Full Description
This volume critically examines 'subculture' in a variety of Australian contexts, exploring the ways in which the terrain of youth cultures and subcultures has changed over the past two decades and considering whether 'subculture' still works as a viable conceptual framework for studying youth culture. Richly illustrated with concrete case studies, the book is thematically organised into four sections addressing i) theoretical concerns and global debates over the continued usefulness of subculture as a concept; ii) the important place of 'belonging' in subcultural experience and the ways in which belonging is played out across an array of youth cultures; iii) the gendered experiences of young men and women and their ways of navigating subcultural participation; and iv) the ethical and methodological considerations that arise in relation to researching and teaching youth culture and subculture. Bringing together the latest interdisciplinary research to combine theoretical considerations with recent empirical studies of subcultural experience, Youth Cultures and Subcultures will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences.
Contents
Introduction: Youth Culture Research in Australia Part I Theoretical Matters 1 Australian Subcultures: Reality or Myth? 2 Youth Studies and the Problem of Structure and Agency: Foucault vs Marx, Tait vs Sercombe, Beck vs Bourdieu, Woodman vs Threadgold vs Roberts 3 Global Youth Culture and Dynamic Social Contexts 4 Holding It All Together: Researching Time, Culture and Belonging After 'Subcultures' 5 (Sub)Cultural Capital, DIY Careers and Transferability: Towards Maintaining 'Reproduction' when Using Bourdieu in Youth Culture Research 6 Learning to Be Otherwise: Ethnicity and the Pedagogic Space of Youthful Subjectivities Youth Cultures and Subcultures Part II The Place of Belonging 7 The Moral Economy of the Mosh Pit: Straight Edge, Reflexivity and Classification Struggles 8 Brutal Belonging in Other Spaces: Grindcore Touring in Melbourne and Osaka 9 Spaces and Places of Meaning and Belonging: Young People's Experiences of the Australian Defence Force Cadet Organisations 10 'What Every Other Leb Wears': Intra-Ethnic Tensions Among Lebanese-Australian Youth 11 Vernacular Subculture and Multiplicity in Everyday Experiences of Belonging Part III Gendered Experiences 12 Where Are the Straight Edge Women? 13 From the Subcultural to the Ordinary: DIY Girls Since Grrrlpower 14 Gangsta Warrior Bro: Hip-hop and Urban Aboriginal Youth 15 Girls' 'Pain Memes' on YouTube: The Production of Pain and Femininity on a Digital Network 16 Occupying the Mainstream: Performing Hegemonic Masculinity in Gold Coast Nightclub 17 'Bringing the Vibe': Subcultural Capital and 'Hardcore' Masculinity 18 Subjective Understanding of 'Subculture': Contemporary Roller Derby in Australia and the Women Who Play 19 Young Women, Activism and the 'Politics of (Sexual) Choice': Are Australian Youth Cultures Post-Feminist? Part IV Doing Subcultural Studies 20 'Queer Youth' on Australia's Gold Coast: Researching Amid Incoherence and Multiplicity 21 Sexualities and Sensitivities: Queer(y)ing the Ethics of Youth Research in the Field 22 Documenting the Subcultural Experience: Towards an Archive of Australian Youth Histories 23 Tricks with Mirrors: Sharpies and Their Representations 24 Reconciling Subculture and Effects Studies: What Do Students in Australia Want to Know About Media Cultures?
