Not just holidays in the sun: understanding DIY cultures in the global south

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2021

Authors

Guerra, Paula (Author) FLUP; Feixa Pàmpols, Carles (Author) Other

Book

Title: Exploring ibero-american youth cultures in the 21st Century : creativity, resistance and transgression in the city

Pages: 243-258

ISBN: 978-3-030-83540-8; 978-3-030-83543-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-83541-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan - Springer

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Other information

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83541-5_11

Abstract (EN): This chapter focuses on the ‘do-it-yourself’ (DIY) representations of participants in the Portuguese and Brazilian underground artistic and music scenes. Through comparison, we identify the emergence of a (re)meaning of DIY relocated in the Global South, considering the socio-historical contexts of both countries. Our approach has three focal points: (1) the importance of DIY manifestations in both countries in the development of youth (sub)cultures, including forms of production and consumption of music, fashion, aesthetics, causes; (2) the singularity of DIY punk manifestations in Portugal and Brazil, together with the related resistance/commodification practices and their correlation with social, political and economic development outside the Anglo-American context; and (3) the embedding of a DIY ethos and the associated claim to authenticity in the careers in which these social actors engage in their transition to adulthood.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: cop. 2021. First Online: 01 January 2022