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Infrastructuring ‘Red Gold’: Agronomists, Cold Chains, and the Involution of Serbia’s Raspberry Country
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SYSNO ASEP 0584607 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Infrastructuring ‘Red Gold’: Agronomists, Cold Chains, and the Involution of Serbia’s Raspberry Country Author(s) Thiemann, André (UEF-S) ORCID Number of authors 1 Source Title Ethnos - ISSN 0014-1844
Roč. 89, č. 2 (2024), s. 289-311Number of pages 23 s. Publication form Online - E Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords Agronomics ; cold chain ; food ; infrastructural involution ; Serbia ; value Subject RIV AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology OECD category Antropology, ethnology Method of publishing Limited access Institutional support UEF-S - RVO:68378076 UT WOS 000947064000001 EID SCOPUS 85149828637 DOI 10.1080/00141844.2022.2163271 Annotation Serbia has exported raspberries since socialism. Its production network withstood the post-Yugoslav property transformations and grew despite global competition. This article traces the configuration of the ‘infrastructures of value’ that underwrite the raspberries’ spatio-temporal reach to distant markets. Combining new and historical materialism, it contributes to economic anthropology by studying the interplay between two infrastructures – agronomics and the ‘cold chain’ – and their
differential weathering of historical transformations. During socialism, the agronomists infrastructured’ the environment in collaboration with farmers and plants, while the containment technologists upgraded the freezing infrastructure, solidifying the fruits into graded, storable, and transportable commodities. After socialism, private entrepreneurs replicated the cold-chain modules, while agronomic research and quality control became de-institutionalised. As the agronomic infrastructure stagnated, the cold chain went into overdrive. In this latecapitalist ‘infrastructural involution’, political-economic transformations reshaped multispecies infrastructures, devaluing the contributions of plants and rural labour while benefiting entrepreneurs and wholesalers.Workplace Institute of Ethnology Contact Veronika Novotná, novotna@eu.cas.cz, Tel.: 532 290 277 Year of Publishing 2024 Electronic address https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00141844.2022.2163271
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