Agatha Herman is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University, UK and holds a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2014-17). Her research interests focus on questions of ethics, justice and resilience within food production systems, particularly analysing their impact on the everyday spaces, practices and livelihoods of producers.

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• 1. Introduction: conceptualising power, practice and empowerment through South Africa 2. The South African Wine Industry: conflict and continuity 3. Local Practices of Empowerment in South Africa’s Wine Industry: difference and dilemmas 4. Practicing Empowerment as Development in South African Fairtrade 5. Strategic Practices: interactive relations and the role of the market in ethical trade 6. Whose Empowerment? Materiality and the Marginalised in the South African Wine Industry 7. Conclusions: practising empowerment and empowering practices in South Africa 8. References

Agatha Herman is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University, UK and holds a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2014-17). Her research interests focus on questions of ethics, justice and resilience within food production systems, particularly analysing their impact on the everyday spaces, practices and livelihoods of producers.

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• 1. Introduction: conceptualising power, practice and empowerment through South Africa 2. The South African Wine Industry: conflict and continuity 3. Local Practices of Empowerment in South Africa’s Wine Industry: difference and dilemmas 4. Practicing Empowerment as Development in South African Fairtrade 5. Strategic Practices: interactive relations and the role of the market in ethical trade 6. Whose Empowerment? Materiality and the Marginalised in the South African Wine Industry 7. Conclusions: practising empowerment and empowering practices in South Africa 8. References