Lifestyle and Memory: Profiling Two Generations of Ageing Czech Male Punks

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Lifestyle and Memory: Profiling Two Generations of Ageing Czech Male Punks

Original language description

This study considers the ageing of two generations of Czech male punks, who were born respectively in the 1960s or 1970s and the 1980s or 1990s and were active in the 2010s. Its core is the analysis of different life experiences connected with ageing punks. Punk became a more-than-one generation commitment which resulted in specific intergenerational solidarities as well as in some tensions. Here I consider predominantly controversies and differences between older and younger Czech punks, and I link them in particular with their ageing. Generational conflicts among Czech punks are of relatively rich variety. Here, I propose to concentrate only on those of their layers that can be considered as illuminating due to the specific context of punk in postsocialist Europe, in particular that of different understandings of punk in relation to the Communist dictatorship on the one hand and neoliberal capitalism on the other. First, older punks may play roles of either legends or bad models for younger ones, with younger generations of Czechs sometimes described in the emic narratives as more prude than older ones (e.g. Dědek &amp; Vlček, Zub času. Rozhovor. Galén, 2012). Second, the lifestyle differences were also often politicized. The first punk generation in this study has drawn its subcultural capital from its recollections of state socialism, memories that have mostly led to its fervent anti-communism. For the second generation, state socialism was generally no longer an issue, and its members were more committed to various anti-capitalist struggles. While asking about the different meanings of punk, in this chapter I underline lifestyle and memory differences as mutually reinforcing. I examine these two layers here by focusing on specific practices connected with the idea of home and family, in particular relation to the ageing male punk body.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA24-12087S" target="_blank" >GA24-12087S: Negotiating the Revolt in Czech and Slovak Postsocialist Transition</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Punk, Ageing and Time

ISBN

978-3-031-47822-2

Number of pages of the result

20

Pages from-to

33-52

Number of pages of the book

268

Publisher name

Palgrave Macmillan

Place of publication

Cham

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