Taste as labour: Local sensory practices and the recalibration of global taste regimes across Taiwan’s specialty-coffee value chain
Published online on April 29, 2026
Abstract
Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This study theorises taste labour to examine how sensory practice becomes a form of labour in the specialty coffee industry. Drawing on 14 months of multi-site ethnography with baristas and farmers in the Alishan region of Taiwan, it analyses how bodies ...
This study theorises taste labour to examine how sensory practice becomes a form of labour in the specialty coffee industry. Drawing on 14 months of multi-site ethnography with baristas and farmers in the Alishan region of Taiwan, it analyses how bodies ...