Underground Pedagogy of Hope? : German Punk-Feminist Festivals as Education in Feminist Theories and Actions

Abstract: This article approaches German punk-feminist festivals as underground spaces for informal teaching and learning practices. In doing so, I participate in a discourse of understanding festivals not merely as events where an audience socializes and consumes live music, but also as educational stage. Drawing on former research on grrrl zines activism, I question the influence of bell hooks’ “pedagogy of hope” on punk-feminist movements. In a first approach, I demonstrate how German punk-feminist festivals foster a hopeful activism, which aims to transform both the independent music scenes and the society at large. Yet, in the concluding section of this article, I explore the ways in which these festivals keep centering white people’s experiences, which appears as limiting the forcefulness of their activism. https://opengenderjournal.de/article/view/84

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Underground Pedagogy of Hope? ; volume:5 ; day:26 ; month:01 ; year:2021 ; Open gender journal ; 5 (26.01.2021)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Barrière, Louise

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/ogj.2021.84
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021091014314563493666
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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