman is professor of Sociology and Chair in Science, Technology & Society (STS), University of Gothenburg. His interdisciplinary contemporary & historical research deals with human existence on earth together with other species. The research asks questions such as: How can we shape just and caring societies within the planetary boundaries of the earth?

Among Hultman's most recent publications we find the co-authored books: Feminist Climate Policy in Industrialised States: A Gender-Just Climate Emergency Response (2025); Climate Obstruction. How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet (2022); Men, Masculinities, and Earth Contending with the (m) Anthropocene (2021); Ecological Masculinities (2018).

A joint seminar

The seminar is a joint collaboration between the The Gender Collegium, and the Climate Collegium, has invited Martin Hultman, professor of Sociology from Gothenburg Univeity.