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Gavin Brewis
@gavinbrewis.bsky.social
C4 Community Catapult Research Fellow with interests in youth culture, communities, sysytemic violence, and intergenerational psychosocial trauma. Scholar of Buckfast Tonic Marxism. 🍾
The article is open access, and so, I look forward to your comments and responses. Thanks to @crmnlgy.bsky.social and Greg Martin for making me aware of this edition, and the editors of the Journal who were very pleasant to deal with.

I hope you enjoy it.
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Building from this, the article proposes a simple criterion for assessing resistance in the current context: what a practice shifts (vulnerability, legibility, infrastructure), for whom, at what level and duration, and how authority responds.
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
territorial rituals, aesthetic codes, grey economies, and non-market music circuits (PC-DJing), functioned as patterned practical responses to territorial stigmatisation, and spatial dispossession.
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The article then uses original research on Ned Culture in Glasgow (circa 1995–2008) as a case study, drawing on archival materials, oral histories, and memoryscape to show how...
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Against post-subcultural framings that privilege lifestyle pluralism and individual choice, the article re-centres class as the structuring presence through which difference is produced and penalised under neoliberalism.
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My article 'Ned Culture, Rituals and Resistance: The Enduring Spectre of Class in Contemporary Youth Studies' explores the lasting significance of RTR 50 years on from its publication.
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The Market Development Association, QCAP, and St Malachys YC worked to bring this together and will be back with the Youth in early 2026 to present a draft youth health strategy and programme.

Maith thú to all those youngsters stepping up to play their part in community development 🙌🙌🙌
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Hahaha
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Zakly!! 😆
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Honestly, so class. There's footage from inside the event too but they never let me upload it due to file size on here.
October 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
You may also notice how the Glaswegian accent has some differences in how it's spoken today. Something to be said about globalisation and the PlayStation Generation here. By the 2000s, the accent already started to shift, and noticeably.

(Video courtesy of the DV Crew Archives).
October 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM