Youth Subcultures

Pan-Islamic Networks of the Apocalypse: Mobilizing Diasporic Muslim Youth on Facebook

by David Drissel

Hip-Hop Hybridity for a Glocalized World: African and Muslim Diasporic Discourses in French Rap Music

by David Drissel

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

by David Drissel

Urban Schism, Social Strains: Exploring the Collective Identities of Youth in Contemporary Belfast

by David Drissel

Online Jihadism for the Hip-Hop Generation: Mobilizing Diasporic Muslim Youth In Cyberspace

by David Drissel

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

by David Drissel

Anarchist Punks Resisting Gentrification: Countercultural Contestations of Space in the New Berlin

by David Drissel

Reinventing Rebellion: Alternative Youth Subcultures In Post-Tiananmen China

by David Drissel

Policing the Roads: Traffic Cops, 'Boy Racers' and Anti-Social Behaviour

by Karen Lumsden

'Policing and Society' (forthcoming)

This paper explores the policing and regulation of young motorists known in the United Kingdom as ‘boy racers’. It... more This paper explores the policing and regulation of young motorists known in the United Kingdom as ‘boy racers’. It demonstrates how police officers’ definitional decisions in relation to driving behaviours were influenced by a range of exogenous and endogenous factors, which subsequently shaped the landscape of enforcement and interactions with the community and drivers. A shift over time in the nature of the problem due to urban regeneration, innovations in the technology of the motor car, and the availability of anti-social behaviour legislation impacted upon the policing of urban space. The strategies employed in order to police the culture and the related urban space were reminiscent of a deeper policing tradition wherein managing incivilities and local problems is part of the community policing perspective. Data is presented from semi-structured interviews with police, residents, and ‘boy racers’, and ethnographic fieldwork with the drivers in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Breaking expectations: Imagined affinities in mediated youth cultures

by Mary Fogarty

Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies

Volume 26, Issue 3, 2012
Special Issue: Mediated Youth Cultures
Editors: Andy Bennett & Brady Robards

This article examines the mediated encounters experienced by participants in hip hop and funk dance styles especially... more This article examines the mediated encounters experienced by participants in hip hop and funk dance styles especially breaking or b-boying/b-girling. It introduces the concept of imagined affinities to describe the spectrum of these encounters, which are enacted through mediated texts, or by travels through new places. Using interviews with dancers as a guide, I argue that artefacts made, distributed and circulated by dancers help to produce perceptions of commonalities between them. The nature of the process of rapid mediatisation, which has taken place during the past few decades, and its subsequent impact on breaking or b-boying/b-girling, are considered here through a concerted effort to historicize shifts in practice and experience. I examine the historical moment when homemade videotapes began to proliferate in the cultural practices of breaking, providing a source for the values and codes of hip hop culture. At that time, dancers on tour, who created the videos, celebrated the local contexts of other dancers from around the world while simultaneously showing a determination to appreciate breaking through its own practices and formats, even as these practices were becoming rapidly transformed and expanded through international networks.

Growing up nationalist: An emerging risk and a lesson to be learned

by Jelena Petrovic

Awarded essay. St.Gallen Wings of Excellence Award (1st prize)

Author examines the risk of youth nationalist movements in post-conflict states of the Western Balkans analyzing... more Author examines the risk of youth nationalist movements in post-conflict states of the Western Balkans analyzing factors influencing youth nationalists upbringing and proposing 4 principles on which adequate response should be built (SEEC - System, Education, Equality and Cooperation/Coordination)

Covert distinction: how hipsters practice food-based resistance strategies in the production of identity

by James M. Cronin

Co-authored with PhD supervisors Dr. Mary McCarthy & Dr. Alan Collins, published in Consumption, Markets & Culture

This paper reveals the processes by which food is used to express resistance to the mainstream and perform identity... more This paper reveals the processes by which food is used to express resistance to the mainstream and perform identity work within the hipster community of consumption. Based on the findings of a qualitative investigation, several resistance strategies involving food emerged: Vegetarian choices; Brand choices and avoidances; and Decommodification practices. We discuss how these strategies are framed by hipsters' discursive distaste for the commercial food marketing system but are, in practice, operationalised as subtle ways to achieve proper representation of their collective identity within the marketplace. Mundane consumption emerges as motor-force in allowing these consumers to surreptitiously maintain distinction and to protect their within-group identity from mainstream co-optation. We conclude by suggesting that the inconspicuous nature of mundane consumables such as food and alcohol products allows for idiosyncratic shared community performances that are covert and difficult for broader social currents to detect and co-opt.

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)

Call2_Project Rendering the Real

by Sireita Mullings

Project Rendering the Real, is calling for participants for an interactive symposium and exhibition by project titled the “Fourth Moment”.

March 22nd – April 27th 2012.

www.renderingthereal.com

The intention is to interrogate the visual representations of art practitioners and their project participants, by way... more The intention is to interrogate the visual representations of art practitioners and their project participants, by way of papers, presentations, workshops and artwork.

The exhibition and symposium will run between
March 22nd – April 27th 2012.

Visit www.renderingthereal.com for more information.

Hard to Reach Communities: Living in the UK, and Issues Facing British Muslims of Kashmiri Heritage Born & Bred in the UK

by Owais Rajput

In my presentation I will focus on British Muslim Communities living in UK; my main focus will be on the British local... more In my presentation I will focus on British Muslim Communities living in UK; my main focus will be on the British local community with Kashmiri heritage, as most of the time they are labelled in the media as “Home Grown Radicalised” Muslims, even if they are the fourth & fifth generation born & bred in UK.

I will also focus on Processes to Radicalisation in UK, in local communities, again particularly in the Kashmiri community.

I will also focus on design and delivery processes so far used by authorities in de-radicalisation processes and the results so far, and why we need to change those design and delivery processes, especially when we focus on the British Diaspora with Kashmiri heritage, the fourth & fifth generation born & bred in the UK.

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.

'The dark side of Naomily': Skins, fan texts and contested genres

by Deborah Hunn

Published in Continuum, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2012.

In 2009, Series 3 of the youth-focused British TV drama Skins won widespread praise from fans and critics for its... more In 2009, Series 3 of the youth-focused British TV drama Skins won widespread praise from fans and critics for its handling of the coming out story of two teenage girls, Emily and Naomi – known in both fan and official discourse alike as ‘Naomily’. However, despite, the Skins' productions team's commitment to dialogue with their youth audience – deemed central to maintaining ‘brand values’ of authenticity and marked by the use of young scriptwriters, by attempts to draw on input from Naomily fans via interactive and collaborative opportunities, and by intertextual plays on the Naomily fan text aesthetic – fan reactions to the recently aired Series 4 have been mixed, leading to heated debate on discussion boards, (‘You've ruined it’) and resistant responses in fan texts. Focusing on genre as a contested site in representations of sexuality and desire in contemporary read/write youth culture and on the generative and dialogical potential of intersections (including collaboration and contestation) between authorized producers and fan creators, as well as the problematic power relations that underpin it, this paper critically applies Derek Johnson's recent concept of ‘fan-tagonism’ to explore the creative tensions between the Skins writing team and Naomily fans.

Формирование ценностных ориентиров молодежи в неформальных группах (Formation of Values Among Youth in Informal Groups)

by Ekaterina (Katya) Pechenkina

Published in collection of articles presented at the conference 'Directions of contemporary civilisation development', Saratov State Technical University, 2003, ISBN: 5-94942-002-1'

La construcción mediática de la alternatividad

by Héctor Villarreal

essay
Revista Digital Universitaria, vol. 8, núm. 3, 2007

La construcción mediática de la alternatividad
Resumen:
La rebeldía característica de los estilos de vida... more La construcción mediática de la alternatividad
Resumen:
La rebeldía característica de los estilos de vida paramusicales de las tribus urbanas y las culturas juveniles ha perdido su guerra antisistema tanto por la participación de sus héroes en las industrias culturales a cambio del éxito económico y la fama, como por la adopción desvirtuada de sus manifestaciones por parte de miembros de las élites contra los que originalmente manifiestan su repudio, así como la socialización vuelta moda de sus disfraces y símbolos de grupo distintivos.
Palabras clave: música rock / industrias culturales / identidad cultural / tribus urbanas / cultura juvenil

The Mediatic performance of the alternativity
Abstract:
The characteristic rebels of the paramusical life styles of the urban tribes and the youth cultures has lost its war anti-establishment for the participation of their heroes in the cultural industries to change of the economic success and became celebrities, as well as by the fake adoption of their demonstrations on the part of members of the elites against those which originally express their repudiation, as well as the return socialization mode of their costumes and symbols of distinctive group.
Keywords: rock music / cultural industries / cultural identities / urban tribes / youth culture