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Class in a Glass: Capital, Neoliberalism and Social Space in the Global Wine Industry
Author(s) -
Overton John,
Murray Warwick E.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01042.x
Subject(s) - restructuring , neoliberalism (international relations) , context (archaeology) , consumption (sociology) , capital (architecture) , class (philosophy) , wine , capital accumulation , sociology , class formation , social class , economics , space (punctuation) , social capital , economic system , economic geography , political economy , market economy , political science , social science , human capital , geography , law , politics , epistemology , philosophy , physics , archaeology , finance , optics , linguistics
This paper explores the evolving relationship between class and capital in the neoliberalised global wine industry. Wine is a unique sector that is possessed of intricate and underexplored aspects of class formation. Having investigated the recent restructuring of the industry under neoliberalism the paper goes on to analyse class formations in the production and consumption spheres. In this discussion we note not only the concrete economic and social dynamics of change, in terms of the differing fortunes of consumers, investors, landowners and workers, but also the physical and symbolic expressions of class in and through the countryside, as manifested in changing landscapes, discourses and idylls. In conclusion we analyse relationship between capital, class formation and accumulation across and within different scales in the context of a rapidly globalising sector that is so rooted in place.