I am
delighted to announce that the University of Warwick has invited me to deliver
a presentation on Mod in June where I will join Dr Rupa Huq, Senior Lecturer in
Sociology at Kingston University, and Dr Shane Blackman, Professor in Media, Art
and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University, who will be giving keynote
papers at the symposium.
Theories
of subculture - emerging primarily from within the Chicago School in the early
Twentieth Century, and from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS)
in the 1970s and 1980s – have tended to characterise subculture as the
collective cultural and social practices of disenfranchised young working class
males. However, in recent years scholars have challenged this definition,
arguing that subcultures are inhabited by a diverse population, and that these
spaces may not be as cohesive as earlier theorisations suggest.
Scholars
have addressed this issue by pursuing research into ‘marginal subcultures’.
This work sheds light on how people are able to organise their cultural
practices around specific modes of subjectivity, but there is, to date, limited
engagement with how people negotiate a variety of subject positions within the
same subcultural environments.
This one
day symposium focuses on how subjectivities are managed by subcultural
participants and by those who research such spaces. It seeks to facilitate a
dialogue about the intersectional and reflexive considerations of subcultural
research, placing particular emphasis on the implementation of innovative
methodological strategies.
The
symposium will address the following questions: -
1)
Are
marginal subjectivities always disempowered within established subcultural
environments?
2) To what extent should contemporary subcultural researchers challenge the definition of subculture as a form of ‘marginal’, or ‘disenfranchised’, collective cultural participation?
3) What are the primary epistemological concerns within the field of subcultural studies at the present time?
4) How can we as researchers develop innovative methodological approaches to the study of subjectivity and subculture?
5) What does the future of subcultural studies look like?
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