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"Terroir -izing Land: Property, Value, and Wine in Georgia"
| Location: | Georgia |
| Lecture Date: | 2010-07-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-06-25 |
| Announcement ID: |
177110 |
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Terroir -izing Land: Property, Value, and Wine in Georgia
Adam Walker, PhD (City University of New York)
Thursday, July 1, 2010
17:30 – 18:30
ISET building (CRRC)
Zandukeli 16
Tbilisi, Georgia
Adam Walker will be presenting his PhD research: The question of the eventual success of the Georgian wine industry on the international wine market is the subject of intense scrutiny among a variety of state, private, and development interests within Georgia, a focus which has, since privatization, considerably narrowed the scope of rural interventions. This focus on wine is understandable since, aside from its status as a privileged export commodity, wine is a beverage that has wide-ranging symbolic and political importance in Georgia. As an essential requirement in toasting during the supra, wine operates as a complex symbol that mediates conflicting ideologies of consumption, idealized forms of sociality, and claims to nation and “tradition.”
Yet the particularities of decollectivization and privatization of land and wineries have produced a disjuncture between the interests of large-scale producers and re-traditionalized, land-holding farmers. This paper is an attempt to articulate how the increasing economic and social inequality that is part and parcel of the neoliberalizing postsocialist Georgian landscape can be analyzed by foregrounding the contestation over the meaning and value of wine and its intersection with claims over property and terroir. In particular, the push to integrate Georgian wine production into an international marketplace by a matrix of state, private, and international-development interests is accompanied by a range of techniques which, in the name of the “protection of Georgian wine appellations,” may increasingly reconfigure the bases on which the construction and consolidation of value can take place, and claims by rural populations for state-intervention can be legitimized.
This presentation is sponsored by the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) and the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC).
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Talin Lindsay
c/o Professor Adam T. Smith
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
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