Geographical Turns and Historical Returns in Narrating French Wine Culture

Dutton, Jacqueline

doi:10.1080/20549547.2019.1570781

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“…This new approach drew on the recent work of geographer Paul Vidal de la Blache, Tableau de la géographie de la France (1903), with its theory of genre de vie linking lifestyle in a region to its economic, social, ideological, and psychological landscape. Together with the physical, regional and human geographers of the Annales school, Vidal de la Blache influenced the conceptualisation of links between place, product and people, describing how ‘le bon pays' produced good wines in Touraine and Burgundy which ennobled the winemakers and the region, while ‘le mauvais pays' only offered bad wines and suffering for the people who depended upon it (Dutton, 2019: 115–116).…”

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“…Successors to Vidal de la Blache were Roger Dion, with his seminal work L’Histoire de la vigne et du vin en France (2010) first published in 1959, reedited in 1991 and 2010; and Jean-Robert Pitte, whose prolific writings on wine are now being translated into English. As I have argued elsewhere, the impact of these three geographers is notable in redefining terroir as not only a geological, climactic, and topographical phenomenon, but a space which is also dependent on human intervention and tradition, including social and economic infrastructure (Dutton, 2019). Their geographically oriented discourses provided the dominant framework for narrating twentieth-century French wine culture.…”

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Pourquoi terroir? Reflections on French influences on Australian winemakers’ senses of place

Dutton

2023

French Cultural Studies

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Terroir is an untranslatable, unstable, and often undefinable French term frequently used in the global wine industry. This article focuses on the transnational potentialities and cultural transferability of terroir in reflecting on French influences on Australian winemakers’ senses of place. After outlining the evolution of terroir in France to demonstrate how and why it appears to have become a floating signifier, I examine the use of terroir in the Australian winemaking context. I thereby provide an example of how this French concept has travelled and been translated by Australian proponents of the term at the other end of the New World of wine. Finally, I present conclusions drawn from the particular case of French-Australian cultural transfers to demonstrate key features of the current state of terroir's globalisation.

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Pourquoi terroir? Reflections on French influences on Australian winemakers’ senses of place

Dutton

2023

French Cultural Studies

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“…At the same time, terroir has also been incorporated into Anglophone literature on food cultural studies (Gade, 2004;Singer, 2018;Trubek & Bowen, 2008;Unwin, 1991Unwin, , 2022. These studies converge with Francophone research on GIs, emphasising the agency of consumers for the creation and support of GI reputation and status, with additional value promoted when reputation is elevated as part of a nation's identity, playing a further role in protecting GIs as a public good (Gangjee, 2017;Dutton, 2019;Ramshaw, 2015). This literature, however, remains marginal in mainstream AFN research (Unwin, 2022).…”

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Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches

2022

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Globally, Padrón peppers are a widely known vegetable. Unknown to most, its origin lies in a small village, Herbón, located on the outskirts of the town of Padrón (Galicia, North‐West Spain). Local farmers have faced serious problems due to competition with producers from elsewhere commercialising peppers as ‘Padron’. In response, local farmers sought to protect the specificities of the place of origin, a claim leading to the achievement of a geographical indication (GI) label in 2009. This initiative has been controversial, as the name of the pepper and the town were appropriated by a private company, and the GI boundaries were disputed by producers across Galicia. In the context of recent theoretical discussions on food studies, this article makes use of a territorial/spatial approach that integrates Anglophone and Francophone literature to develop a transversal explanation of the development of the GI designation. The institutional landscape, the negotiation of the GI specificities of the food, the local food culture and the collective action of farmers are revealed as key issues in its evolution and establishment.

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“…Geography is perhaps the social science which engages most with wine matters, perhaps an unsurprising fact given the centrality of wine production to the agricultural and symbolic economies of major wine producing countries. French geographic studies have been particularly important in developing understandings of the historical development of wine-making in that country, with such major figures as Roger Dion (1959;also Delay and Chevallier, 2015;Dion and Timoner, 1994) and Jean-Robert Pitte (2000Pitte ( , 2013 profoundly contributing not only to analysis of the central role of wine in the French countryside, but also to shaping broader French public debates and self-understandings of the place of wine in the national culture and society (Dutton, 2019).…”

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Introduction to the Sociology of Wine—The Sociological Decanter: Pouring Sociology into Wine, and Vice Versa

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2022

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change

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Wine from grapes is both ancient and highly modern, increasingly widespread across vast swathes of the planet, and made, marketed and distributed by a huge industry that directly and indirectly employs millions of people and generates huge profits, at least for some. Yet despite wine's social and cultural importance, sociology and sociologists have remained remarkably quiet about wine, unlike those in other academic disciplines. There is today no such thing as a scholarly field called the sociology of wine. This introductory paper to the special issue on wine and sociology considers this state of affairs, and what might be done about overcoming the relative silence of sociology on wine matters. It offers an extensive literature review covering what international sociological work there is on the wine/sociology interface, considering this relatively modest body of literature in relation to the more voluminous amounts of wine-related analysis offered by anthropologists, geographers, economists, and others. These scholarly domains are represented in the paper by reference to classic works and indicative readings. The paper poses a series of questions as to what a sociological field of wine analysis could look like, and what it would take to build such a thing. It also illustrates how the papers published in the special issue contribute to posing and answering some of these questions.

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Geographical Turns and Historical Returns in Narrating French Wine Culture

Cited by 7 publications

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Pourquoi terroir? Reflections on French influences on Australian winemakers’ senses of place

Pourquoi terroir? Reflections on French influences on Australian winemakers’ senses of place

Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches

Introduction to the Sociology of Wine—The Sociological Decanter: Pouring Sociology into Wine, and Vice Versa

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