AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations
1. Hipster Culture: A Definition
Heike Steinhoff (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)Part I: Hipster Places, Identities and Transformations
2. (Re-)Dressing the Naked City: Hipsters, Urban Creative Culture, and Gentrification in New York City
Annabel Friredrichs (Leibniz University, Germany) and Florian Groß (Leibniz University, Germany)
3. Glocal Hispsterification: Hipster-Led Gentrification in New York's, New Delhi's and Johannesburg's Cultural Time Zones
Melissa Tandiwe Myambo (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
4. Hipsters in Central and Eastern Europe: FromDomesticated Nostalgia to Manele and Protests
George Alexandru Condrache (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
5. Pastiching the Pastoral: Hipster Farmers and the Commodification of American Agriculture
Katje Armentrout (Purdue University, USA)Part II: Hipster Fashion, Porn, and Body Politics
6. Hipster (Anti-)Fashion
Catharina Rüß (TU Dortmund University, Germany)
7. The Irony of Hipster Beards
Christopher Oldstone-Moore (Wright State University, USA)
8. The Politics of Hipster Porn/ography
Alexandra Hauke (University of Vienna, Austria) and Philip Jacobi (University of Passau, Germany)Part III: Hipster Literature and Self-Fashioning
9. Twenty-First Century Hipster Fiction and Postindustrial Revitalization
Brandon McFarlane (Sheridan College, Canada)
10. Choosing Marginality: White Entitlement in Dave Eggers' Hipster Fiction
Stephanie Li (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
11. The Line, the Niche, and the Bathrobe: The White Male Writer as a Hipster Trope
Katharina Scholz (Journalist, Germany/Ireland)
12. "The Straight Queer": Hipster Appropriation in the Work of James Franco
Ben Robbins (University of Innsbruck, Austria)Part IV: Hipster Media, Aesthetics and Identity Politics
13. The Female Hipster in Girls and Frances Ha and the Potential of Emancipated Spectatorship
Heidi Liedke (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
14. “Fem the Future” of Hipness: Female Hipster Performers in Twenty-First Century Popular Music
Lena Gotteswinter (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
15. Art Hipsters: Postmodern Proclamations
Wes Hill (Southern Cross University, Australia)
16. Hipster Post-Communities and Digital Nostalgia Design
Marek Jezinski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland) and Lukasz Wojtkowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)Part V: Hipster Foodways and Cultural Politics
17. The Pursuit of Culinary Capital in Portlandia and Master of NoneJustine Gieni (University of Regina, Canada)
18. Pabst Blue Ribbon: The Hipster Experiment with Critical Anti-Consumerism in Beer and Beyond
Daniella Gáti (Brandeis University, USA)
19. The Paradox of the Hungry Hipster: The Representation and Cultural Politics of Hipster Foodways
Kathleen LeBesco (Marymount Manhattan College, USA ) and Peter Naccarato (Marymount Manhattan College, USA)Part VI: Hipsters as Intersectional Identities
20. Mipsterz: Cultural Capital, Racialization, and the Emergence of Muslim Cool
Anwar Ouassini (Delaware State University, USA ) and Mostafa Amini (Harvard Medical School, USA)
21. Skinny Jeans in the Sanctuary: The Hipster Christian Subculture
Caroline Barnett (First Presbyterian Church of Auburn, USA)
22. The Hipster Animal: Human-Animal Interactions in Hipsterdom
Jayson Scott Grimes (Independent Scholar, Germany)Index