Contested Values and Sustainable Livelihoods of Artisanal Alcohol

酒精是一种独特的商品，因为它对全世界的社会来说既是一种负债，也是一种资产。该项目的目标是调查在经济紧缩和通过文化资产管理再生机会的背景下，与手工酒精相关的动态，机会和不利因素。跨学科研究人员的目标是研究手工酒精作为一个共同问题的复杂性，这个问题有可能既增强能力又危及生计。研究人员探讨了城市和农村社区是否以及如何在努力减轻对人民的伤害的同时，时尚和保护他们的遗产。这项研究有助于澄清手工酒精如何以及为什么会成为一个有争议的地方，文化，传统，经济和健康的象征。研究人员与手工酿酒商、当地学者、学生和政策制定者合作，以揭示知识、确定最佳实践、建设当地能力，并为文化敏感和有效的酒精相关政策提供信息。拟议的案例研究以社区身份、价值、健康和社会关系的形式探索手工酿酒的遗产，并动员合作民族志研究其在当地经济和社会中的地位。访谈、调查、消费日记和社会经济网络的自画像被用来生成开放访问的在线StoryMaps和出版物。该项目还包括对手工酒精对日常生活的社会影响进行科学分析和检查。能力建设工作包括支持代表性不足的机构优先事项和学生培训目标。该研究在经济人类学领域推进理论，揭示了文化资产，发展和福祉的价值化和稳定化相互交织的程度，该研究阐明了生产者和消费者如何在经济，社会，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Alcohol is a unique commodity, as it can be both a liability and asset to societies worldwide. The objective of this project is to investigate the dynamics, opportunities, and downsides associated with artisanal alcohol in the context of economic retrenchment and regeneration opportunities through cultural asset management. The interdisciplinary researchers aim to study the complexities of artisanal alcohol as a commons problem that has the potential to both empower and imperil livelihoods. The researchers explore if and how urban and rural communities fashion and protect their heritage while working to mitigate harm to their people. This study helps to clarify how and why artisanal alcohol can become a contested symbol of place, culture, tradition, economics, and health. The researchers partner with crafters of artisanal alcohol, local academicians, students, and policymakers to uncover knowledge, determine best practices, build local capacities, and inform culturally sensitive and effective alcohol-related policies.The proposed case study explores artisanal alcohol’s heritage in the form of community identity, value, health, and social relations, and mobilizes collaborative ethnography to investigate its place in the local economy and society. Interviews, surveys, consumption diaries, and a socioeconomic network of self-portraits are used to generate open access online StoryMaps and publications. The project also includes scientific analysis and examination of the societal impacts of artisanal alcohol to daily life. Capacity-building endeavors include support of underrepresented institutional priorities and student training goals. Advancing theory in the field of economic anthropology, the study reveals the extent to which the valorization and contestation of cultural assets, development, and wellbeing are intertwined, and the study elucidates how producers and consumers may be better positioned for crisis response and economic resiliency when they are closely tied economically, socially, and spatially.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.