Kieran Edmond James

Trade union renewal has focused on the strategy of organizing. In a period of aggressively conservative politics in Australia lasting from 1996 to 2007, the Construction, Forestry Mining and Energy Union adopted an organizing strategy of building links with the migrant communities formed subsequent to introduction of a national skilled migration programme. The union's provision of housing and language benefits and sponsorship of social institutions proved a successful strategy to arrest membership decline in this period. The strategy is interpreted using the theory of identity construction which we reinterpret as a form of accounting to community. One aspect of the accounting was a visible and proclamatory politics of representation designed to address the conditions surrounding issuance of skilled migrant visas. Another form of accounting responded to the immediate physical and social needs of communities. This quieter accounting was given form by recruitment of sympathetic language interpreters and given substance by direct and for the most part unchronicled social work performed by union organisers. Both accountings are described using Geertz's account of "thick description" (C. Geertz. 1973. The interpretation of cultures. New York: Basic Books). Consonant with the action research method, interim reports of this research were supplied to the organization, which used them to support its lobbying on the issue. The paper then can be seen as a reflection of the organization's visible accounting to community.

Abstract The rapid growth of Indonesian Heavy Metal music, especially the Death Metal subgenre, since around the turn of the millennium, has been quite remarkable. Indonesia is now numerically the largest scene in the world. Man, the vocalist of Jasad, told the author that the provincial West Javanese city of Bandung had 128 active Death Metal bands as at February 2011. This chapter will discuss the cancellation of an April 2012 music festival held in the Bandung hinterland by police halfway through the festival, and explain how and why it took place. Police became nervous and worried about Heavy Metal shows following the deaths of eleven concertgoers, due to a crowd crush, at a Beside album launch in Bandung in 2008. The chapter analyses the “maternal rage” of a band member’s mother (also a policewoman at the scene) from the perspective of grounded gendered cosmopolitanism. Lastly, a short case study of Sickles, a young band from the religiously-conservative Madura Island, shows the problems that young bands experience plus the type of global underground support which they can attract.

The rapid growth of Indonesian Heavy Metal music, especially the Death Metal subgenre, since around the turn of the millennium, has been quite remarkable. Indonesia is now numerically the largest scene in the world. Man, the vocalist of Jasad, told the author that the provincial West Javanese city of Bandung had 128 active Death Metal bands as at February 2011. I discuss the cancellation of an April 2012 music festival held in the Bandung hinterland by police halfway through the festival, and explain how and why it took place. Police became nervous and worried about Heavy Metal shows following the deaths of eleven concertgoers, due to a crowd crush, at a Beside album launch in Bandung in 2008. I also analyze the “maternal rage” of a band member’s mother (also a policewoman at the scene) from the perspective of grounded gendered cosmopolitanism. Lastly, a short case study of Sickles, a young band from the religiously-conservative Madura Island, shows the problems that young bands experience plus the type of global underground support which they can attract.