J. Patrick Williams é Professor Associado de Sociologia na Universidade Tecnológica de Nanyang, em Singapura. Tem publicado amplamente sobre os comportamentos e experiências de pessoas que se identificam como subculturais e está particularmente interessado na construção social de subculturas, identidades subculturais e autenticidade subcultural. É editor associado da revista Deviant Behavior e membro do conselho editorial da revista DIY, Alternative Cultures and Society. É autor e/ou editor de sete livros, incluindo 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), e Interpreting Subcultures: Approaching, Contextualizing, and Embodying Sense- Making Practices in Alternative Cultures (Bristol University Press, 2024).

Título da Palestra

Interpretive practice in DIY cultures and subcultures

Publicações

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.