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This article sets out key findings of an interdisciplinary Arts and HumanitiesResearch Council (AHRC) funded project that uses Long Live Southbank’s(LLSB) successful campaign to retain London’s Southbank Undercroft forsubcultural use – skateboarding, BMXing, graffiti art, etc. – as a case study togenerate discussions about young people’s experiences and engagementswith (sub)cultural heritage and political activism. At the heart of this inquiry isthe perceived contradiction between the communicative practices ofsubcultures and social protest movements: the former typically understood tobe internally oriented and marked by strong boundary maintenance, and thelatter, to be successful, to be externally oriented to a diverse range of publics.In explaining the skaters/campaigner’s negotiation of this contradiction, welook to the inclusive and everyday concepts of ‘inhabitant knowledge’ [Ingold,T., 2000. The perception of the environment: essays in livelihood, dwelling andskill. London: Routledge], ‘vernacular creativity’ [Burgess, J., 2009. Remediatingvernacular creativity: photography and cultural citizenship in the Flickrphotosharing network. In: T. Edensor, D. Leslie, S. Millington, and N. Rantisi,eds. Spaces of vernacular creativity: rethinking the cultural economy. London:Routledge, 116–126] and ‘affective intelligence’ [Van Zoonen, L., 2004.Imagining the fan democracy. European journal of communication, 19 (1), 39–52]. In eschewing the exclusionary and contestatory language of(post)subcultural and spatial theories, this article proposes new frameworksfor thinking about the political nature of young people’s bodily knowledgeand experiences, and the implications of this for the communication of(sub)cultural value.
Author(s): Ruiz P, Snelson T, Madgin R, Webb D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Cultural Studies
Year: 2020
Volume: 34
Issue: 3
Pages: 392-417
Online publication date: 05/06/2019
Acceptance date: 01/03/2019
Date deposited: 24/07/2019
ISSN (print): 0950-2386
ISSN (electronic): 1466-4348
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1621916
DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2019.1621916
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