Key+Words


 * Duncombe Key Words**


 * Cultural Resistance** - Resistance through culture, rather than through political structures.
 * Political Resistance** - Resistance through official channels and political structures (trying to get laws changed instead of starting a subculture)
 * DIY—Do It Yourself** - a particular ideology adopted by a lot of resistance groups suggesting that members cut ties with corporate dependence by doing/making things for themselves. If you make your own clothes, then you don't have to buy them, or support corporations that you might not agree with, or participate in an economy you might not agree with, etc. Duncombe stresses this point because it made him feel empowered - if he could do things for himself then he didn't have to wait for the politicians to make change. Inspires the idea that real, everyday people can actually change things.
 * Leftist** - Pertaining to the "left" political movements, or more specifically "left" ideologies (in general, think equality for everyone. More like socialism and less like capitalism)

Cultural Resistance and/as Political Action: - creates a free space outside the system - a stepping stone to ease into political action - it is political activity - provides a haven from the outside world - does not exist
 * Scales:**

Means of Cultural Resistance: - content - form - interpretation - activity

Levels of consciousness: - unconscious - appropriated - conscious

Levels of engagement: - individual - subculture - society

Levels of results: - survival - rebellion - revolution


 * Crimp Key Words:**

Guerilla - underground, local, subversive action Direct Action - action that happens directly between people, yields results immediately Activist - Person engaged in working towards a cause Visibility - How much and in what way certain issues, identities, etc. are being seen (can be both positive and negative) Appropriation - taking someone else's idea, identity, cause, ideology, etc. and using it for one's own ends (which may be different than the original intention or meaning) Protest/demonstrations - Protest can be physical or ideological. Demonstration is actual physical moment of protest. Mass movement - a large movement involving lots of people. ie, "moving the masses." Not usually referring to a movement consisting //only// of subcultural members. The Left - People with "left" ideologies. Often used celebratory or accusatory to stand in for more complex ideas. Collective - People working together Ownership - Who has rights to something? Who controls something? Propaganda - Any media being used to advertise for a specific side of a cause or issue.


 * Frank Key Words**

Establishment - Another simple term for a complex idea. The Establishment is any and all forms of bureaucracy. Counterculture - a culture that is directly opposed to mainstream culture in some way. Often used specifically to refer to protest cultures of the 1960s, but is actually a more generic term. Information Age - A historical time when there is more information available then we could ever possibly hope to know. Capitalism/Consumerism - Capitalism is the current economic system that we live in. These terms are usually referring to the ideology that business seems to control what we value, and we express out values through buying or not buying things. "Consuming" becomes the most important part of our lives. Conformity and difference - Conformatity means to go along with, to the point of shaping yourself to, the mainstream. Can also mean unconscious compliance with the mainstream. Bourgeoisie - Sometimes referred to as the "ruling class," this means more than simply the upper crust. This idea pertains to the class that controls the norms of society. In America, usually white, upper-middle class. Ideology - the ideas, beliefs, and understandings that are behind/support our actions.