David Inglis - The Globalization of Wine

The Globalization of Wine

The Globalization of Wine

Edited by

David Inglis and Anna-Mari Almila

Also available from Bloomsbury:

Food and Globalization, Alexander Nuetzenadel and Frank Trentmann

The Globalization of Food, David Inglis and Debra Gimlin

Wine and Culture, Rachel E. Black and Robert C. Ulin

Veiling in Fashion, Anna-Mari Almila

This book is a tribute to:

Davide of Salerno and Glasgow and Renato of Gidleigh Park

Two great men who really knew their wines

Editors

Anna-Mari Almila is Research Fellow in Sociology of Fashion at London College of Fashion, UAL. She writes in the fields of cultural, global and historical sociology, and her topics include the historical/political construction of urban spaces, the materiality of dressed bodies and their environments, fashion globalization, history of fashion studies, and gendered wine mediation and consumption. She is the author of Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities (I.B. Tauris, 2018) and the editor (with David Inglis) of The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices (2017) and The Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology (2016).

David Inglis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki. Before that, he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter and the University of Aberdeen. He holds degrees in sociology from the Universities of Cambridge and York. He writes in the areas of cultural sociology, the sociology of globalization, historical sociology, the sociology of food and drink and social theory, both modern and classical. He has written and edited various books in these areas, most recently The Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology and The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices (with Anna-Mari Almila). He is founding editor of the Sage/BSA journal Cultural Sociology. His current research concerns the sociological analysis of the global wine industry.

Other contributors

Pierre-Marie Chauvin is Associate Professor of Sociology at Sorbonne University. He has been Vice Dean for Human and Financial Resources (Sorbonne University, Arts & Humanities Faculty) since 2018. His research interests include economic sociology, sociology of reputations and visual sociology. His PhD focused on the construction of reputations in the Bordeaux wine community (Le March des Rputations. Une sociologie du monde des Grands Crus bordelais, Bordeaux, Fret, 2010) and has been awarded by the Acadmie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux and by the Gourmand Awards (Best Book for Professionals). Since then, he has especially been working on a more general theory of reputations, not only in the wine industry but also in other economic, artistic and social worlds.

Marion Demossier holds a Chair in Anthropology in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton. She has previously taught French and European politics and society at the University of Bath. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the EHESS (cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris. She has published more than twenty scholarly articles in leading academic journals in Britain, France and the United States, including the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Cultural Analysis, the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures and Modern and Contemporary France. She has recently completed her third monograph on the anthropology of wine and terroir: Burgundy: a Global Anthropology of Place and Taste (Berghahn, 2018). She has also written widely for a student audience, contributing chapters to prestigious series such as A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe and Culinary Taste.

Hang Kei Ho is Lecturer in Globalization and Development in the Department of Technology and Society Studies within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. He previously worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University, Sweden. He also worked in the UK as Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of York and Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. His current research themes include the geographies of consumption in relation to cultural identity, the global alcohol industry with a specific focus on wine consumption in Hong Kong, the changing identity of Hong Kong with respect to mainland China and the West, and the super-rich and the flow of capital from South East Asia to the UK property market. He obtained his PhD in Geography from University College London with a thesis entitled Drinking Bordeaux in the New Hong Kong: Exploring Changing Identities through Alcohol Consumption. Before academia, he worked in education, real estate consultancy, IT and engineering. He also holds an MSc in Geography from University College London, an MA in Digital Culture and Technology from Kings College London, and an MEng (Hons) in e-Commerce Engineering from Queen Mary, University of London.

Peter J. Howland is a lecturer in sociology at Massey University in New Zealand. Formerly a journalist (by mistake) and an anthropologist by training, Peter has an enduring interest in wine production, consumption and tourism, and particularly its implications for the various expressions and enactments of middle-class identities (including reflexive individuality), distinctions and values, and associated constructions of place, leisure and sociality. He is the editor of Social, Cultural and Economic Impacts of Wine in New Zealand (Routledge, 2014) and co-editor (with Assoc. Prof. Jacqueline Dutton, University of Melbourne) of Wine, Terroir and Utopia: Making New Worlds (Routledge, 2019). Peter also researches lotto gambling, gifting and dying/death.

Bjrn Kjellgren is Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He has a PhD in Sinology and has previously worked as a researcher in social anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Stockholm University, where his main research interests have been related to identity, communication and other forms of social interaction.

Justin Otten is an adjunct professor at Indiana Universitys Russian & East European Institute, where he teaches area studies coursework focusing on the post-communist and ongoing changes occurring in Central & Eastern Europe. Otten previously resided and worked in the Republic of Macedonia and the wider Balkan region through work with the US Peace Corps and American Councils, where he then conducted research for his doctorate in social anthropology from the University of Kent, Canterbury.

Jennifer Smith Maguire is Professor of Cultural Production and Consumption in Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University. Her research focuses on processes of cultural production and consumption in the construction of markets, tastes and value, often set within the empirical context of super-premium wine markets and market intermediaries. She has published her research in such journals as Journal of Consumer Culture and Consumption, Markets & Culture, and is the author of Fit for Consumption: Sociology and the Business of Fitness (Routledge, 2008), editor of Food Practices and Social Inequality (Routledge, 2018) and co-editor of The Cultural Intermediaries Reader (Sage, 2014).

Ian Malcolm Taplin is Professor of Sociology, Management and International Studies at Wake Forest University, North Carolina. He has published extensively on the wine industry, in North Carolina, Napa and Bordeaux. The latter two areas are part of a collaborative project examining trends in ultra-premium or iconic wines and how they are changing in the face of increased global markets for wines. His earlier work was on work relations in the clothing industry. He teaches courses on business and society and international business.