Session
Architecture
Description
The coffee culture in the Balkans spread and developed as the Ottoman Empire began using the region as a base that opened into Europe. This region with great strategic significance draws attention not only because it functioned as a bridge between the East and the West but also because of cultural and political values in perspective of the process of changes and developments that have taken place throughout time. As an establishment the coffeehouse is a vital concept for society. Beside their fundamental functions, coffeehouses have gained additional functions over the course of history. These additional functions are directed by socio-cultural and political behaviours. This research paper aims to focus on the socio-cultural and political roles of the coffee culture and coffeehouses with regard to the independence and liberation movements that took place with beginning with the disintegration of Yugoslavia, particularly in Kosovo. Within this context, the crucial role of coffeehouses is explained through the struggle every fraction of society went through to keep their own cultural and political identities alive in order to pull through the negative circumstances created in Kosovo by the wars experienced in the region in the 1990s. Furthermore, this paper also aims to reveal the significant role coffeehouses and their spatial functions play when a nation undertakes the immense challenge of emancipation.
Keywords:
Coffee Culture, Interior Spaces, Socio-Cultural and Political Perspectives
Session Chair
Lulzim Beqiri
Session Co-Chair
Skender Kosumi
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-33-2
First Page
17
Last Page
22
Location
Durres, Albania
Start Date
8-11-2014 9:30 AM
End Date
8-11-2014 9:45 AM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2014.2
Recommended Citation
Bajmaku, Ajhan and Nartar, Çınar, "The socio-cultural and political significance of coffeehouses and coffee culture during the independence processes of Kosovo" (2014). UBT International Conference. 2.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2014/all-events/2
Included in
The socio-cultural and political significance of coffeehouses and coffee culture during the independence processes of Kosovo
Durres, Albania
The coffee culture in the Balkans spread and developed as the Ottoman Empire began using the region as a base that opened into Europe. This region with great strategic significance draws attention not only because it functioned as a bridge between the East and the West but also because of cultural and political values in perspective of the process of changes and developments that have taken place throughout time. As an establishment the coffeehouse is a vital concept for society. Beside their fundamental functions, coffeehouses have gained additional functions over the course of history. These additional functions are directed by socio-cultural and political behaviours. This research paper aims to focus on the socio-cultural and political roles of the coffee culture and coffeehouses with regard to the independence and liberation movements that took place with beginning with the disintegration of Yugoslavia, particularly in Kosovo. Within this context, the crucial role of coffeehouses is explained through the struggle every fraction of society went through to keep their own cultural and political identities alive in order to pull through the negative circumstances created in Kosovo by the wars experienced in the region in the 1990s. Furthermore, this paper also aims to reveal the significant role coffeehouses and their spatial functions play when a nation undertakes the immense challenge of emancipation.