Natural Resources and their Units. Necessary Measures of Resourcefulness in a Norwegian Fruit Landscape
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Natural Resources and their Units. Necessary Measures of Resourcefulness in a Norwegian Fruit Landscape. / Hastrup, Frida.
In: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2020, p. 63-79.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Natural Resources and their Units. Necessary Measures of Resourcefulness in a Norwegian Fruit Landscape
AU - Hastrup, Frida
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Dating back to medieval times, fruit cultivation in Hardanger in western Norway is rooted in what is portrayed as a perfect microclimate naturally yielding the best apples in the world. However, the viability of the comparatively minute Norwegian fruit trade is continuously threatened by competition from outside, spurring all kinds of initiatives and policies to make it sustainable. The Norwegian fruit landscape, in other words, is both the natural and perfect home of world-class fruit and a site for continuous, often state-driven interventions to make it so; indeed, the perfection of the place accentuates the need to do what it takes to make it thrive. The necessary means to accomplish such viability, however, make up a complex terrain, as the resourcefulness of the Norwegian fruit landscape is ‘measured’ according to very different units.
AB - Dating back to medieval times, fruit cultivation in Hardanger in western Norway is rooted in what is portrayed as a perfect microclimate naturally yielding the best apples in the world. However, the viability of the comparatively minute Norwegian fruit trade is continuously threatened by competition from outside, spurring all kinds of initiatives and policies to make it sustainable. The Norwegian fruit landscape, in other words, is both the natural and perfect home of world-class fruit and a site for continuous, often state-driven interventions to make it so; indeed, the perfection of the place accentuates the need to do what it takes to make it thrive. The necessary means to accomplish such viability, however, make up a complex terrain, as the resourcefulness of the Norwegian fruit landscape is ‘measured’ according to very different units.
U2 - 10.3167/ajec.2020.290105
DO - 10.3167/ajec.2020.290105
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 63
EP - 79
JO - Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
JF - Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
SN - 1755-2923
IS - 1
ER -
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