Routledge Critical Beverage Studies
About the Book Series
To submit a book proposal or to discuss an idea, please contact Faye Leerink, Commissioning Editor: [email protected]
Routledge Critical Beverage Studies offers cutting edge and ground-breaking insights on beverages as vehicles for a wide array of social, cultural, economic, environment and political phenomenon. Books in the series are interdisciplinary and multi-methodological, exploring a variety of perspectives from the social sciences and humanities. The series reflects the notable increase of academic interest on the histories, production, promotion, regulation, sustainability and consumption of various beverages, which are expansively defined as anything produced and consumed in liquid form and typically for the purposes of thirst quenching, nutrition, sociality and/or the aesthetics of taste. This includes water, milk, tea, coffee, coco, juice, wine, pisco, cider, beer, whiskey, vodka, gin, sake, kombucha, cassava, kava, sima, boza, kefir and so on. The series offers historical and contemporary critical explorations of beverages that will shape the future field of critical beverage studies. Books in the series will be of interest to students, researchers, academics and practitioners in food, hospitality and consumption studies; tourism and hospitality; anthropology; sociology; leisure studies; cultural studies; history, geography; business management; and economics.
This series welcomes contributions from a wide range of disciplines, from monographs and edited collections to student textbooks.
Wine and Gender: Tracing Interconnections
1st Edition
By Anna-Mari Almila
November 14, 2025
This book seeks to understand and display the complex relationships between wines and genders in a comprehensive manner. It explores the structural and systemic socio-cultural factors as well as lived experiences and activities of people involved with wine, be that professionally, enthusiastically,...
Time and Alcohol: It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere!
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter J. Howland
March 28, 2025
The purposeful production, exchange, and consumption of alcohol, like all human endeavour, is always a matter of time and temporality – and ranges from the universality of Einsteinian space-time relativity through to species-specific nature times and the myriad of anthropocentric constructs of ...
Barista in the City: Subcultural Lives, Paid Employment, and the Urban Context
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Moss, Keith McIntosh, Ewa Protasiuk
January 30, 2025
Barista in the City examines the impact of paid employment and the contemporary neoliberal context on the subcultural lives of hipsters who are employed as baristas. This book’s analysis of Philadelphia baristas employed within specialty coffee shops suggests that the existing literature on the ...
Producing and Consuming the Craft Beer Movement
1st Edition
By Wesley Shumar, Tyson Mitman
October 09, 2024
Producing and Consuming the Craft Beer Movement is an ethnographic analysis of the craft beer movement and its rapid development as an industry that articulated a different set of values: celebrating, quality, community, and good taste. This book will provide an excellent foundation for ...
Craft Breweries and Cities: Perspectives from the Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie Wartell, Vince Vasquez
October 08, 2024
This book brings together a diverse collection of case studies, perspectives, and research to explore how craft breweries have interacted with cities and neighborhoods in meaningful ways. It provides a deeper understanding of the important issues facing neighborhoods, city government, and ...
Wine and The Gift: From Production to Consumption
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Howland
August 26, 2024
Wine as commodity has received enormous academic attention, while wine as gift has largely eluded significant dedicated research and analysis. This book addresses this lacuna with insights from leading scholars from a range of disciplines exploring wine as gift in different moments of history, ...