RT Journal Article
T1 The Emerging Mountain Imaginary of the Galician Highlands: A New National Landscape in an Era of Globalization?
A1 Paül Carril, Valerià
A1 Trillo Santamaría, Juan Manuel
K1 Galician Highlands
K1 globalization
K1 mountain
K1 nationalism
K1 socio-spatial imaginary
AB Mountains have been the object of an intense elaboration of national imaginaries. There is a widespread perception of Galicia as a rural and coastal country based on agricultural and seaside landscapes, with mountains being largely ignored. However, a production of local narratives around the Trevinca Massif has recently taken place, which has become quite widespread, with an emerging mountain landscape imaginary of its own around the notion of the Galician Highlands. This paper discusses these developments in the context of both the changing imaginaries of mountains in Western cultures and the different Galician landscape imaginaries. The research was carried out by means of semistructured interviewing, leading toward obtaining three narratives elaborated from semiotic clustering. These results allow us to infer that global forces, in particular tourism and promotion, have been essential for explaining the emergence and spread of the Galician Highlands as a socio-spatial imaginary. Another conclusion is the relevance of the disputed conception of “natural borders” coinciding with mountains in the case-study area.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 0016-7428
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32562
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32562
LA eng
NO PAÜL, V. & TRILLO, J.M. (2022): “The Emerging Mountain Imaginary of the Galician Highlands: A New National Landscape in an Era of Globalization?”, Geographical Review, 112(3): 466-492. ISSN: 0016-7428. doi: 10.1080/00167428.2021.1897812
NO This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Geographical Review on 2021-04-15, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00167428.2021.1897812
NO Galician Government project n. 2016-PG009 “Territorial Cooperation in the Galician Borderlands: Analyzing External and Internal Cross-border Governance”
DS Minerva
RD 29 abr 2026