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#Punktopia : an alternative to resistance?
James D. Letson
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Despite a growing body of research investigating how older subculturalists engage with their communities, punk and other subcultures are still seen as primarily youth-based movements, with older members participating from the fringes. However, in Sapporo, the younger generation is greatly outnumbered by their seniors, with the largest and most active being those of an age (mid-to-late 30s) when they would often be expected to have left the scene – either temporarily or permanently – to concentrate on more ‘mundane’ concerns, such as career and family. My research shows that ‘punk’ in Sapporo is conceived, not as a space of ‘utopic’ resistance, but rather as a space of ‘heterotopic’ potentiality, within which members are free to construct meanings to suit their individual needs. It is this – as opposed to any focused ideology or practice of activism or resistance – that has afforded the community such longevity while not suffering any significant loss of membership from generation to generation. Japan currently faces issues of population decline and aging, economic disparity, dealing with the recent Covid-19 pandemic, and the ongoing recovery from the triple disaster of March 2011. The heterotopia of Sapporo’s punks offers an alternative way of being: one that allows adherents to balance the person they need to be, with the person they want to be, and one from which there is much anybody – punk or not – can learn.
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