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The Heritage Arena

Reinventing Cheese in the Italian Alps

By: Cristina Grasseni

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The Heritage Arena

Reinventing Cheese in the Italian Alps

By: Cristina Grasseni

In Europe a number of production and communication strategies have long tried to establish local products as resources for local development. At the foot of the Alps, this scenario appears in all its contradictions, especially in relation to cheese production. The Heritage Arena focuses on the saga of Strachitunt, a cheese that has been designated an EU Protected Designation of Origin after years of negotiation and competition involving cheese-makers, merchants, and Slow Food activists. The book explores how the reinvention of cheese as a form of heritage is an ongoing and dynamic process rife with conflict and drama.

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Berghahn Books

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1785332953

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9781785332951

Beyond Alternative Food Networks

Italy’s Solidarity Purchase Groups

By: Cristina Grasseni

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Beyond Alternative Food Networks

Italy’s Solidarity Purchase Groups

By: Cristina Grasseni

Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism from farmer's markets, organic food movements to Fair Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN) scene: GAS (gruppi di acquisto solidale or solidarity-based purchase groups) and explores the innovative social dynamics underlying these networks and the reasons behind their success. Based on a detailed 'insider' ethnography, this study interprets the principles behind these movements and key themes such as collective buying, relationships with local producers and consumers, financial management, to the everyday political and practical negotiation involving GAS groups. Vitally, the author demonstrates how GAS processes are key to providing survival strategies for small farms, local food chains and sustainable agriculture as a whole. Beyond Alternative Food Networks offers a fresh and engaged approach to this area, demonstrating the capacity for individuals to join organised forms of alternative political ecologies and impact upon their local food systems and practices. These social groups help to create new economic circuits that help promote sustainability, both for the environment and labor practices. Beyond Alternative Food Networks provides original insight and in-depth analysis of the alternative food network now thriving in Italy, and highlights ways such networks become embedded in active citizenship practices, cooperative relationships, and social networks.

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A&C Black

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0857852299

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9780857852298

The Heritage Arena

Reinventing Cheese in the Italian Alps

By: Cristina Grasseni

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Reinventing Cheese in the Italian Alps

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Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography

A Practical and Theoretical Guide

By: Cristina Grasseni,Bart Barendregt,Erik de Maaker,Federico De Musso,Andrew Littlejohn,Marianne Maeckelbergh,Metje Postma,Mark R. Westmoreland

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Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography

A Practical and Theoretical Guide

By: Cristina Grasseni,Bart Barendregt,Erik de Maaker,Federico De Musso,Andrew Littlejohn,Marianne Maeckelbergh,Metje Postma,Mark R. Westmoreland

Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography is a state-of-the-art introduction to this dynamic and growing subject. The authors explain its fundamental aspects in a clear and systematic way. The chapters cover topics including: learning to see and listen in the field and the role of sensory attention the mediation of the senses doing anthropological fieldwork with video observational filmmaking ethnographic drawing multimodal anthropology digital ethnography interactive documentary the ethics and management of audiovisual and digital data. The result is a much-needed, up-to-date and concise guide to both the fundamental skills required for audiovisual and digital ethnographic production and the essential theoretical knowledge relating to this. It will be particularly useful for students and scholars in the fields of Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Social Sciences, Media, Design, Art Practice and Sound Studies.

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Routledge

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1000484890

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9781000484892

Developing Skill, Developing Vision

Practices of Locality at the Foot of the Alps

By: Cristina Grasseni

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Developing Skill, Developing Vision

Practices of Locality at the Foot of the Alps

By: Cristina Grasseni

Many people feel that the impact of technology and the pressure of the market economy on alpine communities leads to a loss of biodiversity, authenticity and cultural diversity, affecting animal husbandry, local food production, social networks and traditions. It is undeniable that "progress," "development" and "integration" are transforming working routines, recipes for dairy production and patterns of communication in rural communities. This book explores the many tensions at the core of present local practices and debates in the Italian Alps, highlighting the many transformations undergone within skilled practice and cultural heritage as a result of commoditization, professionalization and technification, with a special focus on the ways in which this also means, quite literally, changing one's vision of locality: of the landscape, of local products and of local animals.

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Berghahn Books

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1845455371

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9781845455378

Milanese Encounters

Public Space and Vision in Contemporary Urban Italy

By: Cristina Moretti

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Milanese Encounters

Public Space and Vision in Contemporary Urban Italy

By: Cristina Moretti

Milanese Encounters examines how the acts of looking, recognizing, and being seen reflect social relations and power structures in contemporary Milan.

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