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Often home to rural, indigenous communities, mountain regions are rapidly becoming preserves for the social elite, and altogether unsustainable within the climate crisis. Bringing together scholars from geography, sociology, anthropology, history, and urban studies, Mountainscapes seeks to re-examine the dynamics of mountain mobilities and better understand how tourism, migration, and pastoralism shape mountain communities. Ranging from the Swiss Alps to the Chilean Andes, this volume illuminates how the processes of place-making and non-belonging specifically manifest and evolve within our ever-changing mountain regions.
“This book offers a contemporary and diverse perspective on mobility issues in mountain areas. By combining different academic disciplines, it allows us to approach the subject from a variety of angles. Some chapters of this book are demanding for the reader, but this reflects their academic quality.” • Yann Decorzant, The Regional Centre for the Study of Alpine Populations (CREPA)
Andrea Boscoboinik is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her latest research project focuses on transformation of the rural space, urbanization, lifestyle mobilities and the imaginaries of new populations in mountain areas. She has published numerous articles, book chapters and edited volumes, including Mobilities in the Swiss Alps: Circulation and Rootedness (Quaderns 2022), Becoming Cities, Losing Paradise? Gentrification in the Swiss Alps (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and a chapter co-authored with Viviane Cretton, titled ‘A “Magic Bubble” and a “Place of Strength”’ in New Horizons for the Alps (Bozen-Bolzano University Press 2024).
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Acknowledgements
Foreword: Moving Mountains
Noel B. Salazar
Introduction: Looking into Mountainscapes
Andrea Boscoboinik and Viviane Cretton
Part I: Shifting Encounters: Mobility and Interactions Across Mountain Landscapes
Chapter 1. Allochthones, Access to Resources and Integration. Long-Term Dynamics of Mobility in the Alps
Luigi Lorenzetti
Chapter 2. The Business of Foreigners: Ordering Mobilities in the Touristic Swiss Alps
Danaé Leitenberg
Chapter 3. Memories of Migrations in the Ubaye (Alpes de Haute-Provence, France): Manufactured Transnationally, Used Locally
Mari Oiry Varacca
Part II: Navigating Change: Facing Neoliberal Mobility in Mountain Regions
Chapter 4. The Pattern of Mountain Amenity Migration: Development to Dissolution?
Laurence A. G. Moss
Chapter 5. Rethinking Neo-Rurality: New Mountain Dwellers in Cerdanya and Val d’Aran Ski Resorts (Spanish Pyrenees)
María Offenhenden and Montserrat Soronellas
Chapter 6. Mountain Areas in the Logic of Capital - and Beyond? Conserving vs. Transformative Development Paths in Times of Multiple Crises
Manfred Perlik
Part III: Entangled Movements: More-Than-Human Mobility Challenged by Climate Change
Chapter 7. Spaces of Mobilities: Pastures, Gender and Governance in the Chilean Central Andes
Juan Carlos Skewes, Jorge Razeto, Debbie Guerra, and Gabriel Espinoza
Chapter 8. Mountains and Snow Sport Mobilities: Past, Present, Future
Holly Thorpe
Afterword: Can Mobilities in Mountain Regions Be Understood Through a Kind of ‘Mountain Factor’?
Bernard Debarbieux