Keynote Speech – Punk Scholars Network Indonesia conference
7th December 2021
Decolonising ‘Global Punk’ – this keynote speech discusses punk internationalism and punk globalisation within the wider conference themes of ‘circuits, networks and connections’, highlighting punk’s complicated relationship with neoliberalism and how anarchism weaves its way through, or against, that relationship.
Anarchism & Punk
20th October 2021
Short video recorded for the Anarchism Research Group’s #anarchism220 project, asking ‘what would anarchism look like without punk?’ First published on Twitter.
Under the Radar? The changing face of repression against anarchism and punk in Indonesia
7th-9th July 2021
Presentation as part of the 1st AlterSEA Conference, on the panel ‘Political Participation – the geometry of participation in the face of neoliberal-influenced authoritarianism (Indonesia)’.
‘Fuck Gentrification’: the conflict between alternative, anti-sectarian space and post-conflict ‘development’ in Belfast
30th March 2021
Hosted by the Anarchism Research Group, Loughborough. This presentation was given as part of the Anarchist Studies Network panels at the 2021 Political Studies Association conference, discussing the struggle between anti-sectarian punk space and neoliberal gentrification in post-conflict Belfast.
The Warzone Dialectogram: graphically documenting our punk anarchist social centre
20th March 2021
Presented at Recording It Ourselves: A Day Event about DIY Cultures, Information Archives and Histories. Explanation of the dialectogram as a creative research methodology, and discussion of the concept of ‘methodological fit’, and their importance in terms of documenting our own social movements and cultures.
What is ‘Punk Ethnography’? Practical development of a critical methodology.
10th March 2021
Seminar at the Centre for Media Research, Ulster University.
Discussion of some recent ethnographic work with punk and anarchist activists, and thinking ahead to the upcoming project: ‘Failed States and Creative Resistances: The Everyday Life of Punks in Belfast, Banda Aceh, Mitrovica and Soweto’. Critical focus on the epistemologies and methodologies that underpin research that is of the punks, by the punks, and for the punks.
Anarchist analyses of conflict and post-conflict in punk in Northern Ireland, 1978-2020.
2nd September 2020
6th International Anarchist Studies Network Conference.
Curated chronological playlist of (clips of) 42 Northern Ireland punk songs, stretching across 42 years, aurally sketching punk anarchist counter-narratives through the songs themselves.
Anarchism and punk have been particularly closely intertwined in Northern Ireland and for over 40 years punk has provided critical counter-narratives to sectarian ‘two traditions’ mentalities, both during the height of the conflict crisis (1969-1998), and during the perpetual crises of the neo-liberal post-conflict period (1998 onwards).
‘Punks Against Sweatshops’: interview with the Punk Ethics campaign.
2nd September 2020
6th International Anarchist Studies Network Conference.
Campaign video by the Punk Ethics Collective followed an interview with Jay Kerr from Punk Ethics.
Interview with Asel Luzarraga (Basque author, anarchist activist and punk musician).
2nd September 2020
6th International Anarchist Studies Network Conference.
Asel Luzarraga in interview with Jim Donaghey. Asel discusses the relationships between punk and anarchism in the Basque Country and Chile, the protest movement in Chile, the ongoing struggle of the indigenous Mapuche people, state repression of anarchists, and the impact of the pandemic on protest and organising.
Punk Song Counter-Narratives in Northern Ireland 1977-2020.
21st May 2020
‘Sensing Divisions’ virtual conference hosted by Queen’s University Belfast.
Curated playlist of punk in Northern Ireland from 1977 to 2020. The presentation takes the themes of ‘confrontation’ and ‘escape’ in punk in Northern Ireland and traces their trajectory through the last 43 years.
‘Fuck Nostalgia’: Conflicting punk imaginaries of ‘retromania’ and iconoclastic contemporaneousness
«Fuck Nostalgia»: Des imaginaires contradictoire de punk – «retromanie» et contemporanéité iconoclaste
12th June/Juin 2020
For the 32nd workshop of the Council of Europe’s FER-EURETHNO group on ‘Imaginaries of time, times of imaginaries’, hosted by the University of Łódź, held online. With captions in English and French.
Pour le 32e atelier du réseau FER-EURETHNO sur «Les imaginaires du temps, les temps des imaginaires», organisé par l’Université de Łódź, tenue en ligne. Avec légendes en anglais et français.