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'An excellent collection of articles that contribute to this growing range of new perspectives on punk around the globe. The collection engages with some of the more contemporary and urgent social and political issues researched through a lens of punk counter culture, offering new insights into the ways in which punk endures as a platform for empowering marginal and marginalized identities. The articles in this volume offer some new interpretations of how punk subculture intersects with more nuanced questions about gender, feminism, ethnicity and specific national scenes and examines, in some instances, how these emergent perspectives are represented in new media and digital technology. [...] Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media offers readers an opportunity to reconsider and re-frame punk as a discourse with surprisingly wide reaching applications.' -- Anita Raghunath, Punk & Post-Punk 'This timely addition to the continually growing punk corpus reveals how punk identities are negotiated in a variety of social, economic and cultural realities. It examines how punk paradoxically changes and stays the same. It shows local solutions to global punk issues and provides both sociological and scientific methods and approaches to critically work on, with and through the complexities of punk, in all its manifestations.' -- Dr Giacomo Botta, University of Helsinki, Finland 'The essays in this volume offer some new interpretations of how punk subculture intersects with more specific and nuanced questions about gender, feminism, ethnicity and specific national punk scenes. This chimes with an important undercurrent in contemporary punk studies: namely the growing realisation that, far from being able to define punk or indeed summarise its legacy in a neat way, punk as a discourse is increasingly useful as a 'elastic' term that presents researchers from many disciplinary fields with an analytical framework that is challenging, interesting and adaptable.' -- Dr Anita Raghunath, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Where punk has been about challenging political and cultural fascism on the outside, this book challenges punk itself, diving directly into critical debates around gender identity and inclusion, the maintenance of toxic masculinity and the need to constantly critically re-evaluate the relationship between DIY cultural performance and technology. This is the kind of punk reader we need today. Richly woven with intricate histories that help us make sense of where we have been as we desperately work towards where we need to go. Read deeply, share widely, and cite often.' -- michael b macdonald, MacEwan University, Canada

'This timely addition to the continually growing punk corpus reveals how punk identities are negotiated in a variety of social, economic and cultural realities. It examines how punk paradoxically changes and stays the same. It shows local solutions to global punk issues and provides both sociological and scientific methods and approaches to critically work on, with and through the complexities of punk, in all its manifestations.' Dr Giacomo Botta, University of Helsinki, Finland 'The essays in this volume offer some new interpretations of how punk subculture intersects with more specific and nuanced questions about gender, feminism, ethnicity and specific national punk scenes. This chimes with an important undercurrent in contemporary punk studies: namely the growing realisation that, far from being able to define punk or indeed summarise its legacy in a neat way, punk as a discourse is increasingly useful as a 'elastic' term that presents researchers from many disciplinary fields with an analytical framework that is challenging, interesting and adaptable.' Dr Anita Raghunath, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Where punk has been about challenging political and cultural fascism on the outside, this book challenges punk itself, diving directly into critical debates around gender identity and inclusion, the maintenance of toxic masculinity and the need to constantly critically re-evaluate the relationship between DIY cultural performance and technology. This is the kind of punk reader we need today. Richly woven with intricate histories that help us make sense of where we have been as we desperately work towards where we need to go. Read deeply, share widely, and cite often.' michael b macdonald, MacEwan University, Canada

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Matt Grimes is a senior lecturer and researcher in music industries and radio at Birmingham City University’s School of Media. Russ Bestley is reader in graphic design at London College of Communication. Mike Dines is a lecturer of music at Middlesex University. Alastair Gordon is a senior lecturer of media and communication at De Montfort University, Leicester. Paula Guerra is professor of sociology at the University of Porto.  

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