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Enacting New Nordic terroir as rootless American innovation or soiled European tradition?

Ostrowski, Kasper (2013) Enacting New Nordic terroir as rootless American innovation or soiled European tradition? Keynote presentation at: First Nordic STS Conference, Norway, Trondheim, Værnes, Rica Hell Hote, 24.-26. April, 2013. [Completed]

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The governing of food quality and food security is often intertwined with regional development and the notion of terroir pivotal - not least when considering cheese production. Terroir, however, is primarily understood in a strictly European sense, accentuating soil and tradition. Drawing on readings of ‘dairy produce strategies’ and deploying a possible world induced STS attitude, a crude model for differentiating American and European enactments of terroir is investigated in this paper. I claim that in the US, geographical claims are ‘uprooted’ and generally highlight alethic modalities – centerstaging individual competence and innovation. Geographical claims in EU, on the other hand, steers towards communal practices and deontic modalities grounded in soil and tradition. Both food systems make use of sustainable claims, but render their authority from different institutions of legitimacy. In Europe the concept of collective regional enterprises or consortiums flourishes. In the US collective patrimony is less propagated, whereas privately owned farms and production facilities secure personal recognition through intellectual property.


EPrint Type:Conference paper, poster, etc.
Type of presentation:Keynote presentation
Agrovoc keywords:
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English
Terroir
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US
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Subjects: Values, standards and certification
Research affiliation: Denmark > Organic RDD 1 > MultiTrust
Deposited By: Ostrowski, Dr. Kasper
ID Code:24623
Deposited On:21 Nov 2013 10:45
Last Modified:21 Nov 2013 10:45
Document Language:English
Status:Unpublished
Refereed:Not peer-reviewed
Additional Publishing Information:Deliverable 4.4.2

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