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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of many people around the globe and has brought to the fore discussions about the ways in which relations of power have shaped human biology and the health of populations. Focusing on these biopolitics, this collection brings together a number of historical and cultural perspectives on processes of othering in the long transnational human history of epidemics and pandemics. Discussing othering dynamics in the contexts of post-/colonialism, conspiracy theories, and different discourses of media and health, contributors explore the intertwinement of biopolitics and othering with regards to specific bodies, people, and places, in relation to COVID-19 and beyond.

Cover -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Hipster Culture: A Definition -- Enter the Hipster -- Hipster: A (Trans)National History -- Hipster Culture as (Post-)Postmodern (Post-)Subculture -- The (Trans)Formations of American Hipster Cultural Identities -- (Re)Defining Hipster Culture: Hipster Criticism and Hipster Self-Fashioning -- Hipster Culture: A Cultural Study -- Works Cited -- Hipster Places, Identities, and Transformations -- 2 (Re-)Dressing the Naked City: Hipsters, Urban Creative Culture, and Gentrification in New York City -- Hipster Culture = Creative Culture? -- The Hipster as Gentrifier? -- Knitting Social Webs -- Conclusion: Enmeshed in the Middle -- Works Cited -- 3 Glocal Hipsterification: Hipster-Led Gentrification in New York's, New Delhi's, and Johannesburg's Cultural Time Zones -- The Global Hipster Café: A Typology of Hipsterified CTZs -- Deciphering the Local in the Global Hipster Café? -- Global Habitus of the Glocal Hipster Café -- Works Cited -- 4 Hipsters in Central and Eastern Europe: From Domesticated Nostalgia to Manele and Protests -- Hipsters in the East and in the West: Two Forms of (the Same) Nostalgia -- Hipster Historic Bars in Central and Eastern Europe -- Sacrifices on the Altar of Authenticity: The Manele and the Muzică Ușoară -- The "Beautiful People" Who Fight against Corruption -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 5 Pastiching the Pastoral: Hipster Farmers and the Commodification of American Agriculture -- Identifying Hipster Farmers -- Hipster Farmer Connections to Pastoral Sentimentalism -- Media Representations of Hipster Farmers -- Locating Hipster Farmers and Their Consumers -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Hipster Fashion, Porn, and Body Politics -- 6 Hipsters and (Anti-)Fashion -- Proto-Hipsters and Dot.Hipsters -- Styles of Self-Exile.

"At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. Transforming Bodies investigates how these representations have become key sites for the negotiation of power. Focusing on the representations of 'extreme' forms of somatic transformations, particularly cosmetic surgery, this book examines iconic popular cultural texts from diverse media and genres. The reality TV show The Swan, the TV drama series Nip/Tuck, Chuck Palaniuk's (post- )postmodern novels Invisible Monsters and Invisible Monsters Remix, and Scott Westerfeld's young adult fiction series Uglies are read as expressions of the heterogeneous biopolitical discourses that are articulated in the American mediascape. In contemporary American culture, representations of body transformations are often part of a makeover paradigm that presents bodies as 'beautiful, ' 'individual' and 'improved' if they adhere to normative constructions of gender, sexuality, class, race/ethnicity, and able-bodiedness. However, Transforming Bodies demonstrates that a number of popular cultural texts take up narrative structures, representational strategies and ideological underpinnings of makeover culture in order to re-write them. These texts link makeovers to images, practices and narratives of monstrosity and thereby challenge cultural norms. At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention into critical debates on body transformations and contemporary makeover culture"--

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of many people around the globe and has brought to the fore discussions about the ways in which relations of power have shaped human biology and the health of populations. Focusing on these biopolitics, this collection brings together a number of historical and cultural perspectives on processes of othering in the long transnational human history of epidemics and pandemics. Contributors explore the intertwinement of biopolitics and othering with regard to specific bodies, people, and places, in relation to COVID-19 and beyond, as they discuss othering dynamics in the context of post/colonialism and with reference to a number of different cultural, political, medical and media discourses