SECOND: you are part of a team advising the United Nations unit that covers your assigned WHO region. Each member is the “expert” on their country and will share their expertise within their group to prepare a regional understanding of masculinities issues in your assigned region. Prepare a comparative regional analysis examining the commonalities and differences in the issues arising across the region. Discuss and agree on one or several masculinities issues that are relevant across your region.

 

THIRD: research your regional social issue thoroughly. Follow any references to it in the media. Discuss, among all the members of your group, your overall, collective views about this topic, what it entails, what it means, and what its impacts are on that region. (Note that some countries in the region might not fit the common regional trend, these cases can help you to illustrate the diversity within the region.)

 

FOURTH: use your assigned Padlet to organise your virtual gallery exhibit. All members of your group must be involved in this process. Make sure everyone participates; this is a requirement of this exercise. Your virtual exhibit introduces visitors to current issues on masculinities studies on a topic of your interest. Please discuss your ideas with me in advance. (See next page for guidelines about Padlet).

 

 

FIFTH: Remember that the whole idea of the project is to present a virtual tour to your audience on issues of cultural expressions of your pressing topic. It is required that you connect your presentation to some concepts or ideas discussed in class (e.g. “This image represents ideas of the manosphere because…”; “This clip shows the notion of gender scripts for young men…”; “This image resonates the study among young men in Mozambique by author X because…”). You can also raise some questions or challenges that your gallery raises to the field.

 

POST 2: Regional Context, provide a short background and contextualization of the topic in your region and assigned countries. You can present a graphic comparing the situation of your regional issue across your various countries. DO NOT present individual presentations for each country. Keep in mind that your countries are your case studies intended to illustrate the situation of your topic in your region. This is the time to talk about commonalities and differences across your region.

 

POST 3: Target population(s), you can briefly describe the situation of a particular group(s) that is important for your chosen topic (e.g. young women of colour; undocumented populations; sexual minorities; married women; older people; etc.).

 

POSTS 4, 5, 6, etc: Use these posts to illustrate the situation of your regional topic (e.g. news, media coverage, clips about a mass media campaign (successful or a failed one), covers of magazines, newspapers, documentaries, advertisement, movies and TV shows, short films or trailers, quotations, etc.).  Be creative and innovative!

 

POST Y: Concluding statement, briefly summarize the key aspects across your region. Provide concluding thoughts about your topic in your region. This could be in the form of policy recommendations, research needed, the highlights of the key aspects you presented in your group project, or a question for the class.

Optional: Post 11th: Bibliography
You can create an additional post to include all the bibliography your group used to develop your gallery.
Please follow the guidelines on Academic Integrity and avoiding plagiarism HERE.