The concept of subculture is an invaluable tool to frame the study of non-normative and marginal cultures for social and cultural scholars.
This international collection uncovers the significance of meaning-making in the processes of defining, studying and analyzing subcultural phenomena.
Examining various dimensions of interpretivism, the book focuses on overarching concerns related to interpretation as well as day-to-day considerations that affect researchers and members interpretations of subcultural phenomena. It reveals how and why people use specific conceptual frames or methods and how those shape their interpretations of everyday realities.
This is an unprecedented contribution to the field, explaining the interpretive processes through which people make sense of subcultural phenomena.
Arvustused
With a refreshing focus on reflection, interpretation, and subjectivity throughout, this fascinating international collection explores the meanings that lie behind the living and researching of subcultural identities. Essential reading for students and researchers alike. Paul Hodkinson, University of Surrey
Part 1: Approaching Interpretive Practice
1. Making Sense of Subcultures: Interpretive Practice and/in Subcultural
Theory - J. Patrick Williams
2. Subculture, Scene, Lifestyle, or Movement? Conceptualizing Straight Edge
from Insider and Academic Perspectives - Ross Haenfler
3. Ghosts in the Machine: (Post)subculture and the Problem of Contemporary
Youth - Andy Bennett and Daniel Bennett
Part 2: Contextualizing Interpretive Practice
4. No More Heroes: Portuguese Punk and the Notion of Subculture in the Global
South - Paula Guerra
5. Still Crazy After All Those Years: A Trajectory of Discourses on Youth
Subcultures in Korea, from Exclusion to Recognition to Legitimization -
Hyunjoon Shin
6. Interpreting Chinese Punk: From Doing Nothing to Hermit Lifestyle - Jian
Xiao and Xinxin Dong
7. The Dynamic Meaning of Subculture among DIY Indonesian Musicians - Oki
Rahadianto Sutopo
Part 3: Embodying Interpretive Practice
8. Thats Not Punk! Authenticity, Older Punk Women, and the Doing of Punk
Scholarship - Laura Way
9. Lets All Be Friends: Emotional Labor and Insider Research of Punk
Subculture - Stanislav Vysotsky and Donna Manion
10. Intimacy, Exchange, and Friendship as Sensitizing Concepts: Interpreting
and Teaching Subcultures through Ethnographic Fieldwork - Shane Blackman and
Laura Barnett
Part 4: Conclusion
11. Approaching, Contextualizing, and Embodying Interpretive Practice in
Subcultural Studies - J. Patrick Williams and Samuel Judah
J. Patrick Williams is Associate Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University.
