Dr Justin Hunt, (FIL300.1/QSX400.2 British Masculinity on Screen and QSX400.1 Sex, Gender and the City has just published “After the After-Party” in LGBTQ+ Nighttime Spaces: Past, Present & Future, Urban Pamphleteer #7. It’s open access, and you can donate for a download.
Justin unpacks the meaning of “the chill-out, urban nightlife cultures and queer sex in the post-Aids era” in the 24 hour city that is London. It’s a great read that reveals the deeper meanings and significance in what goes on after the after-party.
In Spring 2019, Justin will relaunch London Subculture: Collective Identity, Business and Space, a fantastic sociology course that asks how unsocial hours, drugs, and dancing provide a framework to understand London itself. The class explores socio-economic realities of nightlife social groups and sites. Using methodologies from sociology and business studies the course is able to attend to two modalities of “value chains” that underpin sub-cultural experiences in club settings. They also examine the dual profit of club culture – allowing collective identities to flourish and cash economies to support vast networks. Students may undertake primary research to unpack the racial, sexual and class issues of club economy and sociality.
