North–South dialogues: reflecting on working transnationally with young men, masculinities and gender justice

Dialoguing across national borders and specifically global North-South centres and has increasingly been viewed as a way to enhance critical and feminist studies engagement with men and masculinities. This article draws on narratives by a group of researchers in South Africa and Finland who have been in a transnational research project that included a strong focus on young men, and gender and sexual justice. The piece provides an account of the and complex experiences and dynamics involved in transnational research , particularly within the framework on historical and continued inequalities the global North and South. While obvious benefits are raised, this also foregrounds a range of challenges and constraints involved in research collaboration within this field and possibly many others. Key gleaned from this analysis of reported experiences and thoughts include the of careful, considered and critical reflexivity at all moments and at all , both in interpersonal and intergroup relations, as well as in public representation collaborative work.