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Mike Diboll
Abstract
Mike Diboll looks back on his life, connecting his experience as young punk producing a fanzine to his later experience in the midst of the Bahrain revolution. By so doing, he suggests a new way of writing about the punk experience, going beyond history writing, discourse analysis and cultural studies based approaches to reveal how punk pasts can be used in personal-political presents to enable personal-political agency for social and political justice, and to effect therapeutic or curative transformations in a context of a neoliberal mental health pandemic.
Abstract
Mike Diboll looks back on his life, connecting his experience as young punk producing a fanzine to his later experience in the midst of the Bahrain revolution. By so doing, he suggests a new way of writing about the punk experience, going beyond history writing, discourse analysis and cultural studies based approaches to reveal how punk pasts can be used in personal-political presents to enable personal-political agency for social and political justice, and to effect therapeutic or curative transformations in a context of a neoliberal mental health pandemic.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures viii
- List of contributors ix
- Foreword xiv
- Acknowledgements xvi
- Introduction 1
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I: Going underground: process and place
- 1 Doing it ourselves 15
- 2 Zines and history: zines as history 39
- 3 Whose culture? 55
- 4 Invisible women 72
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II: Communiqués and Sellotape: constructing cultures
- 5 ‘Pam ponders Paul Morley’s cat’ 91
- 6 Goth zines 110
- 7 The evolution of an anarcho-punk narrative, 1978–84 129
- 8 ‘Don’t do as you’re told, do as you think’ 150
- 9 Are you scared to get punky? 170
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III: Memos from the frontline: locating the source
- 10 Vague post-punk memoirs, 1979–89 191
- 11 ‘Mental liberation issue’ 201
- 12 From Year Zero to 1984 214
- 13 Kick 226
- 14 ‘This is aimed as much at us as at you’ 236
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IV: Global communications: continuities and distinctions
- 15 Punking the bibliography 245
- 16 Punks against censorship 264
- 17 Contradictory self-definition and organisation 281
- 18 ‘Angry grrrl zines’ 295
- Index 317
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures viii
- List of contributors ix
- Foreword xiv
- Acknowledgements xvi
- Introduction 1
-
I: Going underground: process and place
- 1 Doing it ourselves 15
- 2 Zines and history: zines as history 39
- 3 Whose culture? 55
- 4 Invisible women 72
-
II: Communiqués and Sellotape: constructing cultures
- 5 ‘Pam ponders Paul Morley’s cat’ 91
- 6 Goth zines 110
- 7 The evolution of an anarcho-punk narrative, 1978–84 129
- 8 ‘Don’t do as you’re told, do as you think’ 150
- 9 Are you scared to get punky? 170
-
III: Memos from the frontline: locating the source
- 10 Vague post-punk memoirs, 1979–89 191
- 11 ‘Mental liberation issue’ 201
- 12 From Year Zero to 1984 214
- 13 Kick 226
- 14 ‘This is aimed as much at us as at you’ 236
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IV: Global communications: continuities and distinctions
- 15 Punking the bibliography 245
- 16 Punks against censorship 264
- 17 Contradictory self-definition and organisation 281
- 18 ‘Angry grrrl zines’ 295
- Index 317
