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Linking mountain identities throughout the world: the experience of Swiss communities
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Debarbieux, Bernard
Rudaz, Gilles
Published in Cultural Geographies. 2008, vol. 15, no. 4, p. 497-517
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 dominated by global flux and complex interactions between multi- level 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.
Keywords Collective identities — Mountain regions — Switzerland — Transnationalism
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Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de géographie et environnement
Research group Pôle/Institut Gouvernance de l'environnement et développement territorial (PI-GEDT)
Project FNS: Populations de montagne en réseaux
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(ISO format) 		DEBARBIEUX, Bernard, RUDAZ, Gilles. Linking mountain identities throughout the world: the experience of Swiss communities. In: Cultural Geographies, 2008, vol. 15, n° 4, p. 497-517. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:23460

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