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Schembri, Sharon. "The paradox of a legend: A visual ethnography of Harley-Davidson in Australia." Journal of Management & Organization 14, no. 4 (September 2008): 386–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1833367200003151.

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AbstractConsumption, especially high profile brand consumption, implicates our identities. More than that, brand consumption connects our lives to others through shared lifestyle expressions to the extent that subcultures of consumption emerge. However, as this work shows, the meaning of particular consumption objects or brands cannot be assumed. Using visual ethnography, this study describes the experiential meaning of the legendary Harley-Davidson to owners and riders in Australia. For more than three years, fieldwork was conducted primarily from within a chapter of the Harley Owners Group (HOG) and included participant observation, interviews, and visual documentation of the Harley-Davidson experience. The findings show the Australian Harley-Davidson experience to be a postmodern paradox. As an iconic American brand with a rebellious image, Harley-Davidson is readily embraced in this Australian subculture of consumption. Also, despite the widely assumed deviancy of those on a Harley-Davidson, the Australian HOG subculture is shown to uphold mainstream values in a family-friendly environment. Moreover, as an iconic symbol of freedom, this experience is achieved through regulation and organization. This work also shows the act of consuming Harley-Davidson creates the experiential meaning and postmodern spectacle that demands attention. In effect, consumers become producers in co-constructing the postmodern paradox of the (Australian) Harley-Davidson experience.
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Schembri, Sharon. "The paradox of a legend: A visual ethnography of Harley-Davidson in Australia." Journal of Management & Organization 14, no. 4 (September 2008): 386–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/jmo.837.14.4.386.

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AbstractConsumption, especially high profile brand consumption, implicates our identities. More than that, brand consumption connects our lives to others through shared lifestyle expressions to the extent that subcultures of consumption emerge. However, as this work shows, the meaning of particular consumption objects or brands cannot be assumed. Using visual ethnography, this study describes the experiential meaning of the legendary Harley-Davidson to owners and riders in Australia. For more than three years, fieldwork was conducted primarily from within a chapter of the Harley Owners Group (HOG) and included participant observation, interviews, and visual documentation of the Harley-Davidson experience. The findings show the Australian Harley-Davidson experience to be a postmodern paradox. As an iconic American brand with a rebellious image, Harley-Davidson is readily embraced in this Australian subculture of consumption. Also, despite the widely assumed deviancy of those on a Harley-Davidson, the Australian HOG subculture is shown to uphold mainstream values in a family-friendly environment. Moreover, as an iconic symbol of freedom, this experience is achieved through regulation and organization. This work also shows the act of consuming Harley-Davidson creates the experiential meaning and postmodern spectacle that demands attention. In effect, consumers become producers in co-constructing the postmodern paradox of the (Australian) Harley-Davidson experience.
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Maksay, Arpad. "Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia: Subculture and Resistance." Tourism Review International 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 33–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/154427207784771897.

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Scott, Lydia, and Anna Chur-Hansen. "The Mental Health Literacy of Rural Adolescents: Emo Subculture and SMS Texting." Australasian Psychiatry 16, no. 5 (January 1, 2008): 359–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10398560802027328.

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Objective: This study sought to explore the mental health literacy of adolescents living in a rural area in Australia through in-depth, semi-structured interviews, with a view to identifying areas for further research and making recommendations for improved education programs around mental health. Method: Nine Year 10 students (two boys and seven girls) from a rural secondary school in South Australia read two vignettes, one portraying depression and the other schizophrenia. Semi-structured individual interviews that focussed on the vignettes were audio-taped, transcribed and analysed for thematic content. Results: The data yielded a number of main themes, many of which have been previously identified in the literature. Two new findings also emerged. These were the role of Emo subculture and dealing with distress, and the value of confiding in another person through short message service (SMS) texting. Conclusions: The impact of Emo subculture and SMS texting on mental health literacy requires further exploration. It is suggested that these two findings are not confined to rural youth, but may have national and international relevance.
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Winchester, Hilary P. M., and Lauren N. Costello. "Living on the Street: Social Organisation and Gender Relations of Australian Street Kids." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 13, no. 3 (June 1995): 329–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d130329.

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The resurgence and visibility of homelessness since the 1980s have become significant social and political issues, widely debated in academic circles and in the popular press. The composition of the homeless population has changed markedly in this period, and now includes more women and children, and more of the deinstitutionalised mentally ill. The lives of street kids in the city of Newcastle, Australia show patterns of structured behaviour and territorial and social organisation. They have a distinctive group identity and moral order. Their subculture is complex with strains of nonpatriarchal and patriarchal relations combined with little tolerance of forms of difference. The moral code of the youth subculture may be a form of resistance to their histories of abuse but is also conservative in reproducing aspects of the culture that they resist. The social networks generated on the street provide a self-maintaining force which contributes to a culture of chronic homelessness.
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Sharp, Megan, and Steven Threadgold. "Defiance labour and reflexive complicity: Illusio and gendered marginalisation in DIY punk scenes." Sociological Review 68, no. 3 (September 5, 2019): 606–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026119875325.

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Since punk emerged in the 1970s as a music genre and subculture it has gained significant academic attention. Punk as a concept now alludes to specific places or scenes, and has been established as a general anti-establishment attitude, as well as an anti-consumerist disposition, with a need to do-it-yourself (DIY). Drawing upon ethnographic and interview data from the east coast of Australia, this article analyses struggles that occur within punk spaces where women and queer identifying punks negotiate historically established male dominance. Punk scenes have the general illusio of being resistant to dominant norms and practices, which is attractive to individuals who feel like outsiders. Yet through symbolic violence, systematic oppression can be perpetrated against those who do not invoke idealised forms of masculinity or femininity. Using the affective transference of gendered norms in punk spaces, we find struggles that are often homogenised in punk research which attends critically to subcultural themes of collectivism and resistance. By unpacking these themes, this article puts forth the concepts of reflexive complicity – where men and women reproduce inequality in punk spaces – and defiance labour – moments of overt challenge to symbolic violence within punk spaces and scenes.
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Sinclair, John, and Barry Carr. "Making a market for Mexican food in Australia." Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 10, no. 2 (May 21, 2018): 175–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhrm-07-2017-0042.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to account for the remarkable proliferation of Mexican restaurants and tequila bars in contemporary urban Australia, in the absence of any geographical contiguity, historical connection or cultural proximity between Australia and Mexico.Design/methodology/approachThe paper traces how the particularities of direct cultural contact, interpersonal networks and grass-roots entrepreneurism can open up new markets, and how the ground is, thus, prepared for subsequent large-scale international corporate entry to those markets. This research is based on interviews with key figures in the development of the Mexican food industry in Australia, interpreted in terms of the extant literature on cultural globalisation. The first-hand accounts of these participants have been interpreted in the light of available secondary sources and relevant theory.FindingsThe most striking theme to emerge in the study is the relative absence of Mexicans, or even Mexico-experienced Australians, in the making of a market for Mexican food in Australia. Rather, initially, Americans were prominent, as entrepreneurs and in forming a consumer market, while in later decades, entrepreneurs and consumers alike have been Australians whose experience of Mexican food has been formed in the United States, not Mexico. The role of hipster subculture and travel is seen as instrumental. Also of interest is the manner in which the personal experiences and interrelationships of the Americans and Australians have shaped the development of the Mexican food industry. This is not to ignore the much more recent participation of a new wave of immigrants from Mexico.Research limitations/implicationsWhile the scope of the study is national, the sharper focus is on the experience of Melbourne; it would be useful for future researchers to investigate other major cities, even if Melbourne has been the most pivotal of Australian cities in the history of Mexican food in Australia. The study has conceptual and theoretical implications for debates around cultural globalisation and “Americanisation”.Originality/valueThe paper provides a close-grained and suitably theorised account of how a particular consumer trend has become extended on a global basis, with particular attention to both individual experience and agency, and corporate activity.
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Williams, J. Patrick. "Subculture’s Not Dead! Checking the Pulse of Subculture Studies through a Review of ‘Subcultures, Popular Music and Political Change’ and ‘Youth Cultures and Subcultures: Australian Perspectives’." YOUNG 27, no. 1 (April 23, 2018): 89–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1103308818761271.

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Empirical studies of youth cultures and subcultures continue to flourish alongside active theoretical progression and debates within and across a variety of intellectual traditions. Annually, a range of published articles, monographs and edited collections improve our collective knowledge about youth (sub)cultural phenomena from nearly every corner of the globe. In this article I review two recent edited volumes that deal explicitly with subculture studies: The Subcultures Network’s Subcultures, Popular Music and Political Change (2014, Cambridge Scholars Publishing) and Baker, Robards and Buttigieg’s Youth Cultures and Subcultures: Australian Perspectives (2015, Ashgate). I provide a brief description and summative evaluation of each volume and then organize the review itself in terms of a set of topics that I find to be most salient across the many chapters: identity and identification, centre and periphery, social media, and history. The review moves back and forth between the two volumes as I bring together chapters that are conceptually or analytically similar. My goal is not only to review the significance of the various published studies, but to highlight the continued relevance of the subculture concept.
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Abraham, Ibrahim Bahige, and Francis Stewart. "Desacralizing Salvation in Straight Edge Christianity and Holistic Spirituality." International Journal for the Study of New Religions 5, no. 1 (July 31, 2019): 77–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.v5i1.77.

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Drawing on fieldwork in the punk scenes of the UK, USA and Australia, this article critically examines Christianity and holistic spirituality within punk’s Straight Edge subculture, a movement rejecting alcohol, drugs, and casual sex. Focusing on conceptualizations of salvation within Straight Edge Christianity and Straight Edge holistic spirituality, this article engages Heelas and Woodhead’s notion of the “subjectivization’”of contemporary religious identities to compare and contrast these forms of new religious practice. Straight Edge Christianity and Straight Edge holistic spirituality are shown to demonstrate the double movement of the ‘desacralization’ of religion in late modernity. Straight Edge Christianity illustrates the emergence of religion in traditionally secular cultural spaces, while Straight Edge holistic spirituality illustrates a movement away from the transcendent and supernatural, towards the location of salvation within wholly material concerns and therapeutic practices.
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Ramsden, Robyn, Delwyn Hewitt, Joanne Williams, Lee Emberton, and Catherine Bennett. "Tackling student drinking within the drinking subculture of a university sports competition: a culture change approach." Health Education 121, no. 4 (April 29, 2021): 388–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/he-01-2021-0006.

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PurposeThis paper explores the impact of a suite of alcohol culture change interventions implemented by Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. The interventions were designed to change the alcohol culture at a bi-annual nation-wide university multi-sport competition known as Uni Nationals. This study aims to understand the critical success factors of the alcohol culture change initiatives that were developed by the university and implemented as part of a broader set of institutional practices.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative research design utilised in-depth, semi-structured interviews with nine Uni Nationals student team leaders. In total, two group interviews and four individual interviews were conducted with student team leaders who participated in the Uni Nationals. The interview transcripts were coded and themed. The themes were further refined and interpreted into a narrative. A total of two transcripts were independently coded by the first two authors. Discordant coding was flagged and discussed until a consensus was achieved. The remaining interviews were coded by the first author and discussed with the second author to ensure consistency. A socio-ecological framework was used to understand perceived changes to alcohol culture.FindingsStudent leaders were aware of and felt supported by the university-wide approach to changing the culture of Uni Nationals. Overall, the qualitative study indicated that students were positive about the alcohol culture change interventions. The leadership training that engaged team leaders in interactive activities had the greatest impact. Student leaders found the targeted messages, mocktail events and Chef de Mission (CdM) less effective cultural change strategies. However, they helped to establish expectations of students in this setting where a heightened focus on sport was associated with higher alcohol consumption.Originality/valueWhile there has been growing academic interest in exploring “drinking cultures”, there has been relatively little focus on alcohol culture of university students at sporting events. The paper contributes to addressing this gap by shedding light on the impact of a group of interventions on the drinking culture of the Uni Nationals subculture.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Subculture Australia"

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St, John Graham 1968. "Alternative cultural heterotopia ConFest as Australia's marginal centre." [Melbourne] : Confest Integrity Agency, 2000. http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-41333.

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Title from title screen (viewed on 15 Apr. 2004) Text and graphics. Web site contains the complete thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Also includes photographs and links to related web sites. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader for viewing files in PDF format. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Available at: http://www.confest.org/thesis/index.html Selected for archivingANL
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Cummings, Joanne. "Sold out ! an ethnographic study of Australian indie music festivals /." View thesis, 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/35961.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2007.
A thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the College of Arts, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney. Includes bibliographical references.
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Cummings, Joanne, University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, and School of Social Sciences. "Sold out ! : an ethnographic study of Australian indie music festivals." 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/35961.

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The focus of this sociological research is on the five most popular and commercially successful Australian indie music festivals: Livid, Big Day Out, the Falls festival, Homebake, and Splendour in the Grass. The three key features of Australian indie music festivals are, firstly, that they are multi-staged ticketed outdoor events, with clearly defined yet temporal boundaries. Secondly, the festivals have a youth-orientated focus yet are open to all ages. Finally, the festivals are primarily dominated by indie-guitar culture and music. My aim is to investigate how these music festivals are able to strike an apparently paradoxical balance between the creation of a temporal community, or network of festivalgoers, and the commodity of the festivals themselves. My research methodology utilises a postmodern approach to ethnography, which has allowed me to investigate the festivalgoers as an ‘insider researcher.’ Data was collected through a series of participant observations at Australian indie music festivals which included the use of photographs and field notes. In addition I conducted nineteen semi-structured interviews and two focus groups with festivalgoers and festival organisers. The thesis adopts a post-subcultural approach to investigating the festivalgoers as an ideal type of a neo-tribal grouping. Post-subculture theory deals with the dynamic, heterogeneous and fickle nature of contemporary alliances and individuals’ feelings of group ‘in-betweeness’ in late capitalist/ global consumer society. I argue that Maffesoli’s theory of neo-tribalism can shine new light on the relationships between youth, music and style. Music festivals are anchoring places for neo-tribal groupings like the festivalgoers as well as a commercialised event. An analysis of the festivalgoers’ ritual clothing (t-shirts as commodities), leads to the conclusion that the festivalgoers use t-shirts to engage in a process of identification. T-shirts, I argue, are an example of a linking image which creates both a sense of individualism as well as a connection to a collective identity or sociality. Through a case study of moshing and audience behaviour it is discovered that the festivalgoers develop neo-tribal sociality and identification with each other through their participation in indie music festivals. Although pleasure seems to be the foremost significant dimension of participating in these festivals, the festivalgoers nevertheless appear to have developed an innate sense of togetherness and neo-tribal sociality. The intensity and demanding experience of attending a festival fosters the opportunity for a sense of connectedness and belonging to develop among festivalgoers.
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Hiscock, Jane E. "Capturing a process an analysis of culture and subcultures in a changing university 1993-1995." 2000. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/25021.

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The globalisation of the world economy and world markets has had far reaching effects on national economies as governments try to allocate funding to potentially profitable market areas. Rapid technological change has accompanied the expansion and diversification of the higher education market in an environment of global competitiveness, as universities try to claim their market share. Universities now view themselves as businesses, with strong implications for university staff, who are subject to new forms of organisational controls which emphasise the importance of corporate goals.
Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2000
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Books on the topic "Subculture Australia"

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Lewis, Lynette A. A select body: The gay dance party subculture and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. London: Cassell, 1995.

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Dawes, Glenn Desmond. Break on through: Indigenous youth subcultures and education. Townsville, Qld: Centre for Social Research, CSR, James Cook University, 1998.

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Youth Cultures and Subcultures: Australian Perspectives. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Larrikins: A History. University of Queensland Press, 2012.

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Moore, Tony. Dancing with Empty Pockets: Australia's Bohemians. Murdoch Books Pty Limited, 2012.

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1966-, Butcher Melissa, and Thomas Mandy 1959-, eds. Ingenious: Emerging youth cultures in urban Australia. North Melbourne, Vic: Pluto Press, 2003.

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Youthful Imagination: School, Subcultures, And Social Justice (Adolescent Cultures, School & Society). Peter Lang Publishing, 2006.

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Lewis, Lynette A. Select body: Gay dance party subculture and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Cassell, 1995.

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White, Rob. Australian Youth Subcultures. Edited by Rob White. National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, 1993.

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A Select Body: The Gay Dance Subculture And the HIV/Aids Pandemic. Continuum International Publishing Group, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Subculture Australia"

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Block, Trevor. "Coda: ‘What It Feels Like When a Subculture Appears’—Richard Lowenstein Interview, 2009." In Urban Australia and Post-Punk, 299–306. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9702-9_23.

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McKenzie, Michael. "The Bureaucrats." In Common Enemies: Crime, Policy, and Politics in Australia-Indonesia Relations, 54–84. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815754.003.0003.

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This chapter looks at how bureaucrats shape the criminal justice relationship between Australia and Indonesia in the context of cooperation between their national police forces. Adapting Mathieu Deflem’s theory of bureaucratic autonomy, it argues that the close cooperation between the Australian and Indonesian police since the late 1990s is due to their relative independence from national politics and the professional subculture that they share. At the core of this police culture is a common policy interest in combating transnational crime. The chapter also suggests that other bureaucrats from the two countries may share professional subcultures that facilitate cooperation between them.
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Pabón-Colón, Jessica Nydia. "Transforming Precarity at International All-Grrl Jams." In Graffiti Grrlz, 159–84. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479806157.003.0006.

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This chapter considers the precarity of graffiti grrlz’ social and subcultural status. Graffiti subculture thrives on social relation; in this economy, aesthetics and peer recognition have value, but who gets to spend or accrue this value through their artistic labor differs based on gender conventions. Graffiti grrlz are vulnerable within this economy because their aesthetics and their bodies (thus, their peer recognition) are valued differently—often, their contributions do not “count.” By way of a comparative analysis of two annual, international all-grrl events—Ladie Killerz (Australia) and Femme Fierce (United Kingdom)—the chapter asks what the public collective performance of feminine identity markers does within spaces where heterosexist male masculinity is the valued convention. Through the strategic public performance of an undervalued gender identity, these “ladiez” and “femmes” claim their subcultural ownership, transform their precarious social belongings, and activate the social and political power of feminist collectivity.
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Pavlidis, Adele. "Subjective Understanding of ‘Subculture’: Contemporary Roller Derby in Australia and the Women Who Play." In Youth Cultures and Subcultures, 205–14. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315545998-19.

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"Reconciling Subculture and Effects Studies: What Do Students in Australia Want to Know About Media Cultures?" In Youth Cultures and Subcultures, edited by Andy Ruddock, 275–85. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315545998-25.

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Buttigieg, Bob, Brady Robards, and Sarah Baker. "Youth Culture Research in Australia." In Youth Cultures and Subcultures, 1–8. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315545998-1.

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Bennett, Andy. "Australian Subcultures: Reality or Myth?" In Youth Cultures and Subcultures, 11–20. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315545998-2.

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"Documenting the Subcultural Experience: Towards an Archive of Australian Youth Histories." In Youth Cultures and Subcultures, edited by Christine Feldman-Barrett, 253–63. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315545998-23.

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Idriss, Sherene. "‘What Every Other Leb Wears’: Intra-Ethnic Tensions Among Lebanese-Australian Youth." In Youth Cultures and Subcultures, 115–24. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315545998-11.

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"‘Queer Youth’ on Australia’s Gold Coast: Researching Amid Incoherence and Multiplicity." In Youth Cultures and Subcultures, edited by Bob Buttigieg, 229–39. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315545998-21.

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