Article -- Coffee People in Tehran, Glasgow and Amsterdam

Coffee People in Tehran, Glasgow, and Amsterdam
by Reza Shaker Ardekani and Jan Rath
Journal of Consumer Culture, 2017, 20(1): 122–140.
DOI: 10.1177/1469540517736557

Despite the diversity of consumption and class practices of the new urban middle classes within and between societies, they share some qualities. Focusing on the lifestyles and mentalities of regulars of specialty coffee bars in Tehran, Glasgow and Amsterdam, this study explores common characteristics of this group. Our ethnography suggests that through their everyday consumption practices, coffee people share a set of ethical dispositions and cultural practices among which this article focuses on the metropolitan body, cosmopolitanism and environmentalism.

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