Mark Anthony Arceño

The Ohio State University | OSU · Department of Comparative Studies

This article examines how central Ohio winegrowers are able to manufacture “the taste of place” in the midst of a dominant global discourse that maintains a rhetoric of anthropogenic climate change. Importantly, this work positions climate as not necessarily changing but rather as seemingly always being in a state of change. While relatively few wi...

Viticulture is a perennial agricultural system that is rooted in tradition but must also adapt to change (e.g. climate change, authorized rate of pesticide uses in the European Union). Viticulture includes a variety of practices whose objective is to produce wine grapes. To help viticulture systems adapt to changes, both field viticulture practices...

Drawing on eighteen months of fieldwork throughout central Ohio, USA, and Alsace, eastern France, I reflect on the importance of relying on more than just my eyes when collecting data. I illustrate examples of how I have felt, heard, smelled, tasted, and now talk about the changes that winegrowers identify in their vineyards, wine cellars, and tast...

Understandings of the terroir concept range from recognizing “the environment” as being largely responsible for affecting the taste of a place-based product like wine to considering the intervening role of social actors in its production. This article takes the perspective that non-human life forms, as well as non-living entities, are more than jus...

Currently available at http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1610041972377958 This dissertation analyzes how winegrowers in central Ohio and the eastern French region of Alsace respond to changes in their vineyards, wine cellars, and tasting rooms, as well as how changing ecological conditions influence changing social processes (and vice...

This article presents an analysis of gender perspectives that organize and sustain domestic culinary work among cisgender and heterosexual couples in the Brazilian Amazon. 19 semi-structured interviews were conducted with both women and men, with a focus on gender interactions related to domestic culinary work. Our findings indicate that men and wo...

Amid ongoing social and ecological transformations, vignerons (winegrowers) and the vines in their care are responding to the impacts of climatic and other forms of change. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the eastern French winegrowing region of Alsace, I turn to the sensorium as the site where changing landscapes are forcing people to rethink...

Humanity faces a number of wicked problems, from global climate change and the coronavirus pandemic to systemic racism and widening economic inequality. Since such complex and dynamic problems are plagued by disagreement among stakeholders over their nature and cause, they are notoriously difficult to solve. This commentary argues that if humanity...

This article examines constitutive elements of contemporary domestic cooking practices among women who live in the urban area of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 self-identified women and mothers, who cook at home at least once a day. Here, we offer an in-depth analysis of our qualitative data, having c...

Visual representations of food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) express diverse dietary and sociocultural norms, especially as they relate to healthy eating habits. This article investigates government recommendations for healthy eating habits expressed in the visual representation of Latin American FBDGs. Drawing on 15 images published between 1991...

Researchers have proposed multiple models for understanding the dynamic relationships between humans and non-humans that constitute socioecological systems. However, none of these explicitly account for sensoriality and processes of meaning-making in times of change. Drawing upon 18 months of sensorial ethnographic research in Ohio, USA, and Alsace...

According to climate researchers, place-based goods like wine—as well as the lifestyles and cultures such goods represent (e.g., Adger et al. 2011)—are being threatened by climate change. In Alsace, France, for example, temperature data indicate a 1.8°C increase in the vineyards from 1972-2002, which greatly impacts wine grape ripening, results in...

This Gallery presents preliminary ideas on developing a novel framework to analyze how and why local experiences of a changing landscape can sometimes challenge global climate change and the discourse that surrounds it. According to climate researchers, place-based goods like wine—as well as the lifestyles and cultures such goods represent—are bein...

If the idiom “a picture is worth a thousand words” has any relevance today, one might very well find its truth in analyses of food-based dietary guideline (FBDG) imagery. FBDGs are conceptual frameworks that convey key dietary messages which recommend what kinds and amounts foods individuals should consume or avoid. In addition, FBDGs are typically...

If we are what we eat, what might it mean if what we eat is not necessarily under our control? My research—motivated by the 2015 release of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans—presents a qualitative analysis of 33 pictorial representations of food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) from around the world. FBDGs provide food intake recommendations to...

The Department of Health and Human Services publishes an updated set of dietary guidelines geared toward the American public every five years. Despite written recommendations unique to ³specified populations,´ comparably little seems to account for our nation¶s multicultural composition. Such discrepancies become especially manifested in pictorial...

Dietary requirements and consumption patterns are highly variable and culturally relative. They help indicate adherence to or divergence from group identity, in addition to communicating values and beliefs. This suggests agency on the part of individuals and communities when it comes to making food choices. One such choice is the economically ”heal...

At the start of the 2008 Advent season, English-speaking Catholics in South Africa found themselves using a “new,” or at least unfamiliar, language. The first of three sets of changes to the English translation of the Roman Missal was implemented in South Africa, a nation in which the Catholic Church was one of the most recent churches to be establ...