Description
This volume seeks to address what its contributors take to be an important lacuna in youth cultural research: a lack of interest in the phenomenon of collectivity and collective aspects of youth culture.
It gathers scholars from diverse research backgrounds – ranging from contemporary subculture studies, fan culture studies, musicology, youth transitions studies, criminology, technology and work-life studies – who all address collective phenomena in young lives. Ranging thematically from music experience and festival participation, via soccer fan culture, leisure, street art, youth climate activism, to the design of EU youth policies and Australian government ‘project’ work with young migrants, the chapters develop a variety of approaches to collective aspects to young cultural practices and material cultures. To establish these new approaches, the contributors combine new theories and fresh empirical work; they critically engage with the tradition and they complement or even reconfigure traditional approaches in and around the field.
The book will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of areas in and around the field of youth culture studies including post-subculture studies, cultural studies, musicology, fan-culture and youth transition research, but it is also of acute interest for theoretically interested sociologists. The volume offers a new afterword by French sociologist Michel Maffesoli.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Collectivity and youth cultural research
Bjørn Schiermer, Ben Gook and Valentina Cuzzocrea
Part I
1. ‘I just wanted to be a part of it’: Musical experiences of youth and belonging
Ben Green
2. Making time for the tribes: The work of synchronization in the making of youth collectivities in the age of digital media
Dan Woodman
3. Top-down collectivity? European youth policy and the need for social cohesion
Valentina Cuzzocrea
4. Enacting the music: Collectivity and material culture in festival experience
Bjørn Schiermer
5. Making a brotherhood: Young ultras beyond the match
Ilaria Pitti
Part II
6. Learning from Willis’ Lads: Collectivity and object-oriented practice
Bjørn Schiermer
7. Spaces of collective individualism: Practices of collectivity for young street artists in Yogyakarta
Michelle Mansfield
8. School strikes for climate: Young people, dissent and collective identities in/for the Anthropocene
Peter Kelly, James Goring and Meave Noonan
9. Scoring the refrain: Young African men in a diasporic context
John Fitzgerald and Adam Simmons
Afterword
Collective narcissism: Some basics of neo-tribal sociality
Michel Maffesoli
