SELF-PUBLISHING IN THE GLOBAL AND LOCAL: SITUATING LIFE WRITING IN ZINES.

This article focuses on the zine culture as a site of life writing. Contrary to most other youth subcultures studied, zine culture is a productive community, a writing and publishing subculture which takes as one of its main focuses the critique of the commercialization of youth cultures. Through the production of independent publications, zine culture seeks to erode the predominance of mainstream and commercial interests in particular cultural activities. The zine community is a form of alternative media, a subculture of story telling and knowledge sharing.