Violent Attacks on the "New Bidermeier" : Subcultures and the Mainstream Society of Late State Socialism and Post-Socialism
2016
Abstract
The book analyses the network of social consensus and the ways of attacking it symbolically by means of subcultural and activist practices in the 1980s and 1990s. The research focuses on the microhistorical level that is ignored and neglected by the traditional historical frame focusing on big events.
The explored material involves football fans, black metal community or skinheads and their opponents contrasted with the institutions that guard the social consensus. The analysis covers both these symbolic conflicts and their media coverage.