[IYRPsupportgroup] Updates of research on cheese production on alpine pastures

[Letizia Bindi]

Dear all,
I received this update from a colleague, ERC Project's owner on Cultural
Anthropology, working on microbiology and socio-cultural and political
issues.
She just edited this paper I think could be interesting to post on our
website.
I included Roberta Raffaetà in this email in case you need more information
on her research and activities.
Best regards to you all,
letizia bindi

Roberta Raffaetà, University of Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy


*Microbial Antagonism in the Trentino AlpsNegotiating Spacetimes and
Ownership through the Productionof Raw Milk Cheese in Alpine High Mountain
Summer Pastures*
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/714348
Abstract:

In this paper I analyze fermentation practices in the production of cheese
in Alpine high mountain summer pastures and their connection to politics of
space, heritage, and ownership in times of ecological, social, scientific,
and economic transition. In the Trentino Alps, fermentation is a technology
for enacting different spacetimes in that it is not only a technical act
but is also connected to how people practice and give meaning to places. I
will focus on how fermentation participates in the composition of different
human, more-than-human, and microbial spacetimes, which I call “utopias,”
“heterotopias,” and “atopias.” In these spacetimes, fermentation translates
space into cheese through different logics: overlap, transduction, or
abstraction. Discussing how fermentation is managed and perceived gives us
the opportunity to reflect on who owns the Alps and leads to a debate on
how to constitute sustainable and just futures. Fermentation plays a key
role in scientific innovation as well as in social innovation as to how the
Alps will be assigned value and ownership.

Letizia Bindi
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology - University of Molise (Italy)
Director of BIOCULT - Centre of Research on Bio-Cultural Heritage and Local
Development
Via De Santis - II Edificio Polifunzionale - 86100 Campobasso (ITALY)
Mobile Phone: +393383202796 - Skype: letizia.bindi3 at gmail.com
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