Samantha Holland (editor) - Subcultures, Bodies and Spaces: Essays on Alternativity and Marginalization

Shane Blackman is Professor of Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He has held posts at the University of Surrey and University of Greenwich. He has conducted research projects on sociological and ethnographic aspects of young peoples culture, undertaking funded research for the Home Office, London Health Authorities, the Kent Constabulary and local authorities in Kent, he was also a consultant for the British Board of Film Classification (London). His research interests include ethnography, social and cultural theory, youth cultures and subcultures, popular music, drug war politics, drug education and prevention, schooling, feminist theory, homeless young people and social exclusion.

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. He is the author of Films and dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, Wong Kar-wai (2007) and Veils, nudity and tattoos: The new feminine aesthetic (2015), and has written a number of books on topics ranging from intercultural aesthetics to the philosophy of architecture. He has been researching in Japan and worked for the Center of Cognition of Hangzhou University, China, as well as at Tuskegee University, USA.

Charlotte Dann is Lecturer in Psychology at University of Northampton, UK, where she recently successfully defended her PhD. Her research is centred around qualitative explorations of tattoos, femininities and bodies.

Amanda DiGioia is a PhD student at The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK. Her PhD thesis focuses on the construction of the female gender in the Finnish heavy metal music scene. Amanda is a member of the International Society for Metal Music Studies, and has been published in Metal Music Studies, Horror Studies and Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones.

Asya Draganova is Lecturer in Media and Communications at Birmingham City University, UK, as well as an active researcher within the fields of media and cultural studies, popular music and cultural sociology. Asya obtained her PhD in 2016; her doctoral thesis reflected on Asyas ethnographic research into the creation and articulation of popular music within the social and political contexts of contemporary Bulgaria. Since completing her PhD, Asya has been involved with research dedicated to the value of popular music particularly heavy metal and the Canterbury Sound for the heritage and contemporary identity of places and their communities.

Abigail Gardner is a Reader in Music and Media at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She writes on music and ageing, music video and music documentary. Publications include PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance (Routledge, 2015) and Rock on: Women, Ageing and Popular Music