“I’m Not Someone Who Calls Himself an Anarchist, I am an Anarchist”: The Continuing Significance of Anarchism in the Later Lives of Ex-Adherents of British Anarcho-Punk

British anarcho-punk was a unique subset of the 1970s and 1980s punk rock subculture, wherein notions of anarchism were explored and enacted, beyond the attention-grabbing anarchist sloganeering of many punk bands of that era. Through interviews with ageing ex-adherents of British anarcho-punk and drawing on their memories of their engagement with British anarcho-punk in their adolescence and late adolescence, this chapter examines the continuing significance that their relationship with anarchist ideologies has impacted on the reflexive framework through which their subsequent life courses are experienced, presented and understood. Through their reflexive narratives, my interviewees show how they constructed, developed, manifested and maintained their relationship with anarchism and their anarcho-punk identities.