11 research outputs found
Why consumers drink natural wine? Consumer perception and information about natural wine
Similar to other foods, the concept of natural wine is much debated due to the lack of a clear and regulated definition, leading to a proliferation of heterogeneous norms and standards proposed from different natural wine associations at national levels. The current study explored the aspects which mediate individuals’ information and perception of natural wine, and the rationale behind natural wine consumption behavior among Italian (n = 501) and Spanish (n = 527) regular wine consumers. The results reveal a quite low self-reported degree of perceived information by Italian respondents and slightly higher levels among Spanish ones. The key drivers of natural wine consumption in both countries are wine consumption frequency, information, and natural product interest. In contrast, higher wine involvement levels decrease natural wine consumption frequency in both Italy and Spain. The findings also show that different perceptions lead to diverse motivations, suggesting the need for more homogeneous standards to mitigate the level of information asymmetry currently on the market
Archaeology and the global economic crisis. Multiple impacts, possible solutions (ed. Nathan Schlanger and Kenneth Aitchison)
The texts presented here are extended and updated versions of the papers given
at a session entitled “Archaeology and the global crisis - multiple impacts, possible
solutions”, held on the 17th September 2009 at the 15th annual meeting of
the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Riva del Garda, Italy. As coorganisers
of this session, we were particularly happy to see that over a hundred
colleagues attended and took part in some lively discussions, where sober realism
was mixed with hope and determination. The session furthermore benefitted from
the friendly atmosphere and excellent organisation of the EAA meeting itself, as
skilfully orchestrated by Franco Nicolis together with Martina Dalla Riva, their
teams and sponsors.
Indeed the European Association of Archaeologists as a whole, so we feel, has
amply fulfilled its vocation as meeting-ground and think-tank for professional
archaeologists from Europe and beyond (http://www.e-a-a.org). We are grateful
in any case that our session at Riva del Garda was sponsored – in an intellectual
sense – by three EAA committees or working parties. One is the “Committee on
archaeological legislation and organisation in Europe”, chaired by Christopher
Young and Jean-Paul Demoule: the crisis and the structural changes that follow
make the critical and comparative work of this committee more important than
ever before. Further support was received from the “Committee on professional
associations in archaeology”, chaired by Kenneth Aitchison, a committee that is
acutely concerned with working practices in European archaeology and how they
are being affected by the economic situation. The third and most recently created
of these EAA groups is the working party on “ACE - Archaeology in contemporary
Europe: professional practices and public outreach” (www.ace-archaeology.
eu) – a European Commission ‘Culture’ programme funded network gathering
a dozen of partners from across the continent to examine together the fields of
practice and social dimensions of contemporary archaeology. In addition to the
invaluable material support provided by the ACE network, many of its partners
contributed their comments and insights to the preparation of the ‘Crisis’ session,
and also through subsequent meetings in Thessaloniki (with our Aristotle
University partner) and in Budapest (with our KÖH partner). In this volume, ACE
partners have contributed the chapters on the situations in the Netherlands, Spain,
France and Poland. Another relevant European initiative is the “Discovering the
Archaeologists of Europe” project (www.discovering-archaeologists.eu), a review
of the archaeological labour market in twelve European Union states with the support
of the European Commission ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ programme in 2006-2008.
As data for the project were collected in 2007, at the height of the economic cycle,
they give us very valuable information and insights for critical comparisons with
the ongoing crisis situation.European Commission (through
the Culture 2007-2013 programme) in the
framework of the ACE project – “Archaeology
in Contemporary Europe. Professional Practices and Public Outreach”Peer reviewe
Mutating and Contested Languages of Wine : Heard on the Grapevine
Language is thoroughly bound up with wine in myriad ways, and the drinking of wine is very often accompanied with talk about it. This chapter considers the nature of wine tasting languages; the differences and rivalry between wine talk (of critics and suchlike persons) and wine language (of scientists and their allies in the wine world); how wine language is bound up with the creation of social hierarchies and senses of commonality among wine drinkers; contemporary trends towards hyper-specificity in wine vocabularies; and the changing nature of the argots in and through which wine is sold and labelled. In so doing, the chapter stresses the constantly changing, conflict-laden, and often contradictory and paradoxical nature of talk and language related to wine and wine drinking.Peer reviewe