Café Society This page intentionally left blank Café Society Edited by Aksel Tjora and Graham Scambler CAFÉ SOCIETY Copyright © Aksel Tjora and Graham Scambler, 2013. All rights reserved. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–27592–9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: November 2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents List of Figures v ii List of Contributors ix Introduction 1 Aksel Tjora and Graham Scambler 1 The Café as a Third Place 7 Ray Oldenburg 2 Heart of Urbanism. The Café: A Chapter of Cultural History 23 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 43 Paul Manning 4 Cafés, Third Places, and the Enabling Sector of Civil Society 67 Graham Scambler 5 The Café Community 87 Ida Marie Henriksen, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, and Ingeborg Grønning 6 Communal Awareness in the Urban Café 103 Aksel Tjora 7 Becoming a Barista 127 Eric Laurier vi Contents 8 Community and Social Interaction in the Wireless City: Wi-Fi use in Public and Semi-Public Spaces 147 Keith N. Hampton and Neeti Gupta 9 Design for Solitude 173 Erling Dokk Holm 10 The City, the Café, and the Public Realm in Australia 185 Peter Walters and Alex Broom Index 207 Figures 3.1 K. Zdanevich’s “Old Tbilisi Sketches” 50 3.2 “Kutaisi entertainment” (1903) 62 3.3 “ The last days of Tbilisi’s ‘Konka’ Tramway” (1904) 63 7.1 Coffee grounds before they are tapped 131 7.2 A more balanced heap 132 9.1 The coffee bar, Kaffebrenneriet 177 9.2 The coffee bar, Java 181 9.3 The coffee bar, Evita 182 This page intentionally left blank Contributors Alex Broom is Associate Professor of Sociology and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia. He spe- cializes in the sociology of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (TCAM) and the sociology of cancer and end-of-life care. Ingeborg Grønning is a PhD Research Fellow in Sociology at the NorwegianUniversity of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Sociology and Political Science. She has research interests both in urban sociology and in studies of health and technology. Neeti Gupta is Senior Business Strategist at Microsoft. She has an MSc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research and professional work has allowed her to strad- dle the worlds of technology and culture, production and consumption, design and user experience to explore experi- ence design in online and offline community. Keith N. Hampton is Associate Professor of Communication at the Rutgers University. His research interests focus on the relationship between information and communication tech- nologies, social networks, and the urban environment. Ida Marie Henriksen is a PhD Research Fellow in Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Sociology and Political Science. She researches within urban sociology, with special interest in interaction in public and semi-public spaces. Erling Dokk Holm is Associate Professor of Urbanism at the Oslo School of Management, Norway. His research focuses