Wine, Tourism, and the Economy Of Food
Conveners: John Claridge, Anthropology, University of Adelaide; David Raftery, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University
Panel description: In order to understand the significance of food and drink in contemporary society, scholars such as Mintz (1985) and Roseberry (1988) have underscored the importance of mapping the complex socio-economic, and historical terrain over which food travels. Such themes highlight the relations of power that structure the usually taken for granted economic concerns that exist between the production, and eventual consumption of food and drink in diverse communities. Food and wine tourism are social practices that bridge the gap between local communities and transnational forms of consumption. Discourses concerning naturalised and bioorganic foodways products make the integrity of the entire production process their central marketing feature. However, conflicts surrounding the sustainability of traditional rural livelihoods and water on the one hand, and the globalised movement of people and economic interests on the other, speak of the demise of rural social capital. The papers in this panel explore socio-economic practices and social relationships, in relation to changes in the environment, and global practices of foodways consumption, examining the role of the state, local authorities and corporate bodies in marketing and legitimating particular discourses and practices surrounding places, rural lifeworlds, and their relationship to food, drink and wine.
Abstracts
David Raftery, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University - Getting to the bottom of the wine lake: the social relations of over-production in the Clare Valley, South Australia
Dr. Bhensri Naemiratch, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine
Monash University (Caulfield Campus) - ‘Even the Deities Drink Pepsi’: Dietary Change in Contemporary Thailand
John Claridge, Anthropology, University of Adelaide - ‘Come to your Senses, Come to South Australia’
