Episode 1 - "You're drinking caffeine, not coffee"

In this episode we discuss coffee consumption and the culture around it. From the Five Waves of Coffee to production, and to the changes in café culture. And finally, how coffee marketing is ridiculously effective (on some of us).While we don’t always refer to literature within the podcast, a lot of our conversations feed from research conducted within the fields of consumer culture/consumption studies; as well as sociology, anthropology, and other disciplines. Plus, we don’t manage to cover everything we’d have liked to cover. For those interested in further reading or research on the topics we discuss, we would like to provide a (non-exhaustive) list of literature for further reading.Enjoy!Anuja and AlevCoffee Cultures: Historical Perspectives:Kjeldgaard, D., & Ostberg, J. (2007). Coffee grounds and the global cup: Glocal consumer culture in Scandinavia Consumption Markets & Culture, 10(2), 175-187.and the excellent videography that this article accompanies: https://vimeo.com/58522186Karababa, E., & Ger, G. (2011). Early modern Ottoman coffeehouse culture and the formation of the consumer subject. Journal of Consumer Research, 37(5), 737-760.Laurier, E., & Philo, C. (2007). ‘A parcel of muddling muckworms’: Revisiting Habermas and the English coffee-houses. Social & cultural geography, 8(2), 259-281.Venkatachalapathy, A. R. (2002). 'In those days there was no coffee': Coffee-drinking and middle-class culture in colonial Tamilnadu. The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 39(2-3), 301-316.Coffeeshops: The third place and beyond:Bookman, S. (2013). Branded cosmopolitanisms:‘Global’coffee brands and the co-creation of ‘cosmopolitan cool’. Cultural Sociology, 7(1), 56-72.Kuruoğlu, A. P., & Woodward, I. Textures of diversity: Socio-material arrangements, atmosphere, and social inclusion in a multi-ethnic neighbourhood. Journal of Sociology, 1440783320984240.Oldenburg, R., & Brissett, D. (1982). The third place. Qualitative sociology, 5(4), 265-284.Global Coffee (or sometimes tea) Cultures:(on tea in Turkey – a counterpoint to coffee consumption) Ger, G., & Kravets, O. (2009). Special and ordinary times. Time, consumption and everyday life: Practice, materiality and culture, 189.Grinshpun, H. (2014). Deconstructing a global commodity: Coffee, culture, and consumption in Japan. Journal of Consumer Culture, 14(3), 343-364.Köse, Y. (2019). “The fact is, that Turks can’t live without coffee…” the introduction of Nescafé into Turkey (1952-1987). Journal of Historical Research in Marketing.Kjeldgaard, D., & Ostberg, J. (2007). Coffee grounds and the global cup: Glocal consumer culture in Scandinavia. Consumption Markets & Culture, 10(2), 175-187.Lutgendorf, P. (2012). Making tea in India: Chai, capitalism, culture. Thesis Eleven, 113(1), 11-31.Thompson, C. J., & Arsel, Z. (2004). The Starbucks brandscape and consumers'(anticorporate) experiences of glocalization. Journal of consumer research, 31(3), 631-642.Tucker, C. M. (2017). Coffee culture: Local experiences, global connections. Taylor & Francis.Documentary: “There is Only Coffee” on Ethiopian Coffee culture https://aeon.co/videos/the-rich-traditions-of-ethiopian-coffee-culture-and-the-hard-work-behind-itCoffee and “taste”:Bookman, S. (2013). Coffee brands, class and culture in a Canadian city. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 16(4), 405-423.Lannigan, J. (2020). Making a space for taste: Context and discourse in the specialty coffee scene. International...

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In this podcast, researchers Anuja Pradhan and Alev Kuruoglu from the University of Southern Denmark take a critical look at everything and anything related to our consumer society. They will be talking to researchers and students about fun things like coffee, tv and fitness cultures.