‘The space where everyone is welcome’; Tensions of class performance and exclusion in the Amsterdamse bruine kroeg
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2024-07-12
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For this thesis I’ve used ethnographic methods to find out how middle-classness is performed by different categorisations of people in two bruine kroegen (Dutch brown bars) in Amsterdam’s city centre. Here, I did observations and had semi- or unstructured interviews, mainly with regular visitors of this space, with experts on the topic of the bruine kroeg, and with a new young urban middle-class (the Havermelk Elite). The bruine kroeg is generally seen as a worker’s space ‘for all layers of society’, and therefore a space that should be protected as part of Dutch culture. In this thesis, I aim to deconstruct the view of the bruine kroeg of the Utrechtsestraat as a workers' space, or a space where everyone is welcome. Contrarily, I show how they are social spaces for the urban middle-class white Dutch inhabitant of the affluent urban village. The thesis tells the story of the clash of their middle-class performance of the two middle-class groups that are present in the two kroegen. Important for that story, are also those who are not present; they’re physically excluded on the basis of race, class, and other intersecting identity factors takes place through power that’s provided by different forms of capital.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen