Punk urbanism

Insurgency, Crisis, and Cultural Geography

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3977403
AutoresM Wood (0000-0003-2119-0942), Maxwell Woods (0000-0001-9539-0555, Adolfo Ibáñez University, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume22
Fascículo5
Páginas666-685
Data de publicação2021-06-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2019.1619819
OpenAlexW2946374019
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas35

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

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