Progress is moving along at a solid pace for the forthcoming Global Punk Reader 3 (part of the PSN Global Punk Series). All the chapter contributions have been received, sent to the peer reviewers and most of them have now been returned to the authors for minor edits and amends. The fact that there are very few suggestions for edits and amends from the peer reviewers, is a testament to the high quality of the authorship and the content of each chapter contribution. There is a wide range of subject matter covered in the forthcoming book, with topics such as gender politics, feminism, film cultures, hauntology, technology, Japanese garage punk and ethics. Such is the breadth of punk scholarship from across the globe. With the final editorial process taking place in the late summer/early autumn we are hoping to have this edition published and ready to acquire in Spring 2021.
On another global note its “hello Punk Scholars Network Brasil”. We are very pleased to welcome our newest global affiliates João Bittencourt and Maiara Rodrigues, two academics who have kindly volunteered to head up the new PSN Brasil affiliation and will be developing and promoting the PSN and supporting other punk scholars in their country. We are really looking forward to hearing from them in the future about how things are developing in Brasil in terms of punk scholarship. They will also be contributing to the forthcoming 7th PSN International Conference and Post Graduate Symposium which due to ongoing global Covid-19 restrictions will, for the first time ever, take place online, just demonstrating how punk DiY principles are at the heart of what the PSN does. We will always find ways to mutate, survive and press forward. Thanks to Pete Dale and the PSN conference team for coordinating this monumental task. Details of the conference can be found in a previous blog post on this website.