ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationship between style, lifestyle and values. In the skinhead group, disillusionment is connected to a growing discrepancy between the lifestyle and the values and visions of a new society—a feeling that utopia would never become realized. In the post-skinhead group, there exists a strong homology between style, lifestyle and values, and a hope to realize a utopian and ‘White’ culture. In the contemporary Swedish neo-Nazi movement, there is no room for ambivalence or contingency. Our informants try to live their lives caught between society’s regulations and norms and the subcultural comfort zone. Through rituals, festivals and political activities, the neo-Nazi identity is developed and maintained. However, when leaving the subcultural space and comfort zone, this identity and political conviction is questioned and, in some countries, banned.
