The 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

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