La mutante lectura geográfica de las montañas gallegasde su "dificultad de estudio" a "periferia en muy acusada crisis"

Abstract

This work analyses how the Galician mountains can be seen to be a constructed reality created by the discipline of Geography and through the applied and policy-focused approach of planning. It begins by a theoretical and methodological review of the literature on the academic, social, political or cultural representations of the mountains. The first analytical section focuses on the haphazard representation of mountains in Galicia during the period before the advent of formal geographic and cartographic approaches. The paper then considers the 1970s and 1980s, a key period when institutionalised Geography developed a normative understanding of the Galician mountains, which is still current. The paper concludes by outlining recent research and planning debates around the Galician mountains that conclude that the areas are seen as peripheral and marginal suffering from a lack of specific spatial management, planning and implementation mechanisms.