TY - JOUR
T1 - Liquid indigeneity
T2 - Wine, science, and colonial politics in Israel/Palestine
AU - Monterescu, Daniel
AU - Handel, Ariel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors. American Ethnologist published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Anthropological Association
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Israel/Palestine is a site of bitter struggle over definitions of indigeneity and settlerness. In 2008 the first Palestinian “indigenous wine” was released, introducing a discourse of primordial place-based authenticity into the wine field. Today, winemakers, scientists, autochthonous grapes, and native wines reconfigure the field of gastronationalism. Palestinian and Israeli wine industries can now claim exclusive historical entitlement in a global era in which terroir, that is, the idiosyncratic place, shapes economic and cultural value. Against the dominance of “international varieties,” this indigenous turn in the wine world mobilizes genetics, enology, and ancient texts to rewrite the longue durée of the Israeli/Palestinian landscape. The appropriation of the indigenous grape illustrates the power of science, craft, and taste to reconfigure the human and nonhuman politics of settler colonialism. [settler colonialism, science, gastronationalism, authenticity, wine, terroir, Israel, Palestine].
AB - Israel/Palestine is a site of bitter struggle over definitions of indigeneity and settlerness. In 2008 the first Palestinian “indigenous wine” was released, introducing a discourse of primordial place-based authenticity into the wine field. Today, winemakers, scientists, autochthonous grapes, and native wines reconfigure the field of gastronationalism. Palestinian and Israeli wine industries can now claim exclusive historical entitlement in a global era in which terroir, that is, the idiosyncratic place, shapes economic and cultural value. Against the dominance of “international varieties,” this indigenous turn in the wine world mobilizes genetics, enology, and ancient texts to rewrite the longue durée of the Israeli/Palestinian landscape. The appropriation of the indigenous grape illustrates the power of science, craft, and taste to reconfigure the human and nonhuman politics of settler colonialism. [settler colonialism, science, gastronationalism, authenticity, wine, terroir, Israel, Palestine].
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85069925677&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/amet.12827
DO - 10.1111/amet.12827
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85069925677
SN - 0094-0496
VL - 46
SP - 313
EP - 327
JO - American Ethnologist
JF - American Ethnologist
IS - 3
ER -