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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review‘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
Table of ContentsContents: 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
