ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

山脉一直是国家想象的激烈阐述的对象。人们普遍认为加利西亚是一个以农业和海滨景观为基础的农村和沿海国家，山区在很大程度上被忽略了。然而，最近发生了围绕特雷文卡地块的当地叙事的制作，这种叙事已经变得相当普遍，围绕加利西亚高地的概念出现了自己想象中的新兴山地景观。本文在西方文化中不断变化的山脉想象和不同的加利西亚景观想象的背景下讨论了这些发展。该研究是通过半结构化访谈的方式进行的，从而获得了从符号聚类中阐述的三个叙述。这些结果使我们能够推断出全球力量，特别是旅游和促销，对于解释加利西亚高地作为社会空间想象的出现和传播至关重要。另一个结论是有争议的“自然边界”概念与案例研究区域中的山脉重合的相关性。