The pineapple's 'discovery' by European colonisers in the late fifteenth century and its remarkable global trajectory - from an early modern object of rarity, desire, and horticultural innovation to a cheap, canned consumable and fair-trade logo today - is a story of modern globalisation. The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary volume intended to provoke timely debate and generate radical rethinking of an overly familiar fruit with associations from luxury to kitsch. It deliberately problematizes the pineapple by investigating understudied tensions between its representational power and the historical and political contexts of its worldwide production and consumption. This connects the global and local at the heart of contemporary debates about the nature and origins of our food. It will have cross-disciplinary appeal for scholars of politics, economics, history, plant sciences, food, and material culture as well as for broader audiences interested in food, gardening, the environment, and visual arts.
| ISBN: | 9780197267929 |
| Publication date: | 28th October 2025 |
| Author: | Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu |
| Publisher: | The British Academy an imprint of Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy: Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Genres: |
Society and culture: general Nature in art Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers The arts: general topics |
The pineapple's 'discovery' by European colonisers in the late fifteenth century and its remarkable global trajectory - from an early modern object of rarity, desire, and horticultural innovation to a cheap, canned consumable and fair-trade logo today - is a story of modern globalisation. The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary volume intended to provoke timely debate and generate radical rethinking of an overly familiar fruit with associations from luxury to kitsch. It deliberately problematizes the pineapple by investigating understudied tensions between its representational power and the historical and political contexts of its worldwide production and consumption. This connects the global and local at the heart of contemporary debates about the nature and origins of our food. It will have cross-disciplinary appeal for scholars of politics, economics, history, plant sciences, food, and material culture as well as for broader audiences interested in food, gardening, the environment, and visual arts.
The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification features in the following genres: Society and culture: general, Nature in art, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, The arts: general topics
The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification is available in Hardback
The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification was written by Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu and published by The British Academy an imprint of Liverpool University Press
The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification has 272 pages
Yes it is part of Proceedings of the British Academy: Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences series