16.7 4th year Ken Gelder. Second semester One 2-hour seminar per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will be able to:

• understand cultural arrangements and identifications - in particular, the ways in which cultural forms can be contested or claimed by subcultures;
• appreciate ethnographic problems in relation to the documentation of subcultures;
• understand the politics of representation in relation to subcultural identification;
• understand the formation of subcultural studies as a discipline, and the ways in which histories of subcultures may be written.

This subject studies texts relating to various subcultural formations, including gangs, music subcultures, drug cultures, ethnic or diasporic subcultures, queer cultures, body art cultures and techno-cultures. Written work of not more than 6,000 words. Hebdige D Subculture: The Meaning of Style Routledge Thornton S and Gelder K eds The Subcultures Reader Routledge Film: Paris is Burning. Documentary and other material available from the department 16.7 4th year Ken Gelder. Second semester One 2-hour seminar per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will be able to:

• understand cultural arrangements and identifications - in particular, the ways in which cultural forms can be contested or claimed by subcultures;
• appreciate ethnographic problems in relation to the documentation of subcultures;
• understand the politics of representation in relation to subcultural identification;
• understand the formation of subcultural studies as a discipline, and the ways in which histories of subcultures may be written.

This subject studies texts relating to various subcultural formations, including gangs, music subcultures, drug cultures, ethnic or diasporic subcultures, queer cultures, body art cultures and techno-cultures. Written work of not more than 6,000 words. Hebdige D Subculture: The Meaning of Style Routledge Thornton S and Gelder K eds The Subcultures Reader Routledge Film: Paris is Burning. Documentary and other material available from the Department