White youth: the Far Right, Punk and British youth culture

Worley, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3049-8714 and Copsey, N. (2016) White youth: the Far Right, Punk and British youth culture. JOMEC Journal, 9. pp. 27-47. ISSN 2049-2340 doi: 10.18573/j.2016.10041

Abstract/Summary

‘White Youth’ recovers and explains the relationship between far-right organisations and British youth culture in the period between 1977 and 1987. In particular, it concentrates on the cultural spaces opened up by punk and the attempts made by the National Front and British Movement to claim them as conduits for racist and/or ultra-nationalist politics. The article is built on an empirical basis, using archival material and a historical methodology chosen to develop a history ‘from below’ that takes due consideration of the socio-economic and political forces that inform its wider context. Its focus is designed to map shifting cultural and political influences across the far right, assessing the extent to which extremist organisations proved able to adopt or utilise youth cultural practice as a means of recruitment and communication. Today the British far right is in political and organisational disarray. Nonetheless, residues tied to the cultural initiatives devised in the 1970s–80s remain, be they stylistic, nostalgic or points of connection forged to connect a transnational music scene.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/57694
Identification Number/DOI	10.18573/j.2016.10041
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Humanities > History
Publisher	Cardiff University: Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
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