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This book explores the lived, embodied experiences of aging men as a counterpoint to the weary stereotypes often imposed on them. Conventionally, in Western cultures, they are seen as inevitably in decline. The book challenges these distorted images through a detailed analysis of aging men's life stories.

This book challenges prevailing negative representations of aging men, which often revolve around a vision of inevitable decline due to retirement from the labour market. It offers an in-depth exploration of their lived, embodied experiences that takes advantage of extended interviews and commentaries. The diversity of aging men's experiences are investigated and include: different levels of physical competence; coming to terms with Parkinson's disease; the sexual practices of heterosexual and homosexual aging men; the caring strategies of aging male caregivers looking after their chronically ill partners, and; the survival strategies of ethnically diverse and working class men. Exploring Aging Masculinities reveals that the aging process can provoke changes in the masculine identities of older men. The loss of social power and status, physical capacity and sexual potency in some aging men often leads to critical reassessment, life review and transitions. This book will be of great interest to those working in the sociology of aging and social policy, as well as professionals working with older men.

In this detailed investigation of 'masculine' gendered identity, first published in 1990, David Jackson uses his own personal history to look at the specific ways in which men become 'masculine.' In doing so he examines, but also offers some positive challenges to, the assumed qualities and values of growing up 'manly.' Jackson looks closely at the psychological and social forces active in his own development: relations with his father, violence at school, male banter and joking, sporting activities, boys' comics, and sexual relations. The title is a deliberate blend between life story and critical commentary that makes use of some areas of post-structuralist theory to make visible the social and emotional processes that contribute to one man's life history. With an innovative theoretical approach, this reissue will be of particular value to those interested in the social, psychological and cultural forces that have gone into the historical shaping of men and masculinities

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Dissertation overview 4 Chapter I: Internationally-led statebuilding 8 Section I: The rise of statebuilding 9 Section II: Research question and approach 14 Section III: Conceptualising the research question 21 Chapter conclusion 28 Chapter II: Research Design 30 Section I: Background on Kosovo as a case study 30 Section II: Unit of analysis 41 Section III: Conceptualising the models of distribution 48 Chapter conclusion 54 Chapter III: Measuring clientelism in Kosovo's municipalities 57 Section I: A review of existing measures 58 Section II: 'Operationalising' the clientelist model 61 Section III: Validating the instrument 64 Section IV: Sampling 69 Section V: Ensuring process reliability and validity 71 Chapter Conclusion 75 Chapter IV: Is internationally-led statebuilding futile? The results 77 Section I: The interpretive framework 77 Section II: Municipality scores 82 Section III: Comparing results with other evaluations of progress 88 Chapter conclusion 89 Chapter V: Understanding the clientelist model: Actors, organisations and social ecology 92 Section I: Patrons, Brokers and Clients 93 Section II: Patron-built organisations 101 Section III: Political parties as organisational casing for patron-client networks 106 Section IV: Patron-client networks and social embeddedness 111 Chapter conclusion 121 Chapter VI: The demand-side of statebuilding 126 Section I: Theoretical model and research approach 130 Section II: Overview of vignette research 139 Section III: The logic of the fear of losing out 143 Section IV: The functional logic 148 Section V: The logic of social norms: kin communities and mutual obligations 155 Chapter conclusion 161 Chapter VII: The supply-side of statebuilding 164 Section I: Variables, research design and method 166 Section II: Explaining outcomes: what are the potential factors? 171 Section III: Social accountability 180 Section IV: Democratic competition 186 Section V: Capacity building 191 Chapter Conclusion: the missing variable of local political ...