Subcultures

Hybridizing Hip-hop in Diaspora: Young British South Asian Men Negotiating Black-inflected Identities

by David Drissel

Subterranean Sources of Juvenile Delinquency In China: Evidence From Birth Cohort Surveys

by David Drissel

Leftist Constructs

by Diana Pho

Upcoming article for Overland Magazine

"Diana M Pho on steampunk and progressive politics" "Diana M Pho on steampunk and progressive politics"

MMP WITTR paper - Seifert and Murray

by Amelia-Roísín Seifert

Hacia la comprensión de la identidad plancha: la imaginería producida por Nike

by Joaquín Venturini

Disponible en CD del Congreso Latinoamericano de Investigadores en Comunicación, ALAIC 2012 Montevideo.

Esta ponencia tiene como propósito presentar algunos aspectos de nuestra tesina de grado “Entre pipas nike y cumbia... more Esta ponencia tiene como propósito presentar algunos aspectos de nuestra tesina de grado “Entre pipas nike y cumbia villera: hacia la comprensión de la identidad plancha”. Nos focalizaremos en la imaginería producida por Nike para crear una imagen de marca deseable, imaginería que entendemos corresponde a lo que Jean Baudillard ha llamado “hiperrealidad”. Veremos que los elementos hiperreales de la imaginería no bastan por sí mismos para explicar la preferencia de los planchas por Nike, ya que Adidas también los utiliza. Arribaremos a la hipótesis de que un factor decisivo para esta preferencia es la imagen que ha ligado históricamente a los más famosos jugadores de basketball norteamericanos, todos ellos afroamericanos, a la marca, y así contribuir a la inversión del estigma del color de piel, que, en sinergia con el imaginario hiperreal o tecnológico, convierten a Nike en un símbolo ultra moderno.

On the myth of a general national culture: Making visible specific cultural characteristics of learners in different educational contexts in Germany

by Thomas Richter

Richter, T. & Adelsberger, H. (2012). On the myth of a general national culture: Making visible specific cultural characterist-ics of learners in different educational contexts in Germany. In Sudweeks F., Hrachovec, H., & Ess, C. (Eds.), CATaC'12 Proceedings (Aarhus, Denmark): Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, School of In-formation Technology, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia, forthcoming (June 2012)

The Paper is published under the CC license; thanks to the editors that I additionally can place it here for the public

The concept of a few values that can characteristically explain all units of culture (Schneider 1968, p.1-2) within... more The concept of a few values that can characteristically explain all units of culture (Schneider 1968, p.1-2) within any national context generally sounds promising. In order to take design-oriented decisions on culture-specific research questions, such characteristic values, particularly if already determined for many countries, would allow a massive reduction of effort. However, we were unsure if the contexts of academic and professional education allowed the adoption of such values without loosing the characteristic information, which are crucial for designing context-sensitive e-Learning contents. In both educational scenarios we investigated the subcultures ‘faculty’, ‘university’, ‘enterprise’, and ‘nation’. In this paper, we exemplarily discuss our study’s results regarding one selected topic from our questionnaire, i. e. the ‘role of the lecturer’. Actually, we found major differences between the investigated scenarios. Thus, we came to the conclusion that in our context, adapting, e. g. Hofstede’s national values, would not lead to a learning design that takes the context-specific cultural differences into consideration.

When the Party Comes Down: The CPGB and Youth Culture, 1976-1991

by Evan Smith

Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History, 4, 2012 (in press)

Reading the Corinthian Veils through Hijabs and Habits

by Janelle Peters

In: Intercultural Readings of 1-2 Corinthians: Race, Ritual, Food, and Community. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013. Presented at SBL 2009.

In this paper, I use anthropological insight gained from veiling practices in Catholic and Muslim subcultures in the... more In this paper, I use anthropological insight gained from veiling practices in Catholic and Muslim subcultures in the United States to provide a new interpretation of 1 Corinthians 11:1-16.

Please contact me if you would like to read the manuscript submitted to the publisher.

'We FBA Now': Community Building and the Furry Basketball Association

by Sean Ahern

This paper was first presented at the Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture. This is a draft of a longer paper that I am working on for a compilation from the Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture held at Bowling Green State University from March 30 to April 1.

Steampunk's Legacy: Collecting and exhibiting the future of yesterday

by Jeanette Atkinson

Forthcoming (2012) in Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology, Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia Miller and Ken Dvorak (eds).  Lanham: Scarecrow Press

In creating a striking visual and material culture, set within an alternative historical timeline, steampunks are... more In creating a striking visual and material culture, set within an alternative historical timeline, steampunks are challenging traditional representations of history and what constitutes “authentic” heritage. This, potentially, contests the curatorial voice within Western museums. This chapter engages with these challenges through examining recent exhibitions of steampunk art and material culture and encounters between curators and steampunks, with the aim of furthering the understanding of the power relations between museums and counter-communities such as steampunks.

Young Voices - An Applied Theatre Method Aiming to Bridge the Gap Between Youth and Adults

by yiota demetriou

Thesis for MA by Research at SANM - University of Hull, 2010-2011

This dissertation focuses on an applied theatre project, Young Voices that has attempted to develop a method, which... more This dissertation focuses on an applied theatre project, Young Voices that has attempted to develop a method, which inquires how performance forms can facilitate youth inclusion. Issues related to young people have been discussed extensively throughout time and within many disciplines. Stanley Cohen (1972), J.J Arnett (1999), Sharon Nichols and Thomas Good (2004) and Monica Barry (2005), have examined the ‘anxieties’ that are often associated with the perceived image of young people in society and how these may often lead to their social exclusion. This method is to be used by youth workers with their role as ‘intercessors’ between young people and the adults that surround them (i.e. their parents, guardians, teachers); it adopts Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) ethos, uses elements of his Forum Theatre (FT) workshop techniques and the theory/technique of verbatim theatre. The project’s research process is in the form of applied and verbatim theatre workshops; performance presentation and a performance lecture addressed to youth workers. The method looks at increasing and facilitating communication between various isolated adolescent groups through applied theatre using various ‘Boalian’ workshop techniques and FT to identify the participants ‘oppressions’. It intends at facilitating communication through applied theatre and verbatim theatre between youth and youth workers, by capturing the participants ‘oppressions’ and presenting them to an audience of their peers and youth workers. And it aims at facilitating communication through the combination of applied theatre and verbatim theatre with the attempt of beginning to bridge the gap amongst young people and the adults around them, through a recommended step by suggesting the involvement of the participant’s surrounding adults. The Young Voices method has been developed from the collaboration of several youth groups from around Scarborough and its district. The complete process attempts to assist teenagers in discussing their concerns from their own perspectives towards empowering them and raising awareness about how their opinions should be required for matters that concern them.

Are the Kids United? The Communist Party of Great Britain, Rock Against Racism and the Politics of Youth Culture

by Evan Smith

Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 5/2, Fall 2010,  pp. 85-117

White Appropriation of Reggae Culture in Ireland

by Greg O'Reilly

This paper is concerned with examining why; (in what was until recently a predominantly mono-cultural society) some... more This paper is concerned with examining why; (in what was until recently a predominantly mono-cultural society) some individuals in Ireland became interested in the overtly black musical form reggae and its accompanying culture. We begin by examining some of the literature with regard to white appropriation of black music. We then trace the history of reggae music from its roots in 1950’s Jamaica across the Atlantic to Britain arguing that to examine reggae appropriation in Ireland; we must first examine the Jamaican-British nexus. We examine how the music progressed in Britain along two distinct trajectories; firstly within mainstream culture, and secondly and more importantly for this for this paper within British subculture. We then move to our ethnographic section. Here we explore the findings of several interviews we conducted with individuals involved in reggae subculture in Ireland. Lastly we draw some interesting conclusions from our research which we present at the end of this paper.

Queer temporalities: The significance of ‘music scene’ participation in the social identities of middle-aged queers

by Jodie Taylor

Published in the journal "Sociology" October 2010

During the last decade in particular, the scope of queer scholarship has expanded. Queer readings, theories and... more During the last decade in particular, the scope of queer scholarship has expanded. Queer readings, theories and problematics now pervade multiple sites of cultural and sociological thinking, reaching beyond the specificities of gender and sexuality and their attendant politics. While there is still important work to be done in these areas, thinking beyond the sexual act allows for an understanding of ‘queer’ through culture and as lifestyle. Here, I relate this specifically to music scene participation and middle age by exploring the significance of music and dance-based activities in the lives of queer people who do not perform their age in accordance with heteronormative conventions of social propriety and thus do not conform to desirable heteronormative temporalities. The concept of ‘queer temporality’ is not new, however this article demonstrates the relationship of musical time to this temporal scheme thus offering an additional perspective on queer time.

Taylor, J. (2010). Queer temporalities: The significance of ‘music scene’ participation in the social identities of middle-aged queers. Sociology, 44(5). 893–907.

Scenes and sexualities: Queerly reframing the music scenes perspective

by Jodie Taylor

Taylor, J. (2012). Scenes and sexualities: Queerly reframing the music scenes perspective. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 26(1), 143–156.

Historically, research on music cultures has favoured examination of the subcultural affiliations of the youthful... more Historically, research on music cultures has favoured examination of the subcultural affiliations of the youthful urban white working-class heterosexual male. While the prominence of this subject has since been contested by a number of scholars, even the most celebrated forms of scholarship in this area continue to work within heteronormative discourses. In fact, omitted considerations of non-heterosexualities and sexual styles are a stark reminder of the frequent invisibility of the queer subject, not only in relation to much subcultural and post-subcultural theory, but also in relation to broader discussions about musical and extra-musical style generally. This paper addresses these omissions. Specifically, it reviews existing music scenes literature demonstrating how, as a theoretical concept, scene has emerged out of the reductiveness and rigidity of subcultural theory. It examines work on musically mediated performances of sexuality, identifying the need for more work around sexualities and music scenes in everyday contexts. It proposes how and by whom such work can be done. And it details the integration of queer theories into the music scenes perspective, showing how ‘scene’ can accommodate a more flexible approach to queer collective formations which is necessary for everyday musically mediated queer subjectivities to be understood.

“Gagarin and the Rave Kids: Transforming power, identity, and aesthetics in the post-Soviet nightlife.”

by Alexei Yurchak Алексей Юрчак

in Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society Since Gorbachev. Adele Barker, ed. Duke University Press, 1999.

"A Parasite From Outer Space: How Sergei Kurekhin proved that Lenin was a mushroom"

by Alexei Yurchak Алексей Юрчак

Slavic Review, Spring 2011

"Necro-Utopia: The Politics of Indistinction and the Aesthetics of the Non-Soviet"

by Alexei Yurchak Алексей Юрчак

with a discussion and a response
Current Anthropology, v. 49, n. 2, 2008.

Informal communities of Russian artists and intellectuals during the late Soviet years practiced a “politics of... more Informal communities of Russian artists and intellectuals during the late Soviet years practiced a “politics of indistinction.” They claimed to be uninterested in anything political and differentiated themselves from ordinary “Soviet citizens,” whether supporters of or dissenters from the system. However, their apolitical lifestyles and pursuits contributed greatly to creating the conditions for making the collapse of the Soviet state imminent. Close examination of one such group, the Necrorealists, raises a set of questions that are central for an understanding of momentous and unexpected social transformations, and of the concept of "politics" more broadly

"Post-Post-Communist Sincerity: Pioneers, Cosmonauts, and Other Soviet Heroes Born Today"

by Alexei Yurchak Алексей Юрчак

in "What Is Soviet Now?", Thomas Lahusen and Peter Solomon, eds. Berlin: Verlag, 2008.

"Suspending the Political: Late Soviet Artistic Experiments at the Margins of the State""

by Alexei Yurchak Алексей Юрчак

Poetics Today, vol. 29, n. 4, 2008.