TY - JOUR
T1 - Liquid indigeneity
T2 - Wine, science, and colonial politics in Israel/Palestine
AU - Monterescu, Daniel
AU - Handel, Ariel
N1 - Funding Information:
. We wish to thank our interlocutors for granting us access and for sharing their stories and craft. Maram Masarwi, Naor Ben Yehoyada, Irus Braverman, Ronen Shamir, Haim Hazan, Liron Shani, Rafi Grosglik, Azri Amram, Yossi Shavit, Naama Blatman-Thomas, AlHakam Shaar, and John Comaroff offered valuable comments on an earlier version. Special thanks are due to AE’s anonymous reviewers, editor, editorial assistant, and copyeditor for their generosity and insight throughout the writing process. This project was made possible in part by a research grant from Central European University. An early version of this article was presented at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in February 2018.
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PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
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
VL - 46
SP - 313
EP - 327
JO - American Ethnologist
JF - American Ethnologist
SN - 0094-0496
IS - 3
ER -