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Punk urbanism

Insurgency, Crisis, and Cultural Geography

Bibliographic Data

ID3977403
AuthorsM Wood (0000-0003-2119-0942), Maxwell Woods (0000-0001-9539-0555, Adolfo Ibáñez University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume22
Issue5
Pages666-685
Publication date2021-06-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2019.1619819
OpenAlexW2946374019
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited35

This article argues that punk urbanism is best understood as the attempt to paradoxically conceive of and organize cities as unorganizable, contested, and heterogeneous spaces; the consolidation of a stable and coherent urban community is challenged within punk urbanism by the constant disruption of any identifiable and stable urban meaning. More precisely, sections of London punk in the 1970s revealed that a cultural geography based around a coherent urban meaning creates an ‘other’ that does not accord with and that is subsequently (attempted to be) eliminated or contained by the policing of that dominant urban meaning. In contrast to common theories of insurgency that seek to organize urban ‘others’ into an identifiable and affirmative collective identity – instead of being a mere negative of a hegemonic urban meaning – that will then replace the dominant culture of an urban space, punk seeks to maintain the moment when that ‘other’ interrupts and undermines that dominant urban culture. In other words, punk urbanism proposes what is usually identified as an urban ‘crisis’ as a new form of collective urban life

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Geography · Hegemony · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Punk · Sociology · Urbanism · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Architecture

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Unique citing works4
Citations per year0,67
Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 4
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