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Accepted Paper:
Distress and reinvention: how changes in water access transformed Argentine viticulture
Mark Healey
(University of Connecticut)
This paper examines how ecological crisis – prolonged drought, rapidly expanding groundwater use, followed by salinization and groundwater contamination – led to a broader economic crisis and dramatic refashioning of the Argentine wine industry in the 1970s.
Paper long abstract:
This paper examines the dramatic expansion, development of new techniques, and crisis and retrenchment in the Argentine wine industry between the mid 1960s and the mid 1980s. It traces the attempt at a technical fix for persistent problems in water access, the far graver ecological problems that technical fix created, and the way this ecological crisis helped to drive a dramatic refashioning of the political economy, productive practices, and environmental management of wine in Argentina, the fifth largest industry in the world. A stalwart of the internal market was painfully remade into an export powerhouse.