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The Elgar Companion to Valleys
Social Science Perspectives
9781789906950 Edward Elgar Publishing
This unique Companion showcases the importance of valleys and their socio-economic, physical and cultural landscapes across three continents. Expert scholars in the field offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on the topic, discussing key historical and contemporary issues governing and transforming valleys.
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This unique Companion showcases the importance of valleys and their socio-economic, physical and cultural landscapes across three continents. Expert scholars in the field offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on the topic, discussing key historical and contemporary issues governing and transforming valleys.
Exploring the impact of economic and spatial justice, and environmental and climate change issues on valleys, the Companion also studies key topics including lifestyle placemaking, the rise of inequalities within and across valleys, and alternate representations of this under-studied geographical feature. Highlighting some lesser-known valleys across Europe and North and South America, chapters provide in-depth reviews of experiencing, living in and growing up in valleys, and how internal and external factors shape each valley’s characteristics.
The Elgar Companion to Valleys is an excellent resource for academics and scholars in the fields of geography and environmental studies, as well as anthropology and sociology. Using original empirical data to tackle emerging theoretical issues, researchers interested in the changing internal configurations of valleys and under what conditions those changes take place will find this Companion illuminating and insightful.
Exploring the impact of economic and spatial justice, and environmental and climate change issues on valleys, the Companion also studies key topics including lifestyle placemaking, the rise of inequalities within and across valleys, and alternate representations of this under-studied geographical feature. Highlighting some lesser-known valleys across Europe and North and South America, chapters provide in-depth reviews of experiencing, living in and growing up in valleys, and how internal and external factors shape each valley’s characteristics.
The Elgar Companion to Valleys is an excellent resource for academics and scholars in the fields of geography and environmental studies, as well as anthropology and sociology. Using original empirical data to tackle emerging theoretical issues, researchers interested in the changing internal configurations of valleys and under what conditions those changes take place will find this Companion illuminating and insightful.
Critical Acclaim
‘Steeped in the disciplines of Anthropology, Sociology, and Geography, this theoretically engrossing volume of sixteen case studies explores the geographic, ecological, economic, and culturally contingent aspects of “Valleys” on different continents.’
– Benny Andrés, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US
– Benny Andrés, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US
Contributors
Contributors: Luís LM Aguiar, Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Bonar Buffam, Constance Carr, C. Susana Caxaj, Amy Cohen, Charles N. Darrah, Joanna Fountain, Diana E. French, Rory Hill, Cristina Mattiucci, Evan McDonough, Benjamin L. Peterson, Julio Fernandez Portela, Danielle Robinson, Markus Schermer, Donna Senese, Rike Stotten, Joanne Taylor, Patricia Tomic, Ricardo Trumper, Mike Zajko
Contents
Contents:
1 Introduction: fronting valleys in social science research 1
Luís LM Aguiar, Donna Senese and Diana E. French
PART I SEEING THE VALLEY: NARRATIVES OF POWER
AND DISRUPTION
Luís LM Aguiar, Donna Senese and Diana E. French
2 The Yakima Valley: a personal history of the Valley 9
Benjamin L. Peterson
3 Changing places in Silicon Valley 21
Charles N. Darrah
4 To dis-remember the valley in the Okanagan 35
Luís LM Aguiar
5 Valley conservatisms: racial landscapes of religion and
migration in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley 51
Bonar Buffam
PART II IN, AROUND, AND BEYOND THE VALLEY
Diana E. French, Luís LM Aguiar and Donna Senese
6 Hybrid interstices: conceptualising suburbanism in Alpine valleys 66
Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Cristina Mattiucci
7 Vertical (sub)urbanization in Zurich’s northeast: the valley
along the Glatt as both a metaphor and mediating structural element 79
Constance Carr and Evan McDonough
8 The magical Elqui Valley: from ruralism and solidarity to
neoliberalism 92
Ricardo Trumper and Patricia Tomic
9 The emergence of contemporary valley images: a comparison
of landscape perceptions of three valleys in north-western
British Columbia, Canada 111
Diana E. French
10 Commanding the heights: governing valley terrain 125
Mike Zajko
PART III PLACES OF PLENTY: VALLEY PRODUCTION,
REFLECTION AND TRANSFORMATION
Donna Senese, Luís LM Aguiar and Diana E. French
11 Wine from Waipara Valley: expressing sense of place in an
emerging New Zealand wine region 143
Rory Hill and Joanna Fountain
12 Reconstructing valley: the transformative power of wine in the
lower Pisuerga River Valley (Spain) 160
Julio Fernández Portela and Donna Senese
13 Agricultural place-making in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley:
new wine in old skins? 173
Danielle Robinson
14 The community resilience of mountain valleys in the European Alps 188
Rike Stotten and Markus Schermer
15 The Creston Valley: a socio-environmental history of food
procurement and change 203
Joanne Taylor
16 Migrant farmworkers in the Okanagan Valley, British
Columbia: margins and mechanisms of struggle in the making
of the valley 217
Amy Cohen and C. Susana Caxaj
17 Conclusion: backing the valley: origin stories, conclusions and
paths forward 233
Donna Senese, Luís LM Aguiar and Diana E. French
Index 238
1 Introduction: fronting valleys in social science research 1
Luís LM Aguiar, Donna Senese and Diana E. French
PART I SEEING THE VALLEY: NARRATIVES OF POWER
AND DISRUPTION
Luís LM Aguiar, Donna Senese and Diana E. French
2 The Yakima Valley: a personal history of the Valley 9
Benjamin L. Peterson
3 Changing places in Silicon Valley 21
Charles N. Darrah
4 To dis-remember the valley in the Okanagan 35
Luís LM Aguiar
5 Valley conservatisms: racial landscapes of religion and
migration in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley 51
Bonar Buffam
PART II IN, AROUND, AND BEYOND THE VALLEY
Diana E. French, Luís LM Aguiar and Donna Senese
6 Hybrid interstices: conceptualising suburbanism in Alpine valleys 66
Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Cristina Mattiucci
7 Vertical (sub)urbanization in Zurich’s northeast: the valley
along the Glatt as both a metaphor and mediating structural element 79
Constance Carr and Evan McDonough
8 The magical Elqui Valley: from ruralism and solidarity to
neoliberalism 92
Ricardo Trumper and Patricia Tomic
9 The emergence of contemporary valley images: a comparison
of landscape perceptions of three valleys in north-western
British Columbia, Canada 111
Diana E. French
10 Commanding the heights: governing valley terrain 125
Mike Zajko
PART III PLACES OF PLENTY: VALLEY PRODUCTION,
REFLECTION AND TRANSFORMATION
Donna Senese, Luís LM Aguiar and Diana E. French
11 Wine from Waipara Valley: expressing sense of place in an
emerging New Zealand wine region 143
Rory Hill and Joanna Fountain
12 Reconstructing valley: the transformative power of wine in the
lower Pisuerga River Valley (Spain) 160
Julio Fernández Portela and Donna Senese
13 Agricultural place-making in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley:
new wine in old skins? 173
Danielle Robinson
14 The community resilience of mountain valleys in the European Alps 188
Rike Stotten and Markus Schermer
15 The Creston Valley: a socio-environmental history of food
procurement and change 203
Joanne Taylor
16 Migrant farmworkers in the Okanagan Valley, British
Columbia: margins and mechanisms of struggle in the making
of the valley 217
Amy Cohen and C. Susana Caxaj
17 Conclusion: backing the valley: origin stories, conclusions and
paths forward 233
Donna Senese, Luís LM Aguiar and Diana E. French
Index 238
