What is 'Punk Ethnography'?  Seminar @ Centre for Media Research, Ulster University, 10th March 2021
Channel: Jim Donaghey
Date: 2021-03-11

What is 'Punk Ethnography'? Practical development of a critical methodology.

Jim Donaghey discusses some of his recent ethnographic work with punk and anarchist activists, and looks ahead to upcoming ethnographic work on the new project: ‘Failed States and Creative Resistances: The Everyday Life of Punks in Belfast, Banda Aceh, Mitrovica and Soweto’. He discusses the epistemologies and methodologies that underpin research that is of the punks, by the punks, and for the punks. 

The Warzone Dialectogram online – https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/4fe627b7bedf4689de348d77187a36c7/the-warzone-collective-dialectogram/index.html

The Warzone Dialectogram zine (£1.50 + postage hard copy – proceeds to Warzone Collective) – https://blackfoxboox.bigcartel.com/product/the-warzone-dialectogram 

References:
- Bastani, M. (2013), ‘Review of the One Way Ticket To Cubesville education issue’, MaximumRockNRoll, no. 356, January.
- Beer, D. (2014), Punk Sociology, New York: Springer.
- Kourelis, K., Caraher, W. R., and Reinhard A. (eds), Punk Archaeology,  Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.
- Chomsky, N. (2006), Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy, London: MacMillan.
- Donaghey, J. (2017), ‘Researching “punk Indonesia”: Notes towards a non-exploitative insider methodology’, Punk & Post-Punk 6:2, pp. 291-314. 
- Donaghey, J., Woods. B.,  & the Warzone Collective (2019), The Warzone Dialectogram, London: Political Studies Association, and Ballygomorrah: Black Fox Boox.
- Donaghey, J. (2020), ‘The “punk anarchisms” of Class War and CrimethInc.’, Journal of Political Ideologies 25:2, pp. 113-138. 
- Donaghey, J. & Magowan, F. (2021 forthcoming), ‘Emotion Curves: Creativity and Methodological “Fit” or “Commensurability”’, International Review of Qualitative Research.
- Furness, Z. (ed.) (2012), Punkademics. The basement show in the ivory tower, Wivenhoe: Minor Compositions.
- Gordon, U. (2007), Anarchism and political theory: Contemporary problems, Ph.D. thesis, Oxford: Mansfield College University of Oxford.
- Miller, M. (2020), ‘Dialectograms: Drawing arguing with the city’ City 24:1-2, pp. 343-347.
- Moore, C. (2016), Punk Rock Entrepreneur: Running a Business Without Losing Your Values, Portland, OR: Microcosm.
- Propagandhi (2012), Failed States, Epitaph records.
- Smith, G.D., Dines, M., & Parkinson, T. (eds) (2017), Punk pedagogies: Music, culture and learning, London: Routledge.
- Smith, L.T. (2000), ‘Kaupapa Maori Research’, in M. Battiste (ed.), Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision, Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 225-48.
- Szczelkun S. & Iles, A. (eds) (2012), Agit Disco, London: Mute Books.
- Veal, M. E., & Kim, E. T. (eds) (2016), Punk Ethnography: Artists & Scholars Listen to Sublime Frequencies, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
- Wiedlack, M.K. (2015), Queer-feminist punk: An anti-social history, Vienna: Zaglossus.

Websites:
- Business Punk magazine – https://www.business-punk.com/
- Brew Dog Charter – https://www.brewdog.com/uk/community/culture/our-charter 
- GynePunk Blog – https://gynepunk.tumblr.com/ 
- Punk Ethics – https://www.punkethics.com/ 
- Punk Rock Anthropology - https://punkrockanthropology.com 
- Punk Rock Operations Research – https://punkrockor.com/ 
- Punk Scholars Network – https://www.punkscholarsnetwork.com/ 
- Punk Voter – https://www.punkvoter.com/