Mountainscapes: Pathways and Mobilities in the Alps and Beyond
Andrea Boscoboinik · Viviane Cretton
Sep 2025 · Worlds in Motion Book 16 · Berghahn Books
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Often home to rural, indigenous communities, mountain regions are rapidly becoming preserves for the social elite, and altogether unsustainable within the climate crisis. Bringing together scholars from geography, sociology, anthropology, history, and urban studies, Mountainscapes seeks to re-examine the dynamics of mountain mobilities and better understand how tourism, migration, and pastoralism shape mountain communities. Ranging from the Swiss Alps to the Chilean Andes, this volume illuminates how the processes of place-making and non-belonging specifically manifest and evolve within our ever-changing mountain regions.
About the author
Andrea Boscoboinik is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her latest research project focuses on transformation of the rural space, urbanization, lifestyle mobilities and the imaginaries of new populations in mountain areas. She has published numerous articles, book chapters and edited volumes, including Mobilities in the Swiss Alps: Circulation and Rootedness (Quaderns 2022), Becoming Cities, Losing Paradise? Gentrification in the Swiss Alps (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and a chapter co-authored with Viviane Cretton, titled ‘A “Magic Bubble” and a “Place of Strength”’ in New Horizons for the Alps (Bozen-Bolzano University Press 2024).
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