Anna Krzywoszynska
What Farmers Know: Experiential Knowledge and Care in Vine Growing
Krzywoszynska, Anna
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Abstract
This article contributes to the critical debate on the choreographies of care in farming (Law) through an exploration of the inter-dependence of care and situated expertise in the context of vine work. It argues that care as the totality of those activities which enable the maintenance, continuation, and repair of the farming ‘world’, to paraphrase Fisher and Tronto's classic definition, depends on experiential knowledge. According to Dreyfus and Dreyfus attentiveness, responsiveness, and adaptation to the material environment are characteristic of high levels of expertise. Attentiveness, responsiveness, and adaptation are also what characterises good care (Tronto; Mol). Through an autoethnographic account of acquiring competence in vine work, the article illustrates how through practical engagement with the material and social environment of the farm key elements of the logic of care (Mol) are acquired. In conclusion, the article indicates some consequences of putting experiential knowledge at the heart of multi-scalar and multi-temporal cares farmers are increasingly asked to attend to.
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Krzywoszynska, A. (2016). What Farmers Know: Experiential Knowledge and Care in Vine Growing. Sociologia Ruralis, 56(2), 289-310. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12084
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Mar 24, 2015 |
Publication Date | Apr 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Mar 4, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 24, 2017 |
Journal | Sociologia Ruralis |
Print ISSN | 0038-0199 |
Electronic ISSN | 1467-9523 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 56 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 289-310 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12084 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1413929 |
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This is the accepted version of the following article: Krzywoszynska, A. (2016), What Farmers Know: Experiential Knowledge and Care in Vine Growing. Sociologia Ruralis, 56(2): 289-310, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soru.12084. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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