What ‘Hipsters’ talk about when they talk about hipsters : an ethnography of hipsterdom in Singapore.

• Main Author: Chua, Jeremy Ming Li.
• Other Authors: Sulfikar Amir
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51727
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

An ethnography of hipsterdom in Singapore, this thesis applies Glick’s (2010) Theory of Hipster Relativity in studying the sub/counterculture through lay narratives of the contentious ‘other’, or “cultural intermediaries” (Bourdieu 1979; Hesmondhalgh 2006: 226) who apply the ‘hipster’ label in their...