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Linking mountain identities throughout the world: the experience of Swiss communities
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Abstract This article analyses transnational partnerships set up between Swiss mountain municipalities and other mountain communities throughout the world. It seeks to evaluate the role of this kind of horizontal cooperation in a world which is increasingly domina... mehr
This article analyses transnational partnerships set up between Swiss mountain municipalities and other mountain communities throughout the world. It seeks to evaluate the role of this kind of horizontal cooperation in a world which is increasingly dominated by global flux and complex interactions between multilevel stakeholders. A review of these partnerships shows the quantitative importance of partnerships built upon the celebration of attributes and values associated with mountains. Beyond the very great diversity in the types of partnership and their objectives, the partnerships are surprisingly capable of combining cultural, political and economic objectives, and of bringing together local objectives, national imagination, federal policies and intergovernmental priorities.... weniger
Freie Schlagwörter
identity; mountains; partnerships; Switzerland; transnationalism;
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2008
Seitenangabe
S. 497-517
Zeitschriftentitel
Cultural Geographies, 15 (2008) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474008094619
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)