Shaping a Postmodern Subcultural Identity and the Meaning of Belonging: A Relational Perspective on Establishing a Punk Subculture in Slovenia
Abstract
Unlike the British punk subculture's social and economic concept of "others," the same concept in the case of Slovenian punk subculture did not rest on class, race, and unemployment. It rather shaped its first otherness in the form of a reaction to the existing ideology and culture.
The presentation focuses on how and why a postmodern theoretical perspective can be applied on the research of Slovenian punk rock that emerged in in 1976. It is based on the relational perspective and developed on postmodern subcultural theories, which emphasize the fluidity of subcultures, individualization of subcultural actors, and the role of cultural consumption and globalization in shaping subcultures, as opposed to the early 20th-century modern subcultural theories that are based on social structures such as economy, class, and ethnicity, as well as youth deviance and crime.