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Oscar Krüger

Postdoctoral fellow

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Peasant in a Bottle : Infrastructures of Containment for an Italian Wine Cooperative

Author

  • Oscar Krüger

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Human Ecology
  • Department of Human Geography

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Publication/Series

Ethnos

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences

Keywords

  • artisanal wine
  • Containers
  • infrastructure
  • Italy
  • terroir

Status

Epub

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0014-1844