‘Brewing the Truth’: Craft Beer, Class and Place in Contemporary London
‘Brewing the Truth’: Craft Beer, Class and Place in Contemporary London
复制标题
“酿造真相”:当代伦敦的精酿啤酒、阶级和场所
作者:
Andrew Wallace
Neo-artisanal production is a growing milieu of contemporary urban cultural economy. This article positions one area of this neo-artisanship – ‘craft’ beer brewing – as pivotal to this urban milieu. It draws on 25 qualitative interviews with craft brewers and brewery owners in London and critically unpacks how the ‘crafting’ of beer involves entanglements with and alterations of social and material space. The article offers accounts of London craft brewery owners’ creative and commercial dispositions and the spatial and aesthetic patterns emerging out of London’s craft beer boom and troubles the weaving of craft brewing by policymakers and real estate developers into restructuring and place-making agendas. The article suggests that the ‘authentication’ of livelihoods, tastes and places through the tactile promise of ‘craft’ cannot be decoupled from patterns of socio-spatial stratification and growing precarity and casts doubt upon any ‘creative’ urban economy shifting in this direction.
DOI:
10.1111/1467-954x.12335
发表时间:
2015
期刊:
The Sociological Review
影响因子:
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作者:
Atkinson W
通讯作者:
Atkinson W