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David Drissel is a professor of social sciences at Iowa Central Community College. He is a two-time Fulbright Scholar (China, Czech-Slovak Republics), Oxford Roundtable alumnus, and Cambridge University published author.
(See my biography page for more information).
Publications:
| Urban Schism, Social Strains: Exploring the Collective Identities of Youth in Contemporary Belfast | |||
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This article investigates how urban spatial changes have influenced the transformation of collective identities in contemporary Belfast, Northern Ireland, and features an ethnographic study of local teenagers and young adults. |
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| Online Jihadism for the Hip-Hop Generation: Mobilizing Diasporic Muslim Youth in Cyberspace | |||
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This paper investigates the online adoption and diffusion of pan-Islamic/Jihadist social networks and collective identities among diasporic Muslim youth, with an emphasis on the role of MySpace and hip-hop music. |
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| Digitizing Dharma: Computer-Mediated Mobilizations of Tibetan Buddhist Youth | |||
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The role of computer-mediated communication in stimulating and facilitating Tibetan Buddhist youth participation in the Tibetan freedom movement is explored in depth by this paper. |
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| Reinventing Rebellion: Alternative Youth Subcultures in Post-Tiananmen China | |||
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This paper is an ethnographic study of Western-influenced Chinese youth subcultures, including hybridized identities such as linglei (alternative), xin xinrenlei (new new human beings), pangke (“punk”), and panni (“rebel"). |
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| Hip-Hop Hybridity for a Glocalized World: African and Muslim Diasporic Discourses in French Rap Music | |||
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This paper examines selected discourses of "immigrant" rap music in France and the related construction of hybridized black-inflected identities, particularly among North African/Muslim rappers and their fans, living in diaspora. |
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| Anarchist Punks Resisting Gentrification: Countercultural Contestations of Space in the New Berlin | |||
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Gentrification and other recent socio-spatial changes in Berlin's neighborhoods are examined, primarily from the vantage point of anarchist-punks. The influence of the "wall in the head" among youth is emphasized. |
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| Hybridizing Hip-hop in Diaspora: Young British South Asian Men Negotiating Black-inflected Identities | |||
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This paper theorizes that hip-hop has become a key factor in the subcultural negotiation of black-inflected identities among British South Asian young men in diaspora (including Indians, Bangladeshis, and Pakistanis). |
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