Punk Identities, Punk Utopias

Global Punk and Media

Paula Guerra editor Russ Bestley editor Mike Dines editor Matt Grimes editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Intellect Books

Published:7th Dec '21

£29.50

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Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media seeks to unpack and illuminate punk as a trajectory of ‘timelesness…as a set of diverse but confluent values and appropriations’ that have both reflected and informed an increasingly complex, indefinable social, political and economic setting. Whereas the first two volumes in the series were broadly focused on local punk ‘scenes’ in a disparate range of countries and regions around the world, Punk Identities, Punk Utopias extends that critical enquiry to reflect broader social, political and technological concerns impacting punk scenes around the world, from digital technology and new media to gender, ethnicity, identity and representation. This new volume therefore draws upon the interdisciplinary areas of cultural studies, musicology and social sciences to present an edited text on the notion of identities, ideologies and cultural discourse surrounding contemporary global punk scenes. It is hoped that the books in the Global Punk series will add to the academic discussion of contemporary popular culture, particularly in relation to punk and the critical understanding of transnational and cross-cultural dialogue.

Punk is a global phenomenon and the Global Punk series aims to reflect contemporary scenes around the world since the millennium. Punk and its subsequent variants, from hardcore to post-punk, have always crossed borders and become assimilated within countercultural practices with local, national and regional variations.

Produced in collaboration between the Punk Scholars Network and Intellect Books, the Global Punk book series focuses on the development of contemporary global punk (c. 2000 onwards), reflecting upon its origins, aesthetics, identity, legacy, membership and circulation. Critical approaches draw upon the interdisciplinary areas of (among others) cultural studies, art and design, sociology, musicology and social sciences in order to develop a broad and inclusive picture of punk and punk-inspired subcultural developments around the globe. The series adopts an essentially analytical perspective, raising questions about the dissemination of punk scenes and subcultures and their form, structure and contemporary cultural significance in the daily lives of an increasing number of people around the world.

This book has a genuine crossover appealed. It will be a key resource for established academics, postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. students, as well as being suitable for adoption as an undergraduate student textbook. Suitable courses will include those in the fields of popular...

'An excellent collection of articles that contribute to this growing range of new perspectives on punk around the globe. The collection engages with some of the more contemporary and urgent social and political issues researched through a lens of punk counter culture, offering new insights into the ways in which punk endures as a platform for empowering marginal and marginalized identities. The articles in this volume offer some new interpretations of how punk subculture intersects with more nuanced questions about gender, feminism, ethnicity and specific national scenes and examines, in some instances, how these emergent perspectives are represented in new media and digital technology. [...] Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media offers readers an opportunity to reconsider and re-frame punk as a discourse with surprisingly wide reaching applications.'

-- Anita Raghunath, Punk & Post-Punk

‘This timely addition to the continually growing punk corpus reveals how punk identities are negotiated in a variety of social, economic and cultural realities. It examines how punk paradoxically changes and stays the same. It shows local solutions to global punk issues and provides both sociological and scientific methods and approaches to critically work on, with and through the complexities of punk, in all its manifestations.’

-- Dr Giacomo Botta, University of Helsinki, Finland

The essays in this volume offer some new interpretations of how punk subculture intersects with more specific and nuanced questions about gender, feminism, ethnicity and specific national punk scenes. This chimes with an important undercurrent in contemporary punk studies: namely the growing realisation that, far from being able to define punk or indeed summarise its legacy in a neat way, punk as a discourse is increasingly useful as a ‘elastic’ term that presents researchers from many disciplinary fields with an analytical framework that is challenging, interesting and adaptable.’

-- Dr Anita Raghunath, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

‘Where punk has been about challenging political and cultural fascism on the outside, this book challenges punk itself, diving directly into critical debates around gender identity and inclusion, the maintenance of toxic masculinity and the need to constantly critically re-evaluate the relationship between DIY cultural performance and technology. This is the kind of punk reader we need today. Richly woven with intricate histories that help us make sense of where we have been as we desperately work towards where we need to go. Read deeply, share widely, and cite often.’

-- michael b macdonald, MacEwan University, Ca

ISBN: 9781789384123

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260 pages

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