J. Patrick Williams is Associate Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has published widely on the behaviors and experiences of people who self- identify as subcultural and is particularly interested in the social construction of subcultures, subcultural identities, and subcultural authenticity. He is an associate editor of the journal Deviant Behavior and an editorial board member of the journal DIY, Alternative Cultures and Society. He has authored and/or edited seven books, including Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society (Ashgate, 2009), Subcultural Theory: Traditions and Concepts (Polity Press, 2011), Studies on the Social Construction of Identity and Authenticity (Routledge, 2020), and Interpreting Subcultures: Approaching, Contextualizing, and Embodying Sense- Making Practices in Alternative Cultures (Bristol University Press, 2024).

Keynote Lecture

Interpretive practice in DIY cultures and subcultures

Publications

Williams, J. P. (2018). Subculture’s not Dead! Checking the Pulse of Subculture Studies through a Review of ‘Subcultures, Popular Music and Political Change’ and ‘Youth Cultures and Subcultures: Australian Perspectives’. Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 27(1), 1-17.

Williams, J. P. & Kamaludeen M. N. (2017). Muslim Girl Culture and Social Control in Southeast Asia: Exploring the Hijabista and Hijabster Phenomena. Crime, Media, Culture, 13(2), 199-216.

Weninger, C. & Williams, J. P. (2017). The Interactional Construction of Social Authenticity: “Real” Identities and Inter-Group Relations in a Transylvania Internet Forum. Symbolic Interaction,

Williams, J. P. (2017). Authentic Identities: Straightedge Subculture, Music, and the Internet. Youth Cultures, vol. 4Thousand Oaks: Sage.