Bloods, Crips and Southern Cross Soldiers: we are all gangbangers now! Johns, Amelia 2012, Bloods, Crips and Southern Cross Soldiers: we are all gangbangers now!, in YCC 2012 : Youth Cultures, belongings, transitions: bridging the gap in youth research : Proceedings of the Youth Cultures Conference 2012, Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld., pp. 1-1. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Bloods, Crips and Southern Cross Soldiers: we are all gangbangers now! Author(s) Johns, Amelia Conference name Youth Cultures Conference (2012 : Brisbane, Qld.) Conference location Brisbane, Qld. Conference dates 22-24 Nov. 2012 Title of proceedings YCC 2012 : Youth Cultures, belongings, transitions: bridging the gap in youth research : Proceedings of the Youth Cultures Conference 2012 Editor(s) unknown Publication date 2012 Conference series Youth Cultures Conference Start page 1 End page 1 Total pages 1 Publisher Griffith University Place of publication Brisbane, Qld. Keyword(s) gangs violent youth subcultures cultural identity collective cultural belonging Summary This paper presents findings from the author's PhD thesis exploring violent youth subcultures in Australia. It addresses whether growing uncertainties around issues of cultural identity and belonging in an era of risk has produced more defensive models of DIY youth culture at a local scale. Theoretically, the author examines whether globalisation has unsettled normative youth subject positions associated with the nation-state, problematising conventional logics of youth cultural formation (i.e. which view questions of race and racism through a white/black, mainstream/subculture binary). As Beck (1992;1999) argues, the de-bounding influence of globalisation has led to an ambivalent set of relations where forms of youth identity have become freed from the nation-state and class based forms of community and must be self-organised. In particular, he argues that this has produced cosmopolitan subjects and social movements as well as ‘counter-modern’ subjects and cultures. This paper applies Beck’s theories alongside theories focused on global/local influences on youth culture to an ethnographic study of two violent youth subcultures in Australia, these being the white ‘patriotic’ youth formation which emerged in the Cronulla riots and youth gang formations in Melbourne’s western suburbs. In doing so the author examines the extent to which violent youth subcultures in Australia can be regarded as strategic responses intended to restore forms of collective cultural belonging at a local scale vis a vis ‘the global’ and its destabilizing influences. Language eng Field of Research 200209 Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies Socio Economic Objective 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category E2.1 Full written paper - non-refereed / Abstract reviewed Copyright notice ©2012, Griffith University Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30056440 Document type: Conference Paper Collection: Faculty of Arts and Education   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 03 Oct 2013, 11:02:06 EST Thu, 03 Oct 2013, 14:06:36 EST Thu, 03 Oct 2013, 22:37:22 EST Thu, 03 Oct 2013, 22:38:23 EST Fri, 04 Oct 2013, 08:41:05 EST Tue, 08 Oct 2013, 13:48:41 EST Tue, 08 Oct 2013, 13:52:54 EST Mon, 21 Oct 2013, 08:49:47 EST Fri, 08 Nov 2013, 10:10:50 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 245 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 03 Oct 2013, 11:01:56 EST by Kylie Koulkoudinas

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