However, subcultures, like social movements, are part of the same process of identity construction through opposition, and should also be viewed as both cultural and political. In post-modern theories of identity construction, identity is created through the re-contextualisation of images, becoming unstable and almost disappearing in the flux and fluidity of contemporary society. But are identities (subcultural or otherwise) really as unstable as post modern explanations would have us believe? This is important; subcultural identity has previously been dismissed as post modern and therefore, ultimately, as nihilistic.