https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4 en-us 2020-09-17 05:20:35 UTC 2020-09-17 17:20:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756158589 "Americans organize our schedules to combine casual conversation with the consumption of good and drink in a commercial retail space are by no means natural or universal (660)."

"In the historical context of the late 1990s, when Good Will Hunting was produced and Starbucks and other coffeehouse chains were proliferating in upscale
commercial districts across North America, it can be safely assumed that there
were no Starbucks-style coffeehouses in the working-class area Will comes from.
His gently mocking response to Skylar’s proposal (“maybe we can just get together and eat a bunch of caramels”) can thus be read as an incipient critique of
the class- and place-specific nature of “going out for coffee” as a social practice." (661).]]> 2020-09-17 17:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756158589 https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756173948 "Over the course of several decades, such policies have had a major impact on where, how, and with whom U.S. residents live, work, and interact. In particular, they have subsidized the growth of sprawling, environmentally rapacious suburbs that are usually both socioeconomically and ethnically segregated" (p. 674).]]> 2020-09-17 17:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756173948 https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756174671 "These associations are encoded in the plot of Good Will Hunting, for the relationship between coffee and conversation in the contemporary United States
is inextricably tied to the same forces of class, race, and geography – of capitalism
and the legacy of colonialism."]]> 2020-09-17 17:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756174671 https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756182179 Third, as public establishments (in a modified Habermasian sense), coffeehouses and restaurants mitigate the physical and psychological intimacy of face-to-face interaction, allowing individuals who are not well acquainted (such as Sharon and her male client) to feel safer and less pressured to perform conversationally than they might feel in a private home or other secluded location. (p. 682)]]> 2020-09-17 17:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756182179 https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756188708 Research by cultural geographers identifies “safety” (and its correlate, “fear”) as a recurring trope in middle-class discourses of place; “safety” finds its material expression in gated residential communities as well as in the widespread deploy- ment of police, security guards, and electronic surveillance systems in malls, parks, and other public settings ]]> 2020-09-17 17:09:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756188708 https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756200023 " As a “native” participant in coffeehouse conversations, I can attest that they often do feel quite ordinary, yet my experiences in a number of cultural settings remind me that the ways in which I and other Americans organize our schedules to combine casual conversation with the consumption of food and drink in a commercial retail space are by no means natural or universal." (660)]]> 2020-09-17 17:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756200023 https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756212565 2020-09-17 17:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756212565 https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756215028 The intended audience of these texts is professional, college-educated, and ideologically moderate to liberal with respect to social issues such as environmental
protection and cultural diversity; it is also largely female, or at least concerned
with the interests and welfare of middle-class women.]]> 2020-09-17 17:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756215028 https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756217966 "Skylar's statement, 'So maybe we can go out for coffee sometime,' is implicitly understandable to Will and the movie's audience as a proposition for a particular kind of social interaction: a scheduled, informal, face-to-face encounter between ostensible social equals in a coffeehouse or other commercial catering establishment." (660)]]> 2020-09-17 17:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cecileevers/fovkt4l3zhudsoq4/wish/756217966