Waterways and the Cultural Landscape
Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of canals and the wetland reclamation schemes from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, generated new typologies of waterscapes with significant implications for the people who resided within them. This book explores the role of waterways as a form of heritage, culture and sense of place and the potential of this to underpin the development of cultural tourism. With a multidisciplinary approach across the social sciences and humanities, chapters explore how the control and management of water flows are among some of the most significant human activities to transform the natural environment. Based upon a wealth and breadth of European case studies, the book uncovers the complex relationships we have with waterways, the ways that they have been represented over recent centuries and the ways in which they continue to be redefined in different cultural contexts. Contributions recognise not only valuable assets of hydrology that are at the core of landscape management, but also more intangible aspects that matter to people, such as their familiarity, affecting what is understood as the fluvial sense of place. This highly original collection will be of interest to those working in cultural tourism, cultural geography, heritage studies, cultural history, landscape studies and leisure studies. Francesco Vallerani is professor of geography at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy. His main fields of expertise are human and cultural geography, landscape evolution and heritage, with special focuses on waterscapes and waterbased sustainable tourism in both European and South American countries. Francesco Visentin is a human geographer with research interests in sustainable tourism and cultural history. His research focuses on water and rural landscapes changes especially in Italy, Spain and England. He is currently a fellow research at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, involved in some projects concerning cultural heritage tourism.
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Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series Series editor: Dallen J. Timothy, Arizona State University, USA www.routledge.com/Routledge-Cultural-Heritage-and-Tourism-Series/bookseries/RCHT
The Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series offers an interdisciplinary social science forum for original, innovative and cutting-edge research about all aspects of cultural heritage-based tourism. This series encourages new and theoretical perspectives and showcases ground-breaking work that reflects the dynamism and vibrancy of heritage, tourism and cultural studies. It aims to foster discussions about both tangible and intangible heritages, and all of their management, conservation, interpretation, political, conflict, consumption and identity challenges, opportunities and implications. This series interprets heritage broadly and caters to the needs of upper-level students, academic researchers and policy makers. Valuing World Heritage Cities Tanja Vahtikari Waterways and the Cultural Landscape Edited by Francesco Vallerani and Francesco Visentin Heritage of Death Landscapes, Sentiment and Practice Edited by Mattias Frihammar and Helaine Silverman Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities Edited by Christian Wicke, Stefan Berger and Jana Golombek
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Waterways and the Cultural Landscape Edited by Francesco Vallerani and Francesco Visentin
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First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Francesco Vallerani and Francesco Visentin; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Francesco Vallerani and Francesco Visentin to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data [CIP data] ISBN: 978-1-138-22604-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-39846-4 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC
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To Riccardo Cappellozza, the last lighterman of the Veneto’s inland waterways.
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Contents
List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: flowing consciousness and the becoming of waterscapes
x xii xiii xvi xviii
1
FRANCESCO VALLERANI
PART I
Cultural visions 1 On the waterfront
17 19
STEPHEN DANIELS
2 Towards homogeneous waterfronts? Historical woodworking waterfronts in transition
29
ANNIKA AIRAS
3 Salmonscapes and shipyards: versions of heritage on the River Tyne
45
PETER COATES
4 “A sign of good neighborliness”: images of the Saimaa Canal in the Soviet Union
61
ELENA KOCHETKOVA
5 Women’s labour and cultural heritage: laundries, collective memory and the Canal du Midi
76
CHANDRA MUKERJI
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Contents
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6 Contested subterranean waterscapes: lead mining sough disputes in Derbyshire’s Derwent Valley
88
GEORGINA ENDFIELD AND CARRY VAN LIESHOUT
7 The rock behind the lagoon: the dolomites in the iconography of Venice
106
WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE
8 Going along the liquid chronotope: the Po Delta waterscape through Gianni Celati’s narration
124
GIADA PETERLE AND FRANCESCO VISENTIN
PART II
Touristic perspectives 9 Canals: an old form of transport transformed into a new form of heritage tourism experience
143 145
BRUCE PRIDEAUX
10 Recreational countryside and the riverscape aesthetic: northwest Croatia hydrography as a sustainable tourism destination
160
FRANCESCO VALLERANI
11 Experiencing historic waterways and water landscapes of the Vistula River Delta
175
LUCYNA NYKA
12 Tourism and Scotland’s canals: a twenty-first-century transformation
194
ANDREW MCKEAN AND JOHN LENNON
13 New possibilities for tourism on the banks of the Manzanares River in Madrid
205
AURELIO NIETO CODINA
14 The Fonséranes lock on the Canal du Midi: representation, reality and renovation of a heritage site
217
FEDERICA CAVALLO AND DOMINIQUE CROZAT
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Contents 15 Digital applications and river heritage: the inherited landscape of Venice’s historic waterways
ix 231
ERIBERTO EULISSE AND FRANCESCO VISENTIN
16 Conclusion: towards a humanistic hydrology
246
FRANCESCO VISENTIN
Index
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