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Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives. By Hilary Pilkington, Elena Omel'chenko, and Al′bina Garifzianova. London: Routledge, 2010. ix, 285 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. $150.00, hard bound.

This collective research is the first anthropological study dedicated to the Russian skinheads, apart from some Russian works that have dealt with this issue in a more limited way. The work is also one of unique epistemological and ethical reflection about the anthropologist's role in the field, the emotional labor linked to interactions with respondents, as well as the stakes of collective work. This work is based on lengthy fieldwork conducted in Vorkuta in northern Russia, since 2002, among a small skinhead community. Its aim is to understand what these youths want to convey by committing to this type of movement. The authors do not seek to take a stance on the notion of subculture, a framework that sociological studies often assign to skinheads, but analyze the everyday cultural practices and affective bonds that bind a particular group of people together. Nor do they limit themselves to studying shared symbols, but instead examine more stable communicative practices in order to ascertain how a culture is lived out. A further novelty of this work is its focus on how young people negotiate a range of cultural regimes. This makes it possible to inquire into social structures without falling into typological categories and without limiting oneself to the idea of the skinhead's marginality relative to a given mainstream.