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Published Articles and Chapters (selected) by Jim Donaghey

Capital & Class, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has confirmed neoliberal capitalism's inability to meet critical soc... more The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has confirmed neoliberal capitalism's inability to meet critical social needs. In the United Kingdom, mutual aid initiatives based on 'solidarity not charity' blossomed in a context of state incompetence and private sector negligence - including Scrub Hub, a network of groups that autonomously produced personal protective equipment and provided it directly to health workers. Using a convergence of autonomist and anarchist perspectives, this article examines Scrub Hub as an example of emergent autonomous political economies and considers the challenges of resisting co-optation into volunteerist hierarchies and suppression by the neoliberal state.

Academia Letters, 2021

Anarchist thinkers have long identified the jealousy inherent to the modern state; an exclusive s... more Anarchist thinkers have long identified the jealousy inherent to the modern state; an exclusive sovereignty claimed against other nation states, secessionists, non-state geopolitical actors, and especially against independent organisation by the people themselves. However, under neo-liberalism, the centrality of the state has been eroded and much of its productive capacity and governing power has been ceded to private corporations and supranational bodies. Conceived thusly, the state no longer jealously guards its sovereignty, but hands it over willingly.

The Covid-19 crisis appears to confirm this ‘unjealous’ ceding of productive capacity,
with the UK government handing out billions of pounds to private corporations to carry out core services and meet essential needs. On closer inspection though, the neo-liberal principle of market competition has been absent during the crisis, and the cronyistic embrace between the government and private corporations has (further) blurred the distinction between state and capital. Moreover, the crisis has in fact enflamed the state’s inherent jealousies, as evident in attempts to co-opt and suppress the upwelling of mutual aid initiatives that have autonomously addressed peoples’ needs during the crisis.

Journal of Political Ideologies, 2020

Many of the connections between punk and anarchism are well recognized (albeit with some importan... more Many of the connections between punk and anarchism are well recognized (albeit with some important contentions). This recognition is usually focussed on how punk bands and scenes express anarchist political philosophies or anarchistic praxes, while much less attention is paid to expressions of ‘punk’ by anarchist activist groups. This article addresses this apparent gap by exploring the ‘punk anarchisms’ of two of the most prominent and influential activist groups of recent decades (in English-speaking contexts at least), Class War and CrimethInc. Their distinct, yet overlapping, political approaches are compared and contrasted, and in doing so, pervasive assumptions about the relationship between punk and anarchism are challenged, refuting the supposed dichotomy between ‘lifestylist’ anarchism and ‘workerist’ anarchism.

Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics, 2019

Robin Ballinger argues that ‘[m]usic is neither transcendental nor trivial, but inhabits a site w... more Robin Ballinger argues that ‘[m]usic is neither transcendental nor trivial, but inhabits a site where hegemonic processes are contested’ (in Sakolsky and Ho (eds.), 1995: 14) – in other words, music matters. However, music (and culture more widely) is often viewed as being of minor importance within social movements, as something coincidental rather than fundamental.
Consideration of anarchism and music contributes to an understanding of the complex relationships between culture and radical politics more widely, while challenging those narrow conceptions of radicalism that fail to take cultural aspects into account. This chapter points to the core role of culture (and music) in social movements, and the recognition of this importance across a wide spectrum of anarchist perspectives. The chapter then considers evaluations of ‘anarchist music’, identifying the aspects which are too easily recuperated by the State and capital (such as aesthetics and lyrics), and highlighting those aspects which contain radical transformative potential (such as Do-It-Yourself or DIY production processes – though this is necessarily marginal in character and scope). A transformation is not a fixed entity; it only operates in relation to an a priori situation. Evaluation of ‘anarchist music’ in terms of transformation is therefore alive to shifting contexts, and does not impose a particular set of criteria – yet, it still usefully problematises any claim of a particular music as being ‘anarchist’. However, no form of music (in terms of its aesthetic or production process) is entirely immune to co-optation, and it is argued here that music’s radical transformative potential is most fully realised, and most resilient, when engaged within a culture of resistance.

Punkulture, 2018

This is a short overview of 'Punk Indonesia' written for the (French language) Punkulture magazin... more This is a short overview of 'Punk Indonesia' written for the (French language) Punkulture magazine, produced by Mass Prod.

Punk & Post-Punk, 2017

Researching punk from an insider perspective throws up important challenges, and in the context o... more Researching punk from an insider perspective throws up important challenges, and in the context of Indonesia these issues are further complicated and intensified. This article draws on the author’s experience of, and reflections on, the process of researching ‘punk Indonesia’, augmented with reflective contributions from nine other social theorists, ethnographers and anthropologists, to suggest a research methodology that is dialogical and non-exploitative while remaining rigorous, analytical and critical. The academy’s relationship to punk has often been identified as intrusive and exploitative – and with good reason – but it is argued here that academic research into punk can be included within punk’s own tradition of self-critique, especially when that research emerges from insider perspectives. The lessons learned from insider perspectives may also be mapped effectively onto outsider approaches. A non-exploitative methodology is concerned with both research processes and research outputs, and these two aspects are closely entwined. Anarchist epistemological concerns are taken on board, along with engagements with Orientalism and Grounded Theory Method, to develop an approach that gives voice to the punks, involving them in a dialogical research process and creating research outputs that are useful to the scenes, cultures and movements that are being researched, while maintaining a high level of academic rigour, analysis and critique.

Trespass, 2017

Squats are of notable importance in the punk scene in Poland, and these spaces are a key aspect o... more Squats are of notable importance in the punk scene in Poland, and these spaces are a key aspect of the relationship between anarchism and punk. However, the overlap of squatting, punk, and anarchism is not without its tensions. This article, drawn from ethnographic research carried out between 2013 and 2014, explores the issues around punk and anarchist squats in Poland, looking at: criticisms levelled at punk squats by 'non-punk' squatting activists (e.g. Przychodnia in Warsaw); instances of squats as a hub for a wide spectrum of anarchist activity (e.g. the 'anarchist Mecca' of Rozbrat in Poznań); and the repression of squatting in Poland through eviction and legalisation (affecting all squats in some form). (Other squats and social centres mentioned here include Elba and ADA Puławska in Warsaw, Wagenburg and CRK in Wrocław, and Od:zysk in Poznań.) Among the various squats, there were tensions around approaches and tactics identified as 'more anarchist' or 'less anarchist' – this speaks to the supposed 'workerist'/'lifestylist' dichotomy within anarchism more widely, but the lived experience of the squatters is shown here to be far too complex to be encompassed in any false binary.

Punk & Post-Punk, 2015

Indonesia boasts one of the largest and most vibrant punk scenes on the planet today. It is also ... more Indonesia boasts one of the largest and most vibrant punk scenes on the planet today. It is also home to world’s largest Muslim population. Punk and religion are usually found in antagonism with one another, but the situation is far more complicated in Indonesia. Using interview and participant-observation material gathered in September/October 2012 and January 2015, this article examines the relationships between punk and religion in Indonesia, finding it markedly different to the oppositional
relationship expected elsewhere in the world. Despite the fact that repression of punk in Indonesia is often religiously motivated, most of the interviewees still maintained a Muslim religious (or at least cultural-religious) identity. Those punks who did profess atheism were doing so against a very different social backdrop to their comrades in more secular parts of the world, and were making a much more significant stand in doing so.

Anarchism and Animal Liberation: Essays on Complementary Elements of Total Liberation, 2015

This chapter examines the frequent overlap between punk culture and animal rights/vegan consumpti... more This chapter examines the frequent overlap between punk culture and animal rights/vegan consumption habits. It is argued that this relationship is most strongly and consistently expressed, and most sensibly understood, in connection with anarchism. The research is drawn from the UK with participant observation and interviews from 2013/14.

Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, 2013

Punk and anarchism are inextricably linked. The connection between them is expressed in the anarc... more Punk and anarchism are inextricably linked. The connection between them is expressed in the anarchistic rhetoric, ethics, and practices of punk, and in the huge numbers of activist anarchists who were first politicised by punk. To be sure, this relationship is not straightforward, riven as it is with tensions and antagonisms—but its existence is irrefutable. This article looks back to ‘early punk’ (arbitrarily taken as 1976-1980), to identify the emergence of the anarchistic threads that run right through punk’s (ever advancing) history. However, it must be stressed that any claim to being ‘definitive’ or ‘complete’ is rejected here. Punk, like anarchism, is a hugely diverse and multifarious entity. Too often, authors leaning on the crutch of determinism reduce punk to a simple linear narrative, to be weaved through some fanciful dialectic. In opposition to this, Proudhon’s concept of antimony is employed to help contextualise punk’s beguiling amorphousness.

PhD thesis by Jim Donaghey

PhD thesis, 2016

This thesis explores the relationships between punk and anarchism in the contemporary contexts of... more This thesis explores the relationships between punk and anarchism in the contemporary contexts of the UK, Poland, and Indonesia from an insider punk and anarchist perspective. New primary ethnographic information forms the bulk of the research, drawing on Grounded Theory Method and an engagement with Orientalism. The theoretical framework is informed by the concept of antinomy which embraces complication and contradiction – and rather than attempt to smooth-out complexities, impose a simplified narrative, or construct a fanciful dialectic, the thesis examines the numerous tensions that emerge in order to critique the relationships between punk and anarchism.

A key tension which runs throughout the PhD is the dismissal of punk by some anarchists. This is often couched in terms of ‘lifestylist’ versus ‘workerist’ anarchism, with punk being denigrated in association with the former. The case studies bring out this tension, but also significantly complicate it, and the final chapter analyses this issue in more detail to argue that punk engages with a wide spectrum of anarchisms, and that the ‘lifestylist’/‘workerist’ dichotomy is anyway false.

The case studies themselves focus on themes such as anti-fascism, food sovereignty/animal rights activism, politicisation, feminism, squatting, religion, and repression. New empirical information, garnered through numerous interviews and extensive participant observation in the UK, Poland, and Indonesia, informs the thick description of the case study contexts. The theory and analysis emerge from this data, and the voice of the punks themselves is given primacy here.

Interview Articles by Jim Donaghey

AnarchistStudies.Blog, 2019

More people have killed themselves in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement (1998) tha... more More people have killed themselves in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement (1998) than died as a result of ‘the Troubles’ conflict (1969-1998). This interview and session performance with anarchist musician Kevin Jones addresses the ongoing suicide epidemic and its roots in the civil war. Kevin brings his musical expression and anarchist analysis to bear on the issue with a performance of his song ‘A New War’, as part of this interview with Jim Donaghey.

[Audio stream at https://anarchiststudies.noblogs.org/a-new-war-anarchist-musician-kevin-jones-on-the-suicide-epidemic-in-northern-ireland/]

Scraps of Hope, 2017

In preparation for the article 'Researching "Punk Indonesia": notes towards a non-exploitative in... more In preparation for the article 'Researching "Punk Indonesia":
notes towards a non-exploitative insider methodology', Jim Donaghey
interviewed a number of researchers who have conducted
research on punk in Indonesia. This is the full email interview transcript with Marjaana Jauhola.

Loughborough History and Heritage Network, 2015

Evelyn Silver was involved with the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp for several years from 198... more Evelyn Silver was involved with the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp for several years from 1981. She joined the march from Cardiff which culminated in women setting up a campsite at the US Air Force base, near Newbury, which housed Cruise nuclear missiles. Evelyn was an active supporter of protests at the camp, and was involved in dramatic interventions and performances. Her account is one perspective amongst the thousands of women who were involved throughout the camp’s existence. It sheds light on an important moment of the Cold War, and shows Loughborough’s connections with it.

Book Reviews and Review Articles by Jim Donaghey

The Just Books Review, 2016

Anthropological Forum, 2017

The Just Books Review, 2017

The Just Books Review, 2016

Capital & Class, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has confirmed neoliberal capitalism's inability to meet critical soc... more The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has confirmed neoliberal capitalism's inability to meet critical social needs. In the United Kingdom, mutual aid initiatives based on 'solidarity not charity' blossomed in a context of state incompetence and private sector negligence - including Scrub Hub, a network of groups that autonomously produced personal protective equipment and provided it directly to health workers. Using a convergence of autonomist and anarchist perspectives, this article examines Scrub Hub as an example of emergent autonomous political economies and considers the challenges of resisting co-optation into volunteerist hierarchies and suppression by the neoliberal state.

Academia Letters, 2021

Anarchist thinkers have long identified the jealousy inherent to the modern state; an exclusive s... more Anarchist thinkers have long identified the jealousy inherent to the modern state; an exclusive sovereignty claimed against other nation states, secessionists, non-state geopolitical actors, and especially against independent organisation by the people themselves. However, under neo-liberalism, the centrality of the state has been eroded and much of its productive capacity and governing power has been ceded to private corporations and supranational bodies. Conceived thusly, the state no longer jealously guards its sovereignty, but hands it over willingly.

The Covid-19 crisis appears to confirm this ‘unjealous’ ceding of productive capacity,
with the UK government handing out billions of pounds to private corporations to carry out core services and meet essential needs. On closer inspection though, the neo-liberal principle of market competition has been absent during the crisis, and the cronyistic embrace between the government and private corporations has (further) blurred the distinction between state and capital. Moreover, the crisis has in fact enflamed the state’s inherent jealousies, as evident in attempts to co-opt and suppress the upwelling of mutual aid initiatives that have autonomously addressed peoples’ needs during the crisis.

Journal of Political Ideologies, 2020

Many of the connections between punk and anarchism are well recognized (albeit with some importan... more Many of the connections between punk and anarchism are well recognized (albeit with some important contentions). This recognition is usually focussed on how punk bands and scenes express anarchist political philosophies or anarchistic praxes, while much less attention is paid to expressions of ‘punk’ by anarchist activist groups. This article addresses this apparent gap by exploring the ‘punk anarchisms’ of two of the most prominent and influential activist groups of recent decades (in English-speaking contexts at least), Class War and CrimethInc. Their distinct, yet overlapping, political approaches are compared and contrasted, and in doing so, pervasive assumptions about the relationship between punk and anarchism are challenged, refuting the supposed dichotomy between ‘lifestylist’ anarchism and ‘workerist’ anarchism.

Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics, 2019

Robin Ballinger argues that ‘[m]usic is neither transcendental nor trivial, but inhabits a site w... more Robin Ballinger argues that ‘[m]usic is neither transcendental nor trivial, but inhabits a site where hegemonic processes are contested’ (in Sakolsky and Ho (eds.), 1995: 14) – in other words, music matters. However, music (and culture more widely) is often viewed as being of minor importance within social movements, as something coincidental rather than fundamental.
Consideration of anarchism and music contributes to an understanding of the complex relationships between culture and radical politics more widely, while challenging those narrow conceptions of radicalism that fail to take cultural aspects into account. This chapter points to the core role of culture (and music) in social movements, and the recognition of this importance across a wide spectrum of anarchist perspectives. The chapter then considers evaluations of ‘anarchist music’, identifying the aspects which are too easily recuperated by the State and capital (such as aesthetics and lyrics), and highlighting those aspects which contain radical transformative potential (such as Do-It-Yourself or DIY production processes – though this is necessarily marginal in character and scope). A transformation is not a fixed entity; it only operates in relation to an a priori situation. Evaluation of ‘anarchist music’ in terms of transformation is therefore alive to shifting contexts, and does not impose a particular set of criteria – yet, it still usefully problematises any claim of a particular music as being ‘anarchist’. However, no form of music (in terms of its aesthetic or production process) is entirely immune to co-optation, and it is argued here that music’s radical transformative potential is most fully realised, and most resilient, when engaged within a culture of resistance.

Punkulture, 2018

This is a short overview of 'Punk Indonesia' written for the (French language) Punkulture magazin... more This is a short overview of 'Punk Indonesia' written for the (French language) Punkulture magazine, produced by Mass Prod.

Punk & Post-Punk, 2017

Researching punk from an insider perspective throws up important challenges, and in the context o... more Researching punk from an insider perspective throws up important challenges, and in the context of Indonesia these issues are further complicated and intensified. This article draws on the author’s experience of, and reflections on, the process of researching ‘punk Indonesia’, augmented with reflective contributions from nine other social theorists, ethnographers and anthropologists, to suggest a research methodology that is dialogical and non-exploitative while remaining rigorous, analytical and critical. The academy’s relationship to punk has often been identified as intrusive and exploitative – and with good reason – but it is argued here that academic research into punk can be included within punk’s own tradition of self-critique, especially when that research emerges from insider perspectives. The lessons learned from insider perspectives may also be mapped effectively onto outsider approaches. A non-exploitative methodology is concerned with both research processes and research outputs, and these two aspects are closely entwined. Anarchist epistemological concerns are taken on board, along with engagements with Orientalism and Grounded Theory Method, to develop an approach that gives voice to the punks, involving them in a dialogical research process and creating research outputs that are useful to the scenes, cultures and movements that are being researched, while maintaining a high level of academic rigour, analysis and critique.

Trespass, 2017

Squats are of notable importance in the punk scene in Poland, and these spaces are a key aspect o... more Squats are of notable importance in the punk scene in Poland, and these spaces are a key aspect of the relationship between anarchism and punk. However, the overlap of squatting, punk, and anarchism is not without its tensions. This article, drawn from ethnographic research carried out between 2013 and 2014, explores the issues around punk and anarchist squats in Poland, looking at: criticisms levelled at punk squats by 'non-punk' squatting activists (e.g. Przychodnia in Warsaw); instances of squats as a hub for a wide spectrum of anarchist activity (e.g. the 'anarchist Mecca' of Rozbrat in Poznań); and the repression of squatting in Poland through eviction and legalisation (affecting all squats in some form). (Other squats and social centres mentioned here include Elba and ADA Puławska in Warsaw, Wagenburg and CRK in Wrocław, and Od:zysk in Poznań.) Among the various squats, there were tensions around approaches and tactics identified as 'more anarchist' or 'less anarchist' – this speaks to the supposed 'workerist'/'lifestylist' dichotomy within anarchism more widely, but the lived experience of the squatters is shown here to be far too complex to be encompassed in any false binary.

Punk & Post-Punk, 2015

Indonesia boasts one of the largest and most vibrant punk scenes on the planet today. It is also ... more Indonesia boasts one of the largest and most vibrant punk scenes on the planet today. It is also home to world’s largest Muslim population. Punk and religion are usually found in antagonism with one another, but the situation is far more complicated in Indonesia. Using interview and participant-observation material gathered in September/October 2012 and January 2015, this article examines the relationships between punk and religion in Indonesia, finding it markedly different to the oppositional
relationship expected elsewhere in the world. Despite the fact that repression of punk in Indonesia is often religiously motivated, most of the interviewees still maintained a Muslim religious (or at least cultural-religious) identity. Those punks who did profess atheism were doing so against a very different social backdrop to their comrades in more secular parts of the world, and were making a much more significant stand in doing so.

Anarchism and Animal Liberation: Essays on Complementary Elements of Total Liberation, 2015

This chapter examines the frequent overlap between punk culture and animal rights/vegan consumpti... more This chapter examines the frequent overlap between punk culture and animal rights/vegan consumption habits. It is argued that this relationship is most strongly and consistently expressed, and most sensibly understood, in connection with anarchism. The research is drawn from the UK with participant observation and interviews from 2013/14.

Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, 2013

Punk and anarchism are inextricably linked. The connection between them is expressed in the anarc... more Punk and anarchism are inextricably linked. The connection between them is expressed in the anarchistic rhetoric, ethics, and practices of punk, and in the huge numbers of activist anarchists who were first politicised by punk. To be sure, this relationship is not straightforward, riven as it is with tensions and antagonisms—but its existence is irrefutable. This article looks back to ‘early punk’ (arbitrarily taken as 1976-1980), to identify the emergence of the anarchistic threads that run right through punk’s (ever advancing) history. However, it must be stressed that any claim to being ‘definitive’ or ‘complete’ is rejected here. Punk, like anarchism, is a hugely diverse and multifarious entity. Too often, authors leaning on the crutch of determinism reduce punk to a simple linear narrative, to be weaved through some fanciful dialectic. In opposition to this, Proudhon’s concept of antimony is employed to help contextualise punk’s beguiling amorphousness.

PhD thesis, 2016

This thesis explores the relationships between punk and anarchism in the contemporary contexts of... more This thesis explores the relationships between punk and anarchism in the contemporary contexts of the UK, Poland, and Indonesia from an insider punk and anarchist perspective. New primary ethnographic information forms the bulk of the research, drawing on Grounded Theory Method and an engagement with Orientalism. The theoretical framework is informed by the concept of antinomy which embraces complication and contradiction – and rather than attempt to smooth-out complexities, impose a simplified narrative, or construct a fanciful dialectic, the thesis examines the numerous tensions that emerge in order to critique the relationships between punk and anarchism.

A key tension which runs throughout the PhD is the dismissal of punk by some anarchists. This is often couched in terms of ‘lifestylist’ versus ‘workerist’ anarchism, with punk being denigrated in association with the former. The case studies bring out this tension, but also significantly complicate it, and the final chapter analyses this issue in more detail to argue that punk engages with a wide spectrum of anarchisms, and that the ‘lifestylist’/‘workerist’ dichotomy is anyway false.

The case studies themselves focus on themes such as anti-fascism, food sovereignty/animal rights activism, politicisation, feminism, squatting, religion, and repression. New empirical information, garnered through numerous interviews and extensive participant observation in the UK, Poland, and Indonesia, informs the thick description of the case study contexts. The theory and analysis emerge from this data, and the voice of the punks themselves is given primacy here.

AnarchistStudies.Blog, 2019

More people have killed themselves in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement (1998) tha... more More people have killed themselves in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement (1998) than died as a result of ‘the Troubles’ conflict (1969-1998). This interview and session performance with anarchist musician Kevin Jones addresses the ongoing suicide epidemic and its roots in the civil war. Kevin brings his musical expression and anarchist analysis to bear on the issue with a performance of his song ‘A New War’, as part of this interview with Jim Donaghey.

[Audio stream at https://anarchiststudies.noblogs.org/a-new-war-anarchist-musician-kevin-jones-on-the-suicide-epidemic-in-northern-ireland/]

Scraps of Hope, 2017

In preparation for the article 'Researching "Punk Indonesia": notes towards a non-exploitative in... more In preparation for the article 'Researching "Punk Indonesia":
notes towards a non-exploitative insider methodology', Jim Donaghey
interviewed a number of researchers who have conducted
research on punk in Indonesia. This is the full email interview transcript with Marjaana Jauhola.

Loughborough History and Heritage Network, 2015

Evelyn Silver was involved with the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp for several years from 198... more Evelyn Silver was involved with the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp for several years from 1981. She joined the march from Cardiff which culminated in women setting up a campsite at the US Air Force base, near Newbury, which housed Cruise nuclear missiles. Evelyn was an active supporter of protests at the camp, and was involved in dramatic interventions and performances. Her account is one perspective amongst the thousands of women who were involved throughout the camp’s existence. It sheds light on an important moment of the Cold War, and shows Loughborough’s connections with it.

The Just Books Review, 2016

Anthropological Forum, 2017

The Just Books Review, 2017

The Just Books Review, 2016

The Just Books Review, 2016

The Just Books Review, 2016

Political Studies Review, 2014

The Just Books Review, 2017

The Just Books Review, 2016

The Just Books Review, 2017

The Just Books Review, 2016

https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/797305 Applications are invited for funded P... more https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/797305

Applications are invited for funded PhD projects in the area of communication and culture, specifically proposals for investigations into the interrelationships between radical politics and music/arts cultural movements. The main focus of your proposal should be on anarchist political philosophy and related political currents (Situationism, autonomism, animal liberation, syndicalism, anti-colonialism, Black Lives Matter, trans rights, women's liberation) and/or social and cultural movements inflected with anarchist praxes (direct democracy, horizontalism, mutual aid, anti-authoritarianism, Do-It-Yourself/Do-It-Together). Participant ethnographic approaches are particularly welcomed, as are applications that make use of innovative, creative or co-productive methodologies.

À travers une approche pluridisciplinaire, le projet de recherche Aiôn (ANR-19-CE27-0008) vise à ... more À travers une approche pluridisciplinaire, le projet de recherche Aiôn (ANR-19-CE27-0008) vise à produire une réflexion scientifique autour des mécanismes de création et d’utilisation de l’imaginaire par les acteurs sociaux lors de diverses situations ludiques, et de produire des définitions pragmatiques permettant d’étudier le champ social des loisirs.

This chapter sets out to compare the motifs arising in findings from research on Indonesian punks... more This chapter sets out to compare the motifs arising in findings from research on Indonesian punks with the recurrent themes from research on punks in China. Jim Donaghey’s (2016) ethnographic research in Indonesia in 2012 and 2015 (alongside research in Poland and the UK) focused on the relationship between anarchism and punk. Some of the key areas in which this locally contingent experience of punk, activism, and resistance in Indonesia are manifested are the politics of punk space, DIY gigs and music production/distribution, and the particular forms of repression faced by Indonesian punks and the ways in which they respond.

The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock

Punk’s resonance has been felt strongly here. Against the backdrop of the Troubles and the “post-... more Punk’s resonance has been felt strongly here. Against the backdrop of the Troubles and the “post-conflict” situation in Northern Ireland, punk has provided an anti-sectarian alternative culture. The overarching conflict of the Troubles left gaps for punk to thrive in, as well as providing the impetus for visions of an “Alternative Ulster,” but the stuttering shift from conflict to post-conflict has changed what oppositional identities and cultures look like. With the advent of “peace” (or a particular version of it at least) in the late 1990s, this space is being squeezed out by “development” agendas while counterculture is co-opted and neutered—and all the while sectarianism is further engrained and perpetuated. This chapter examines punk’s positioning within (and against) the conflict-warped terrain of Belfast, especially highlighting punk’s critical counter-narrative to the sectarian, neoliberal “peace.”

International Review of Qualitative Research

The “emotion curve” is a creative methodology that asks research participants to express in graph... more The “emotion curve” is a creative methodology that asks research participants to express in graphic form changes in their emotional responses over time, reflecting on a given time period or on a particular activity or event (in our case, music-based activities). This methodology was developed as part of our research with community music-making NGO Musicians Without Borders at their “Music Bridge” participatory music and movement training program in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. This article discusses how the “post-conflict” context of our research, and our engagement with the principles of prefiguration and participatory action research, shaped the development of this innovative methodology, paying particular attention to achieving methodological “fit” (or commensurability) with the practices, objectives, and ethos of our research partners. This creative and “fitting” (or commensurate) methodology has been the basis of a “mutually transformative dialog” with our research part...

Punk & Post Punk, 2015

Indonesia boasts one of the largest and most vibrant punk scenes on the planet today. It is also ... more Indonesia boasts one of the largest and most vibrant punk scenes on the planet today. It is also home to world’s largest Muslim population. Punk and religion are usually found in antagonism with one another, but the situation is far more complicated in Indonesia. Using interview and participant-observation material gathered in September/October 2012 and January 2015, this article examines the relationships between punk and religion in Indonesia, finding it markedly different to the oppositional relationship expected elsewhere in the world. Despite the fact that repression of punk in Indonesia is often religiously motivated, most of the interviewees still maintained a Muslim religious (or at least cultural-religious) identity. Those punks who did profess atheism were doing so against a very different social backdrop to their comrades in more secular parts of the world, and were making a much more significant stand in doing so.

in Book : Trans-Global Punk Scenes The Punk Reader Volume 2. Intellect books and University Chicago Press, 2021

The punk scene’s relationship to, and occupation of, space highlights a range of issues faced by ... more The punk scene’s relationship to, and occupation of, space highlights a range of issues faced by the punk community in Bandung, Indonesia. This chapter will briefly trace a history of punk space in Bandung, before addressing two contemporary manifestations – the DIY venue and social centre Rumah Pirata [Pirate House] and squatter activists at kampong Tamansari Melawan [Tamansari Resistance]. Comparison of these two examples of ‘punk space’ – one evasive, the other confrontational – speaks to issues around: manifestations of punk activism; the sustainability of punk communities and their relationship with wider society; and diverse strategies for resisting repression. Key issues emerge around the legal status of punk spaces and the risk of exclusivity or ‘ghettoization’. Anarchism informs the activisms of both Rumah Pirata and Tamansari Melawan. As such, analysis of these spaces is weighed in terms of the degree of autonomy they are able to wrest for themselves, and the ways in which these spaces provide resources for activism, education, politicization, and networking.