So obviously you guys need to sit down together as a group tomorrow and hammer out exactly what you're focusing on. After that you need:
- A rationale - what's important about this project? What is political about it? You're already discussing this so you just need to pin this down and stick with it. Don't agonise about it endlessly. Make a decision and get on with it. It will save you a lot of time later on. You need a collective statement that says exactly what you're going to do and why you're doing it.
- An actual project plan. Something has to happen in the real world. The focus should be on drawing attention to your issue and doing something to change something.
And by the way, don't forget to hyperlink your URLs. If you don't, chances are no-one will cut and paste the addresses and your observations will go unread!
After discussion in class today, we have managed to encapsulate the rationale; What we want to look at are the hidden rules and convention of leisure time in the form of nightlife, and how they change in different subcultures.
ReplyDeleteWhy this interests us is because nightlife and leisure is something that parades itself as being apolitical - it is meant to be time where you can escape politics and a place for relaxation. However, there is a link between nightlife/music to resistance, self-expression and the liberation of disadvantage demographics too: punk was anti-establishment and critical of a neoliberal state, hiphop gave a voice to marginalised black people in the inner-cities, 80's club kids/drag culture validated queer identities.