Peasant in a Bottle : Infrastructures of Containment for an Italian Wine Cooperative
(2023) In Ethnos- Abstract
On the market for quality wine, quality is generally defined by the liquid’s connection to a time, space, and person(s) of origin. This connection is achieved through material-discursive versions of terroir. While the consequences of this aesthetic regime have been well-studied, little attention has been given to the artefact through which the connection is enacted: the bottle. This paper, based on fieldwork with small-scale wine producers in Italy, asks what difference it makes for these artisanal producers to bottle their wine themselves. The analysis hones in on the bottle as a container embedded within an infrastructure of containment, and emphasises how the bottle as infrastructure re-orders the space–time of circulation. The... (More)
On the market for quality wine, quality is generally defined by the liquid’s connection to a time, space, and person(s) of origin. This connection is achieved through material-discursive versions of terroir. While the consequences of this aesthetic regime have been well-studied, little attention has been given to the artefact through which the connection is enacted: the bottle. This paper, based on fieldwork with small-scale wine producers in Italy, asks what difference it makes for these artisanal producers to bottle their wine themselves. The analysis hones in on the bottle as a container embedded within an infrastructure of containment, and emphasises how the bottle as infrastructure re-orders the space–time of circulation. The result has implications for container-mediated processes of production-exchange-consumption everywhere.
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- author
- Krüger, Oscar LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- epub
- subject
- keywords
- artisanal wine, Containers, infrastructure, Italy, terroir
- in
- Ethnos
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85149832656
- ISSN
- 0014-1844
- DOI
- 10.1080/00141844.2022.2163273
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- cc295ec9-d99b-4d96-b2d6-551b3e146ed5
- date added to LUP
- 2023-05-15 11:57:07
- date last changed
- 2023-09-19 09:25:21
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title = {{Peasant in a Bottle : Infrastructures of Containment for an Italian Wine Cooperative}},
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doi = {{10.1080/00141844.2022.2163273}},
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