Tjora / Scambler Café Society

2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-27593-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, eBook

While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of cafés, café as surrogate office, and café as site of exchange for news and views.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tjora, A.

Scambler, G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Sociology of the Café 1. The Café as a 'third place'; Ray Oldenburg 2. Heart of Urbanism. The Café - A Cultural History; Bodil Stenseth 3. The Theory of the Café Central and the Practice of the Café Peripheral: Aspirational and Abject Infrastructures of Sociability on the European Periphery; Paul Manning 4. Cafés, Third Places and the Enabling Sector of Civil Society ; Graham Scambler 5. The Café Community; Ida Marie Henriksen, Tomas Moe Skølsvold, and Ingeborg Grønning 6. Communal Awareness in the Urban Café; Aksel Tjora 7. Becoming a Barista; Eric Laurier 8. Community and Social Interaction in the Wireless City: Wi-fi Use in Public and Semi-public Spaces; Keith N. Hampton and Neeti Gupta 9. Design for Solitude; Erling Dokk Holm 10. The City, the Café and the Public Realm in Australia; Peter Walters and Alex Broom

Über Autor(innen)

Ray Oldenburg, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of West Florida in Pensacola
Bodil Stenseth, External representative on the board of the Institute of Philosophy, history of ideas, art history and classical languages, University of Oslo.
Paul Manning, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Trent University, Canada
Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, Researcher, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Ida Marie Henriksen, Research Assistant, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Ingeborg Grønning, PhD Candidate, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Eric Laurier, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Geography & the Lived Environment, University of Edinburgh.
Keith Hampton, Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Neeti Gupta, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Frans Oddner, Professor, Department of Sociology University of Kristianstad, Sweden
Erling Dokk Holm, researcher at the School of Marketing and at the Oslo School of Architecture at the Institute of Urbanism and landscape, Oslo School of Management, Norway
Alex Broom, Senior Lecturer in Health Sociology in the Faculty of Health Sciences at The University of Sydney
Peter Walters, Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Queensland, Australia