Jones, Hannah, Neal, Sarah, Mohan, Giles, Connell, Kieran, Cochrane, Allan and Bennett, Katy (2015) Urban multiculture and everyday encounters in semi-public, franchised café spaces. Sociological Review, 63 (3). pp. 644-661. doi:10.1111/1467-954X.12311 ISSN 0038-0261.

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Abstract

This paper engages with an emergent literature on multiculture and concepts such as conviviality and negotiation to explore how increasingly ethnically diverse population routinely share and mix in urban places and social spaces. As part of a wider ESRC funded, two-year qualitative study of changing social life and everyday multiculture in different geographical areas of contemporary England, this paper draws on participant observation data from three branches of franchised leisure and consumption café spaces. We pay particular attention to the ways these spaces work as settings of encounter and shared presence between groups often envisaged as separated by ethnic difference. Our findings suggest that corporate spaces which are more often dismissed as commercial, globalized spaces of soulless homogeneity can be locally inflected spaces whose cultural blandness may generate confident familiarity; ethnic mixity; mundane co-presence and inattentive forms of conviviality.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Multiculturalism, Public spaces, Ethnicity, Restaurants
Journal or Publication Title:	Sociological Review
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN:	0038-0261
Official Date:	30 August 2015
Dates:	Date Event 30 August 2015 Published 23 July 2015 Available 30 March 2015 Accepted 17 March 2014 Submitted
Volume:	63
Number:	3
Number of Pages:	18
Page Range:	pp. 644-661
DOI:	10.1111/1467-954X.12311
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit:	21 September 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access:	23 September 2016
Funder:	Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC)
Grant number:	ES/J007676/1 (ESRC)

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