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Australian dystopia and the (m)anthropocene: future-thinking men and masculinities in The Animals in That Country (McKay 2020) and Juice (Winton 2024)
Norma : International Journal for Masculinity Studies, Vol.First online
21/10/2025
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Abstract
This transdisciplinary paper addresses two recent dystopian Australian novels responding to (m)anthropocentric crises, examining imaginary futures for men and masculinities. Using hegemonic masculinities, sociological utopianism and ecofeminism to interrogate ‘thought experiments’ in relation to gender, the work considers the novels’ epistemological foundations, form, framing and futures to establish the usefulness of dystopias in (m)anthropocentric future-thinking regarding gender. Drawing on a recent argument for the usefulness of dystopias in communicating social complexity, it centralises the research-base of these narratives, and their affective capacities to communicate dynamics of agency and structure. The dystopias of McKay (2020, The Animals in That Country) and Winton (2024, Juice) are critiqued through intersecting anthroparchal relations, including masculine domination, human-exceptionalism and colonial theft. These Australian dystopias responding to the anthropocene provide a pathway for expanding future-thinking relating to gender, specifically in the formations for men and masculinities, an area thus far relatively neglected in posthuman constructions of futures of egalitarian equivalences.
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- Title
- Australian dystopia and the (m)anthropocene: future-thinking men and masculinities in The Animals in That Country (McKay 2020) and Juice (Winton 2024)
- Creators
- Josephine Browne - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Norma : International Journal for Masculinity Studies, Vol.First online
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 21
- Identifiers
- 991013325425102368
- Copyright
- © 2025 The Author(s).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article