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Erbacher Twenty-first century popular culture has given birth to a peculiar cultural figure: the hipster. Stereotypically associated with nerd glasses, beards and buns, boho clothing, and ironic t-shirts, hipsters represent a post- postmodern subculture whose style, aesthetics and activities have increasingly become mainstream.

In What Was the Hipster? A Sociological Investigation , Mark Greif defines the hipster as young, white, urban, college-educated, and middle-class. While hipsters are often regarded as largely apolitical, their conventionally privi- leged background provides their lifestyle, their consumption preferences and their crea- tive expressions with a specific social, ethnic and cultural perspective.

This is evinced, for example, in their eclectic cultural appropriations and their frequent association with gentrification processes that implicate the hipster in some of the most contentious contemporary phenomena. Yet, whereas some have declared the death of the hipster, hipster culture seems to be very much alive in global urban centers and in the popular cultural imagination.

Studies on the hipster and particularly hipster culture are strikingly rare. Hipster Culture: A Reader seeks to fill this research gap by approaching the hipster and hipster culture from a variety of Cultural Studies perspectives.

Inviting papers that discuss the hipster and hipster culture from the perspectives of Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Critical Race Studies, Class Studies and a number of other approaches in Media Studies, Literary Studies and Popular Culture Studies, we suggest to reflect on the hipster not primarily as a sociological figure, but foremost as a powerful cultural discourse that takes shape in representations in movies, novels, TV shows, music, web pages, comics, and as a lifestyle and aesthetic that shapes specific practices, products and places, such as barber shops, restaurants, urban gardens, arts and crafts products, fashion, etc.

In which different ways, however, can we also think of the hipster and hipster culture as political agents? Whereas the hipster is often imagined as male, we are interested in papers that specifically discuss the female hipster and female hipster culture.

Whereas hipsters are conventionally regarded as intricately linked to whiteness, we also ask for papers that deal with non- white hipsters e.

Papers that take a transnational perspective or focus on hipster culture in non- western cultures are particularly encouraged. Topics for papers may include, but are not limited to: - self- representations of hipsters in movies, TV series, magazines or literature e.