Oscar Krüger
Postdoctoral fellow
Peasant in a Bottle : Infrastructures of Containment for an Italian Wine Cooperative
Author
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