Essay #97: Matt Grimes, ‘I’m not someone who calls themselves an anarchist, I am an anarchist’: The Continuing Significance of Anarchism in the Latter Lives of Ex-Adherents of British Anarcho-Punk’
Anarchist Essays20 Jan 2025

Essay #97: Matt Grimes, ‘I’m not someone who calls themselves an anarchist, I am an anarchist’: The Continuing Significance of Anarchism in the Latter Lives of Ex-Adherents of British Anarcho-Punk’

In this essay, Matt Grimes discusses the continuing significance of anarchism among a group of ageing anarcho-punks, who first engaged with anarchist ideologies and politics in their adolescence in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on the relationship between ageing, identity, memory and nostalgia, Matt explores how this group of ageing anarcho-punks have negotiated their anarchist beliefs, alongside the responsibilities often associated with adulthood and ageing.

Dr Matt Grimes is Course Director BA (Hons) Music Business and Senior Lecturer in Music Industries and Radio. Matt’s most recent publications are; Way, L. and Grimes, M. (2024) (eds) Punk, Ageing and Time. London: Palgrave MacMillan and Grimes, M. (2024) "I'm not someone who calls himself an anarchist, I am an anarchist". Anarcho-punk praxis and the continuing ideological significance of British anarcho-punk in the later lives of its ex-adherents’. In: Laura Way and Matt Grimes (eds) Punk, Ageing and Time. London: Palgrave MacMillan.

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