Mike Dines is a British musician, writer, scholar, publisher and co-founder of the Punk Scholars Network. He founded Itchy Monkey Press (http://itchymonkeypress.com) with the publication of the anarcho-punk novella the darkening light (2014), followed by Tales From the Punkside (2014), Some of Us Scream, Some of Us Shout (2016) and And All Around Was Darkness (2017) with Greg Bull.
As a scholar he has written widely on subcultures and popular music, co-editing The Aesthetics of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics, Music (Autonomedia/Minor Compositions, 2016), Punk Pedagogies: Music, Culture and Learning (Routledge, 2017), The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global (Intellect, 2019), Punk Now!! Contemporary Perspectives on Punk (Intellect, 2020), Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Vol. 2 (Intellect, 2021) and Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media (Intellect 2021). He has also written chapters for The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock (Oxford University Press, 2021) and The Oxford Handbook of Global Popular Music (Oxford University Press, 2021).
His current writing takes him in the direction of popular music and spirituality with the co-edited collection Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music: Beatified Beats (Bloomsbury, 2021). He is an avid supporter of Portsmouth Football Club.
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Mike welcomes expressions of interest for PhD supervision in the following areas:
Dines, Mike (2023) Learning on the road: Stonehenge, Skool Bus, and the development of alternative pedagogies in the new age traveller movement of the 1980s. In: Punk Pedagogies in Practice: Disruptions and Connections. Stewart, Francis and Way, Laura , eds. Global Punk . Intellect, Bristol, pp. 144-159. ISBN 9781789387063
Dines, Mike (2023) The Krishnacore Chronicles #20: Gaura-Jivana Dāsa and Bhakta Jojo from Antimaterial Worlds interviewed by Mike Dines. [Audio]
Dines, Mike and Das, Madhu Brata (2023) The Krishnacore Chronicles #19 Miloš (Neven) Interviewed by Madhu Brata Das and Mike Dines. [Audio]
Dines, Mike and Das, Madhu Brata (2023) The Krishnacore Chronicles #18: Madhu Brata das and Mike Dines interview Satya Brata Das from the bands Entrefuego and Standard. [Audio]
Dines, Mike (2023) Keynote: 'Embracing authority: When punk pedagogy met the Hare Krishnas'. In: Ripping up the Rulebook - doing scholarship in arts and humanities ways, Wednesday 19th April 2023, University of Sussex.
