Fermented Landscapes: Lively Processes of Socio-Environmental Transformation

Fermented Landscapes: Lively Processes of Socio-Environmental Transformation
ISBN-10
1496219899
ISBN-13
9781496219893
Category
Social Science
Pages
291
Language
English
Published
2020-04-01
Publisher
U of Nebraska Press
Author
Colleen C. Myles

Description

Fermented Landscapes applies the concept of fermentation as a mechanism through which to understand and analyze processes of landscape change. This comprehensive conceptualization of "fermented landscapes" examines the excitement, unrest, and agitation evident across shifting physical-environmental and sociocultural landscapes as related to the production, distribution, and consumption of fermented products. This collection includes a variety of perspectives on wine, beer, and cider geographies, as well as the geography of other fermented products, considering the use of "local" materials in craft beverages as a function of neolocalism and sustainability and the nonhuman elements of fermentation. Investigating the environmental, economic, and sociocultural implications of fermentation in expected and unexpected places and ways allows for a complex study of rural-urban exchanges or metabolisms over time and space--an increasingly relevant endeavor in socially and environmentally challenged contexts, global and local.

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