Situational Domestication and the Origin of the Cafe Worker Species

Henriksen, Ida Marie; Tjora, Aksel

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“…This relates to the work that recognises the ways the liveliness of certain streets and sidewalks connects with shops and similar commercial activity (Hubbard & Lyon, ; Klinenberg, ). There is also value to be found in the light sociality that can be found in other commercial settings: places like cafes and coffee houses (Henriksen & Tjora, ; Latham, ; Laurier & Philo, , ; Puel & Fernandez, ), restaurants both fast and slow (Jones et al, ; Kärrholm, ), bars (Latham, ; Lugosi, Bell, & Lugosi, ), and social clubs (Conradson, ). Commercial spaces designed for particular social groups (such as the LGBTQ+ community) have been important locations for “community life, welfare and wellbeing” (Campkin & Marshall, ; p. 4; Taylor & Falconer, ; Chauncey, ).…”

Section: The Spaces and Socialities Of Social Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces

2019

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Libraries, laundrettes, and lidos. Pizzerias, plazas, and playgrounds. Sidewalks, swimming pools, and schools. These are just some of the kinds of spaces and facilities that contribute to the public life of cities. Drawing on the arguments of the sociologist Eric Klinenberg, this article develops the concept of “social infrastructure” as a way to research and value these kinds of spaces. Social infrastructure helps in recognising the public dimensions of often overlooked and undervalued spaces. It draws attention to the breadth, depth, and textures of sociality that can be afforded by different urban environments. In developing the concept of social infrastructure, this article pulls together four related strands of social scientific inquiry: work on infrastructure; publicness and public space; sociality and encounter; and the politics of provision. An infrastructural approach to the topic of public space presents geographers with some productive tools for understanding the public life of cities.

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Section: The Spaces and Socialities Of Social Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces

2019

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“…Some workers have been found to intentionally use the change in work environment to produce rhythmic variation in their work (Henriksen and Tjora, 2016; Liegl, 2014). Liegl (2014) found creative urban nomadic workers to have developed a way of rhythmically moving between work locations, such as cafés, co-working spaces or their homes.…”

Section: Literaturementioning

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Experimenting with work practices in a liminal space: A working period in a rural archipelago

Vesala

Tuomivaara

2018

Human Relations

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Lived experiences in organisational liminal spaces 'betwixt-and-between' have begun to attract scholarly attention, but the full potential of liminal spaces in contemporary mobile and fluid working life has remained unexamined. This article contributes to theory by showing how a liminal experience in an alternative work environment is created via three dimensions: the aesthetic experience of a different environment, situated practices and changes to work and life rhythms. Interview material was gathered from creative professionals working temporarily in a rural archipelago environment. The results suggest that the contrast of working in a calm natural environment supported experimentation with work practices, nurtured the formation of a communitas and spurred imagination and reflection. The arrangement's temporary nature heightened the intensity of participants' experiences. However, this intensity varied depending on work community configurations and participants' personal needs for change. This study deepens the current understanding of liminal spaces by showing how the nuances of physical and social spaces contribute to liminality and how liminality alters work rhythms. Future research should focus on how liminal workspaces can be created for individuals seeking a change in routine and increased community support.

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“…We accounted for this prominence partly through the ways in which Norwegian second-wave feminism re-appropriated breastfeeding as a crucial mothering device (Gripsrud, 2008), thereby shaping the cultural imaginary of the breast by emphasizing women's ownership of their breasts as female-specific nurturing organs, over which battles have been fought and won. This has influenced cultural and health policy discourses about mothering and parenting (Andrews & Knaak, 2013;Henriksen, 2015). Despite this discursive prominence, the life-giving breast in VM1 was neither idealized nor clichéd, but frivolous and burlesque or grotesquely dark and fearsome, supporting an assertive feminine potency.…”

Section: Eroticization and Sexual Differencementioning

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Psychosocial and Symbolic Dimensions of the Breast Explored through a Visual Matrix

Gripsrud

Ramvi

Froggett

et al. 2018

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

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This article explores knowledge about the breast in lived experience, addressing a gap in empirical research on a highly gendered cultural trope and embodied organ. We present findings from a study that used a free-associative psychosocial method-the Visual Matrix-in order to stimulate expressions of tacit aspects of the breast, aiming to generate an understanding of relations between embodied and enculturated experiences. Our data revealed how an aesthetic of the grotesque in one matrix allowed the mainly female group to use humour as a "creative psychic defence" against culturally normative and idealized aspects of the breast. This was expressed through symbolizations, affectively delivered in an exuberant mode, emphasizing the breast's potency and its potential for nurturance and "weaponization". Through this feminine poetic, life and death became inseparable yet ambiguous dimensions of breasts. The breast's life-affirming qualities included the sensual, the visceral, and the joyful-a material-semiotic knowing. This was incontrast to a second matrix, which expressed a more ambivalent and troubled response, and in which associations were weighted towards the spectacular breast of an ocular-centric culture that privileges hetero-masculine looking. We discuss differences between the two matrices in terms of psychosocial tensions between embodied and enculturated experiences.

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Situational Domestication and the Origin of the Cafe Worker Species

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces

Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces

Experimenting with work practices in a liminal space: A working period in a rural archipelago

Psychosocial and Symbolic Dimensions of the Breast Explored through a Visual Matrix

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