Shot By Both Sides: Punk, Politics and the End of ‘Consensus’

Worley, Matthew

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“…What makes these alternative milieus so valuable for an investigation into the wider socio‐political and economic politics of anti‐nuclear weapons activism, uncertainty, and the nuclear threat in the 1980s is the fact that they also represent expressions of a fundamental re‐evaluation of values that occurred in Britain and other Western European nations from the 1960s (A. Schildt & Siegfried, , p. 18). In a similar fashion, an examination of the synchronic dimensions of this politics of unknown could also engage with work on British youth cultures, class, rebellion, and punk music (Simonelli, ; Worley, , , ).…”

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“…Schildt & Siegfried, 2006, p. 18). In a similar fashion, an examination of the synchronic dimensions of this politics of unknown could also engage with work on British youth cultures, class, rebellion, and punk music (Simonelli, 2002;Worley, 2012Worley, , 2013Worley, , 2017. Consequently, RAGE not only marked an example of an anti-anti-nuclear weapons movement that formed in response to the growing protests against the nuclear threat but also reveals the extent to which such groups formed part of a counter-movement against an "alternative milieu" with its distinct gender and class politics in the early 1980s.…”

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The politics of the unknown: Uncertainty and the nuclear threat in Britain, 1979–1985

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2018

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This article seeks to map out possibilities for conducting a microhistorical study of the socio‐political and cultural roles that uncertainty, as a consequence of a lack of verifiable knowledge, played in political debates over the nuclear threat in Britain in the Second Cold War. Focusing on this politics of the unknown in the period from 1979 to 1985 when Britain witnessed resurging fears of nuclear war, this exploratory essay sets out to make three main interventions: First, it conceptualizes “uncertainty” as a subjective social and cultural construct with fluid meanings that does not necessarily have to hold exclusively negative connotations but might offer opportunities for historical actors. Second, this essay proposes an examination of the politics of the unknown about the anticipated effects of a nuclear war within a wider synchronic economy of non‐nuclear‐weapons‐related concerns such as de‐industrialization or unemployment. Finally, the article introduces the periodization of “Britain's long nuclear 1980s” to allow for a consideration of relevant diachronic aspects of this politics of the unknown, thereby adding further depth to the microhistory. Throughout, this exploratory study draws on historical examples to illustrate its key theoretical points.

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The politics of the unknown: Uncertainty and the nuclear threat in Britain, 1979–1985

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“…At the time, some classic British punk themes (Worley, 2012), such as boredom, alienation and anti -materialism, were imported by Italian punk bands and interpreted from the perspective of a domestic critique of the conservatism of the Christian democrats, the reification of social life by the Communist Party, and the growing neoliberalism. Compared to Portuguese punk (Guerra and Silva, 2015), the feelings of denunciation, protest and demarcation were weaker in Italy, whereas an existential and philosophical revolt against the social order was more evident.…”

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Fedeli alla linea: CCCP and the Italian Way to Punk

Romania¹

2016

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“…However, treating separately the topic we named 'Proclamation of revolt from the I towards the society', what we want to show is that, in this circumstance, the identity, stance and affirmation of the I becomes the main point of the song (whereas in the songs belonging to the former category, the focus was the 'system', the criticized hegemonic way of life). As the Renegados de Boliqueime (Boliqueime Renegades) said in their 1995 'Do lado de ninguém' (Anybody's side) song, 'We people take no orders/from anybody's side./We make our own order/without anybody's help' (see Worley, 2012).…”

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Music and more than music: The approach to difference and identity in the Portuguese punk

Guerra

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2014

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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In Western societies, punk represented a benchmark for rupture towards the existing social structure while providing a soundtrack for it. So, it is in this context that we will approach the Portuguese punk considering its importance in a society engaged in relatively recent processes of democratization and modernization. Thus, we propose here to take a look at the punk from its protagonists' discourses and the text that they form. We will consider the words used by the bands in two ways: when they name themselves and their lyrics. In each case, we will deal with the self-representation issues in the light of the polarity between identity and difference: who we are, how we position ourselves, how we distinguish ourselves, what we have to say about ourselves, our time and our world; what are our values and what we have to say regarding the dominant social values; which causes move us, how we want to act, how we want the world to be. As in any other discursive self-representation, the content is not independent of the forms of expression. Therefore, the identification and dialogue questions (who is speaking, who is he or she speaking to) and the language questions (how does the speaker express, with which codes, in which forms) are also examined. Our analysis suggests that the punk discourse on identity tends to be structured by three main axes: a) cosmopolitanism, b) the radical assumption of an irreducible difference regarding social order and c) an ambivalent attitude towards politics and the political action.

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Shot By Both Sides: Punk, Politics and the End of ‘Consensus’

Cited by 48 publications

References 10 publications

The politics of the unknown: Uncertainty and the nuclear threat in Britain, 1979–1985

The politics of the unknown: Uncertainty and the nuclear threat in Britain, 1979–1985

Fedeli alla linea: CCCP and the Italian Way to Punk

Music and more than music: The approach to difference and identity in the Portuguese punk

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