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Negative politics: the conformity, struggles and radical possibilities of youth culture in outer East London
Drawing on an ethnography study, this paper addresses young people’s contemporary politics in outer East London. Through an exploration of online music videos and one girl’s story it engages with, and questions, prevailing academic discourses on the decline of youth politics. Foregrounding a conjunctural methodology, it discusses how young people’s political performances do indeed conform to the neoliberal matrix. However, beyond this, it also explores their struggles against neoliberal marginalisation and the possibility of radical politics beyond these constraints. The overall argument of this paper is to understand how young people’s politics are simultaneously conformist, agonist, and possibly radical in contemporary outer East London.
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European Journal of Cultural StudiesISSN
1367-5494Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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2Volume
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107-124Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
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2016-02-29First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2016-02-26Usage metrics
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