Amanda Hilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 227313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Hilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilton |
| SIGNATURE | HILTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2098-8437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sicilianità versus Sicilianismo: Thinking from the South with Sicilian Oliviculturalists
Visceral love and more-than-human interembodiment: Olive trees as sentient kin in Sicily
Quality and Genuineness in the World of Sicilian Olive Oil
This article draws on the concept of authenticity as it is often deployed in regards to food, and specifically in regards to foods with Geographical Indication certifications (GIs). Authenticity, as a concept, does boundary work by coding some objects or subjects as authentic, defining them against inauthentic others. Power dynamics inhere in any use of the processes of authentication, which render the authentic as noteworthy (Bendix 1997). Follo…
An Introduction to the Special Issue
An Introduction to the Special Issue Amanda Hilton (bio) and Angela D. Storey (bio) Introduction In July 2020 the authors in this special issue assembled at a digital conference amidst a global pandemic—an experience that seemed in many ways to defy time. Instead of gathering in Lisbon at the European Association of Social Anthropologists meetings, we sat in front of computer screens, in homes and offices spread from Arizona to Germany. For some,…
Amara e bella, bitter and beautiful: A praxis of care in valuing Sicilian olive oil and landscapes
This article discusses how Sicilian oliviculturalists imbue value into their olivicultural landscapes. I combine a political ecology framework, attending to the impact of global political economy on local socioecological systems, with feminist theorizations of care to argue that while participants articulated varied values about place, livelihood, and landscape, participants nonetheless rejected an economistic valuation of their labor, livelihood…
Amara e bella, bitter and beautiful: A praxis of care in valuing Sicilian olive oil and landscapes
This article discusses how Sicilian oliviculturalists imbue value into their olivicultural landscapes. I combine a political ecology framework, attending to the impact of global political economy on local socioecological systems, with feminist theorizations of care to argue that while participants articulated varied values about place, livelihood, and landscape, participants nonetheless rejected an economistic valuation of their labor, livelihood…
Quality and Genuineness in the World of Sicilian Olive Oil
This article draws on the concept of authenticity as it is often deployed in regards to food, and specifically in regards to foods with Geographical Indication certifications (GIs). Authenticity, as a concept, does boundary work by coding some objects or subjects as authentic, defining them against inauthentic others. Power dynamics inhere in any use of the processes of authentication, which render the authentic as noteworthy (Bendix 1997). Follo…
An Introduction to the Special Issue
An Introduction to the Special Issue Amanda Hilton (bio) and Angela D. Storey (bio) Introduction In July 2020 the authors in this special issue assembled at a digital conference amidst a global pandemic—an experience that seemed in many ways to defy time. Instead of gathering in Lisbon at the European Association of Social Anthropologists meetings, we sat in front of computer screens, in homes and offices spread from Arizona to Germany. For some,…
Amara e bella, bitter and beautiful: A praxis of care in valuing Sicilian olive oil and landscapes
This article discusses how Sicilian oliviculturalists imbue value into their olivicultural landscapes. I combine a political ecology framework, attending to the impact of global political economy on local socioecological systems, with feminist theorizations of care to argue that while participants articulated varied values about place, livelihood, and landscape, participants nonetheless rejected an economistic valuation of their labor, livelihood…
Quality and Genuineness in the World of Sicilian Olive Oil
This article draws on the concept of authenticity as it is often deployed in regards to food, and specifically in regards to foods with Geographical Indication certifications (GIs). Authenticity, as a concept, does boundary work by coding some objects or subjects as authentic, defining them against inauthentic others. Power dynamics inhere in any use of the processes of authentication, which render the authentic as noteworthy (Bendix 1997). Follo…
Visceral love and more-than-human interembodiment: Olive trees as sentient kin in Sicily
Sicilianità versus Sicilianismo: Thinking from the South with Sicilian Oliviculturalists
Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Sicilian (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)