Shared enemies, shared friends: the relational character of subcultural ideology in the case of Czech punks and skinheads
Abstrakt
The study focus on change of relations between punks and skinheads since their emergence in former Czechoslovakia until now. The first punks appeared in the former Czechoslovakia in the late 1970s and 1980s.
In the half of 1980s, the first skinheads emerged amongst punks as a kind of small and unique part of contemporary punk scene. From these beginnings, sub-cultural ideologies of both groups were blurred and vague, in part because of the lack of information about both subcultures due to existence of "the Iron Curtain".
Relatively harmonic relations started to radicalize and change rapidly after "the Velvet Revolution" in 1989 leading to split of both subcultures. At least for the first half of 1990s, both subcultures opposed each other and were perceived as adversaries.
Only in the late 1990s did an apolitical current of skinheads, drawing on traditional skinhead values, and a section of punks started to sympathise with each other again (although on different basis). This lead, in some cases, to a hybridization of these subculturalists as some of the punks and skinheads transformed into "skunks".