In a recent theoretical contribution to the emerging domain of ecological masculinities, Paul Pulé and Martin Hultman suggest that the path to deeper, broader care must begin with men’s acknowledgement of their attachment to the “glocal commons.” They uphold the conservationist masculinity of indigenous men all across the world who are primordially immersed in a symbiotic relationship with the non-human environment (77–79). This chapter explores the culture of the indigenous Angami society of Nagaland through an analysis of Easterine Kire’s novel Sky Is My Father to argue that in spite of their inscription in a monistic world-view, the nexus of material needs, structural inequities, and marginalization in which indigenous men of India form their relationship with nature has considerable impacts on their potential to exhibit broad, unconditional care for all life. Among the multiple socio-political barriers that may inhibit the genesis of eco-masculinities, this chapter focuses on two aspects: indigenous men’s subjective relationship with nature embedded in oppressive material realities and the cultural conditioning of indigenous women that limits their potential to articulate protest against the hegemonic gender performance of men. The chapter concludes that eco-masculinity studies need a more eclectic and inclusive framework relevant to indigenous communities in order to be implemented in society.

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Problematizing Indigenous Eco-masculinity Through Easterine Kire’s Sky Is My Father

  • Atreyee Chakraborty

摘要

In a recent theoretical contribution to the emerging domain of ecological masculinities, Paul Pulé and Martin Hultman suggest that the path to deeper, broader care must begin with men’s acknowledgement of their attachment to the “glocal commons.” They uphold the conservationist masculinity of indigenous men all across the world who are primordially immersed in a symbiotic relationship with the non-human environment (77–79). This chapter explores the culture of the indigenous Angami society of Nagaland through an analysis of Easterine Kire’s novel Sky Is My Father to argue that in spite of their inscription in a monistic world-view, the nexus of material needs, structural inequities, and marginalization in which indigenous men of India form their relationship with nature has considerable impacts on their potential to exhibit broad, unconditional care for all life. Among the multiple socio-political barriers that may inhibit the genesis of eco-masculinities, this chapter focuses on two aspects: indigenous men’s subjective relationship with nature embedded in oppressive material realities and the cultural conditioning of indigenous women that limits their potential to articulate protest against the hegemonic gender performance of men. The chapter concludes that eco-masculinity studies need a more eclectic and inclusive framework relevant to indigenous communities in order to be implemented in society.