Elgar Companion to Valleys

Edited by Luis LM Aguiar, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of History and Sociology, Donna Senese, Associate Professor Geography, Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies, Associate Dean Undergraduate Students I.K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Diana E. French, Associate Professor Emerita, Anthropology, Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada

‘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.’

• Contents:1 Introduction: fronting valleys in social science research 1Luís LM Aguiar, Donna Senese and Diana E. FrenchPART I SEEING THE VALLEY: NARRATIVES OF POWERAND DISRUPTIONLuís LM Aguiar, Donna Senese and Diana E. French2 The Yakima Valley: a personal history of the Valley 9Benjamin L. Peterson3 Changing places in Silicon Valley 21Charles N. Darrah4 To dis-remember the valley in the Okanagan 35Luís LM Aguiar5 Valley conservatisms: racial landscapes of religion andmigration in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley 51Bonar BuffamPART II IN, AROUND, AND BEYOND THE VALLEYDiana E. French, Luís LM Aguiar and Donna Senese6 Hybrid interstices: conceptualising suburbanism in Alpine valleys 66Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Cristina Mattiucci7 Vertical (sub)urbanization in Zurich’s northeast: the valleyalong the Glatt as both a metaphor and mediating structural element 79Constance Carr and Evan McDonough8 The magical Elqui Valley: from ruralism and solidarity toneoliberalism 92Ricardo Trumper and Patricia Tomic9 The emergence of contemporary valley images: a comparisonof landscape perceptions of three valleys in north-westernBritish Columbia, Canada 111Diana E. French10 Commanding the heights: governing valley terrain 125Mike ZajkoPART III PLACES OF PLENTY: VALLEY PRODUCTION,REFLECTION AND TRANSFORMATIONDonna Senese, Luís LM Aguiar and Diana E. French11 Wine from Waipara Valley: expressing sense of place in anemerging New Zealand wine region 143Rory Hill and Joanna Fountain12 Reconstructing valley: the transformative power of wine in thelower Pisuerga River Valley (Spain) 160Julio Fernández Portela and Donna Senese13 Agricultural place-making in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley:new wine in old skins? 173Danielle Robinson14 The community resilience of mountain valleys in the European Alps 188Rike Stotten and Markus Schermer15 The Creston Valley: a socio-environmental history of foodprocurement and change 203Joanne Taylor16 Migrant farmworkers in the Okanagan Valley, BritishColumbia: margins and mechanisms of struggle in the makingof the valley 217Amy Cohen and C. Susana Caxaj17 Conclusion: backing the valley: origin stories, conclusions andpaths forward 233Donna Senese, Luís LM Aguiar and Diana E. FrenchIndex 238