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Caring for Olive Oil : Cultivating Flows, Crafts & Traditions
Olive oil is a food, but more than that, it is a social relation, cultural phenomenon, local practice, global industry, emplaced tradition, valued concern, cyclical rhythm, embodied care-work, multigenerational flow, kindred ecology, and cultivated craft. This is the case in the region of Puglia, the heel of Italy, where over half a million ancient olive trees and an entire landscape of olive groves bear witness to its heritage of making. This thesis builds on more than one and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork with Pugliese oliviculturalists. It uses sensory and multimodal methods for collecting and representing material, and takes creative ethnography as its frame for critical analysis. Through the concepts of flow and artful care, it advances the spatiotemporal dynamics of the making of Pugliese olive oil. It frames the work of research participants as situated craft and brings attention to embodied features of knowing and doing. It curiously explores how olive oil occurs practiced and lived from the perspective of practitioners, thus making the bodies and work of beyond-human agencies into account, making claims to the broad-scope ecology of life inherent in olivicoltura (olive culture). A major finding is that Pugliese oliviculturalists live landscape and work in rhythm with the atmospheric dynamics influencing it. Another is that traditions flow together with modern developments, growing local practices of craftsmanship while creating commodities in line with global market structures. The concepts of care and value are fundamental to the thesis. They are paramount to the lived (hi)stories of Pugliese oliviculturalists, hence to the narrations and analyses of this thesis.
Caring for Olive Oil : Cultivating Flows, Crafts & Traditions
Olive oil is a food, but more than that, it is a social relation, cultural phenomenon, local practice, global industry, emplaced tradition, valued concern, cyclical rhythm, embodied care-work, multigenerational flow, kindred ecology, and cultivated craft. This is the case in the region of Puglia, the heel of Italy, where over half a million ancient olive trees and an entire landscape of olive groves bear witness to its heritage of making. This thesis builds on more than one and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork with Pugliese oliviculturalists. It uses sensory and multimodal methods for collecting and representing material, and takes creative ethnography as its frame for critical analysis. Through the concepts of flow and artful care, it advances the spatiotemporal dynamics of the making of Pugliese olive oil. It frames the work of research participants as situated craft and brings attention to embodied features of knowing and doing. It curiously explores how olive oil occurs practiced and lived from the perspective of practitioners, thus making the bodies and work of beyond-human agencies into account, making claims to the broad-scope ecology of life inherent in olivicoltura (olive culture). A major finding is that Pugliese oliviculturalists live landscape and work in rhythm with the atmospheric dynamics influencing it. Another is that traditions flow together with modern developments, growing local practices of craftsmanship while creating commodities in line with global market structures. The concepts of care and value are fundamental to the thesis. They are paramount to the lived (hi)stories of Pugliese oliviculturalists, hence to the narrations and analyses of this thesis.
Caring for Olive Oil : Cultivating Flows, Crafts & Traditions
Linder, Elin (author)
2024-01-01
28
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
720
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