Beer Festivals – elaborating “Craft"

Authors

  • Lilian Verena Hoenigsberg Krohn Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-8099.pcso.2017.143004

Keywords:

Economic Sociolog, Markets, Festivals, Craft, Beer

Abstract

This article’s main goal is showing how craft beer fairs and festivals play a role not only as Market places where goods circulate and are exchanged; but are also key sites of market emergence and formation. There, discourses and representations of craft circulate among producers and consumers, and those can openly articulate their actions for commercial and political goals. These spaces are permeated with symbolical and political meaning for those breweries which aim at being considered as craft. It is there that the values of quality and identity are built, making craft beer its own product category; and it is also there that producers can seek collective action in order to protect and develop their own market space. Thus, we may consider festivals and fairs as part of the process of constituting both the market and their agents

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Author Biography

  • Lilian Verena Hoenigsberg Krohn, Universidade de São Paulo
    Mestranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia da Universidade de São Paulo (PPGS/ USP).

Published

2017-11-24

How to Cite

Krohn, L. V. H. (2017). Beer Festivals – elaborating “Craft". Plural, 24(2), 229-252. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-8099.pcso.2017.143004