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Prologue. Punk won : a conversation with Ian MacKaye -- Punk matters : DIY punk and the politics of resistance -- You're not punk and I'm telling everyone : oppositional identities and disalienation -- Fuck your scene, kid : the power of local scenes -- Punk goes the world : global networks, counter-hegemony and the contradictions of globalization -- If it ain't cheap, it ain't punk : punk record labels and DIY as a (anti-)business model -- Satan wears a bra while sniffin' glue and eating razorcake : punk zines and the politics of DIY self-publishing -- Total resistance to the fucking system : anarcho-punk and resistance in everyday life -- Postscript. Punk rock won?t change the world, it already has

Understanding the current civil war in the Congo requires an examination of how the Congo's identity has been imagined over time. Imagining the Congo historicizes and contextualizes the constructions of the Congo's identity in order to analyze the political implications of that identity, looking in detail at four historical periods in which the identity of the Congo was contested, with numerous forces attempting to produce and attach meanings to its territory and people. Dunn looks specifically at how what he calls 'imaginings' of the Congo have allowed the current state of affairs there to develop, but he also looks at the broader conceptual question of how the concept of identity has developed and become important in recent international relations scholarship.

This essay offers a narrative history, though certainly not definitive, of punk in South Africa. Rather than an ethnographic study or a history of popular culture, the essay places this narrative firmly within the academic fields of Political Science, International Relations, and International Political Economy. The story of punk in South Africa also illustrates the tensions and contradictions within the multiple, complex circuits and processes in play in formal and informal realms of everyday life that are central to, but often ignored, by the field of International Relations. The narrative of punk in South Africa is offered as a corrective to the disciplines' Western-centrism and places people at the centre of scholarly analysis.