“Wot ‘Bout Me?”: Punk, Africa, and theorizing International Relations

This essay offers a narrative history, though certainly not definitive, of punk in South Africa. Rather than an ethnographic study or a history of popular culture, the essay places this narrative firmly within the academic fields of Political Science, International Relations, and International Polit...

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Published inInternational journal (Toronto) Vol. 77; no. 4; pp. 656 - 673
Main Author Dunn, Kevin C
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2022
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Centrism
Circuits
Ethnography
Everyday life
International relations
Narratives
Political economy
Political science
Popular culture
International Relations
music
popular culture
punk
globalization
Africa
South Africa
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Summary:This essay offers a narrative history, though certainly not definitive, of punk in South Africa. Rather than an ethnographic study or a history of popular culture, the essay places this narrative firmly within the academic fields of Political Science, International Relations, and International Political Economy. The story of punk in South Africa also illustrates the tensions and contradictions within the multiple, complex circuits and processes in play in formal and informal realms of everyday life that are central to, but often ignored, by the field of International Relations. The narrative of punk in South Africa is offered as a corrective to the disciplines’ Western-centrism and places people at the centre of scholarly analysis.
ISSN:0020-7020
2052-465X
DOI:10.1177/00207020231163059