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Accepted Paper:

has pdf download Political movement in the making of regional space: the Alto Douro of northern Portugal  
Shawn Parkhurst (University of Louisville)

Paper short abstract:

This paper examines how political agents travel and argue in the course of constituting a region for economic regulation. The region of focus is the port wine zone of northern Portugal.

Paper long abstract:

This paper examines how political agents travel and argue in the course of constituting a region for economic regulation. The region of focus is the port wine zone of northern Portugal, known more colloquially as the Alto Douro. The first demarcated wine region in the modern world, the port wine zone has been re-regulated (and re-demarcated) many times. To effect new regulation, political figures of different kinds circulated through the region. In different cities and towns they held meetings, conferences, and rallies to gather support. Circulation seems to have taken the city of Régua as a core and other cities as semi-peripheries. Two variant institutions and two periods are of special interest. Both are in Régua. First is the Casa do Douro (CD), the regulatory body instituted by the Salazar regime in 1932. Because much is known about the regulatory efforts made by wine growers and their representatives in the years around the founding of the CD, I use them as a baseline for comparison with a second moment. This is the period between 1974 and 2000. The Portuguese Revolution of 1974 dissolved many structures for the regulation of wine regions. The CD survived, but lost power over the long run, finally losing much authority to a new institution, the IVDP, in the 1990s. The paper compares the periods, asking if different political agents, circuits traveled, and arguments made issued in different kinds of region.

Panel P216
Technologies of place: time, social identity, memory and agency as architectural elements
  Session 1