Juan-Manuel Trillo-Santamaría

• PhD
• Associate Professor at University of Santiago de Compostela

Transboundary protected areas (TBPAs) have expanded across the world. Academic research, handbooks and guidelines for developing TBPAs have multiplied during the last few years, although a lack of critical analysis as regards to their development is detected. The aim of this paper is to test the suitability of the TBPA framework, as defined by lead...

The boundary between Spain and Portugal is supposed to be one of the most – if not the most – fixed and stable borders in the world, with some authors stating that it has a history of almost a thousand years. However, this paper demonstrates that this is not the case by arguing that it has a mobile nature. After formulating a theoretical framework...

The assumption that the border between Spain and Portugal is a stable one since medieval times is commonplace. Thus, the territorial trap conception, as defined by John Agnew, dominates understanding of this border. This paper will focus on a specific border area, the Couto Mixto, in an effort to contest this territorial trap. Furthermore, using so...

García-Álvarez J. and Trillo-Santamaría J.-M. Between regional spaces and spaces of regionalism: cross-border region building in the Spanish ‘State of the Autonomies’, Regional Studies. The intense development of cross-border cooperation in the European Union in the last two decades offers a privileged laboratory to reflect upon the changing nature...

European Union (EU) policies embrace a wide range of mechanisms to promote the territorial harmonisation and integration of the EU regions. This paper seeks to connect two of these policies that have not previously been subject to joint examination: on the one hand, EU agricultural and rural development policies promoting geographical indications f...

In 2015, the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) País d’Art i d’Història Transfronterer Les Valls Catalanes del Tec i del Ter was set up. This EGTC is unique as it was created to allow the extension to south of the border of a French-exclusive label granted by the French Ministry of Culture: Pays d’art et d’histoire. The aim of this...

La cooperación transfronteriza se ha erigido como uno de los elementos clave de la llamada “desfronterización”. La función tradicional de las fronteras en tanto que límites infranqueables del territorio estatal se ha ido diluyendo, entre otros motivos, por las políticas de cooperación territorial impulsadas por la Unión Europea desde la década de 1...

Mutual trust is an important element in starting cross-border processes, and institutional trust is vital to forging sound and effective cross-border cooperation. It is widely debated that the recent covidfencing process in Europe chipped away existing long and medium-term cross-border institutional ties, in most European borders, at least for some...

SPATIAL PLANNING OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY AND THE BORDER PHENOMENON: ENCOURAGEMENT FOR COOPERATION OR PERSISTENCE OF THE BARRIER EFFECT? Cross-border cooperation has emerged as one of the key elements of so-called “debordering”. The traditional role of borders as hard limits of the state territory has been diluted by the territorial cooperation polici...

Academic studies of border issues have undergone considerable growth at the international scale in recent years with the emergence of so-called border studies. In this line of research dedicated to borders and their socio-spatial repercussions, geography clearly has a key role to play. Here, I report a state of the art of Spanish geographical produ...

Esta obra tiene como origen un encuentro internacional sobre Geografía social celebrado en la Facultade de Xeografía e Historia de la USC del 4 al 6 de noviembre de 2021, organizado por el Grupo de Análise Territorial de la USC (G-ANTE) y por el Grupo de Pensamiento Geográfico de la Asociación Española de Geografía (AGE). Se trataba del primer cong...

Los trabajos académicos de temática fronteriza están viviendo una expansión en los últimos años a escala internacional, de la mano de los denominados Border Studies. Sin duda, la Geografía tiene un rol fundamental en la investigación sobre fronteras y sus repercusiones socio-espaciales. En este texto nos planteamos realizar un estado de la cuestión...

Spain is the country with the most biosphere reserves (BRs) in the world. The aim of this paper is to investigate why BRs have come to proliferate to such a degree in Spain and why there is a gap between UNESCO’s framework and the practicalities observed in Spain. After outlining how a BR is conceived according to UNESCO and reviewing the large vol...

El presente artículo, elaborado por dos miembros del equipo de la Asociación de Regiones Fronterizas Europeas (ARFE), con el apoyo de dos investigadores de las universidades Complutense de Madrid y Santiago de Compostela, expone y analiza los desafíos a los que se enfrenta la cooperación transfronteriza para el desarrollo en América Latina. Lo hace...

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The COVID-19 crisis experienced since early 2020 has been the first time in decades that all the boundaries between European Union member-states have been systematically re-set. This paper examines the economic impact derived from re-establishing the boundary on a particular cross-border region located between Galicia (Spain) and Portugal. The pape...

La presente investigación ofrece un análisis de la prensa española con respecto a la imagen del/de la migrante en dos contextos fronterizos: Estados Unidos-México y Es-paña-Marruecos, en concreto, Ceuta y Melilla. A través del estudio del contenido emple-ado por los medios de comunicación observados, se abordan dos grandes cuestiones: la identifica...

Territorial and, particularly, cross-border cooperation policies have gained momentum as a European governance instrument for the 21st century. In this context, the Spanish-Portuguese border has become a true laboratory for integration, with many important experiences developed since the 1980s. Among them, the establishment of four eurocities on th...

A Leonese Autonomous Community on a Mutating Political Map of Spain? An Urgent Interpretation of the Early 2020 Lexit Under the New Regional Geography At the end of 2019, the development of a process called Lexit was launched, through which, based on motions presented to local councils, it is hoped to achieve a Leonese autonomous community detached...

Critical geopolitics conceives of the internal organization of the state as a relevant geopolitical subfield. In this context, this paper aims to develop a geopolitical interpretation of the covid-19 crisis management in Catalonia and Spain from March 2020 to mid-April 2020. The paper begins by providing an overview of internal geopolitics literatu...

La cooperación transfronteriza ha alcanzado un alto grado de madurez, tanto política, como social, cultural e incluso económicamente, en el contexto europeo. En otros contextos, como en el de América Latina, las políticas de cooperación territorial y, en particular, transfronteriza, no cuentan con un engranaje tan consolidado. Sin embargo, se han b...

Resumo: A conformación da idea de nación a partir dos séculos XVIII-XIX require unha serie de elementos que a lexitimen. Sen dúbida, o territorio é un factor elemental, en tanto que a nación como conxunto de persoas que comparten unha lingua, unha historia, unha cultura, arela asentarse sobre un territorio propio. Este deberá ser cartografiado, de...

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 beco...

TREVINCA MOUNTAINS: UNDERTOURISM IN GALICIA AND OVERTOURISM IN SANABRIA?. The hegemonic paradigm of unlimited growth has encouraged the proliferation of various destinations with overtourism. Alternatively, places with low visitor rates vindicate themselves as undertourism, as an opportunity to offer a more relaxed and respectful tourism. This cont...

Entre finales de 2019 y principios de 2020 varios municipios de las provincias de León, Salamanca y Zamora aprobaron una iniciativa instando a obtener una autonomía propia respecto de Castilla y León (Lexit). La moción al efecto fue en la mayoría de los casos presentada por la Unión del Pueblo Leonés; el hecho de que el Ayuntamiento de León fuese e...

An increasing number of Transboundary Protected Areas (TBPAs) have been designated in the last decades. Transboundary Biosphere Reserves represent one of the most valued instruments. TBPAs are usually conceived around international borders; however, these devices can be applied to internal boundaries — i.e., for this study, the administrative limit...

Across the world, national and subnational governments are implementing an array of policies and measures to contain the spread and mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on public health. These actions include border closures and restrictions to cross-border mobility in tandem with stay-at-home orders, curfews, business and school closures, among other...

The alleged North-Western Iberian urban corridor, mainly covering Northern Portugal and Galicia, is examined. The international boundary between Portugal and Spain is assumed to have a role in the analysis of such a corridor. The theoretical section reviews the literature on urban systems and corridors and shows how they are commonly conceived unde...

Presentació del volum 66/2: Rural Landscapes Beyond the Idyll.

A integração europeia criou um contexto de comunicação entre territórios de diferentes Estados, que permitiu o fortalecimento de relações transfronteiriças e, consequentemente, uma redefinição do significado das fronteiras. As várias formas de cooperação que se têm vindo a desenvolver durante as últimas décadas entre a Galiza, Comunidade Autónoma d...

A fronteira luso-espanhola separa dois modelos de organização territorial: do lado português, um Estado fortemente centralizado e, do lado Espanhol, um Estado semi-federal com entidades sub-estatais dotadas de forte autonomia. Apesar das barreiras que esta diferença gera, o enquadramento de ambos Estados na União Europeia (UE) tem permitido o desen...

Un conjunto de ambigüedades, carencias y lecturas simplificadoras han convertido la compleja realidad territorial española en especialmente conflictiva. La Geografía, como ciencia del territorio, está obligada a posicionarse ante ello. Para ello la presente aportación, en primer lugar, hace un repaso del patrimonio que en materia de conocimiento d...

Resumen: En el espacio central de la raya entre Galicia y el Norte de Portugal se extiende el Gerês/Xurés. Este ámbito territorial está conformado por dos Parques, uno Nacional en Portugal y otro Natural en Galicia. El presente artículo aporta los mimbres para una geografía histórica de este ámbito, en clave de región transfronteriza. La metodologí...

As nacións e as paisaxes están intimamente relacionadas, pois a construción territorial vinculada a unha nación precisa dunha paisaxe específica, ou dun conxunto de paisaxes diferenciadas, que sexan representadas e interiorizadas como paisaxes nacionais. Na época global, as nacións sen Estado deberán loitar non só por encontrar un espazo político,...

The literature on the development of tourism destinations neglects to question their precise origins. Thus, it makes sense to research the when, how and why a particular place attracts tourists to the point of being considered an up-and-coming destination. The case of Trevinca-A Veiga (Galicia, Spain), a mountain area which is emerging as a tourism...

Trevinca Mountains: Galicia’s Heritage Landscape?

O Teixadal de Casaio: the Myth and the Forest

The Meseta Ibérica Transboundary Biosphere Reserve as a transboundary protected natural area: a conservation tool or a promotional brand? Transboundary protected areas (TBPAs) have multiplied in recent years, especially in Europe and Southern Africa. A vast body of research has been carried out on TBPAs by international organisations as well as sch...

This volume assembles some contributions related to the fieldwork developed in the frame of the 26th Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems of the International Geographical Union Colloquium, held in Santiago de Compostela and other rural Galician places in July 2018. As is tradition in the IGU CSRS colloquia, fieldwork is a central part...

This volume assembles a collection of 61 short papers dealing with the challenging transitions experienced by rural systems in their quest for sustainability across the world. The articles are grouped into six broad themes with an overall aim to bridge some of the existing gaps identified in previous academic discussions. The research documented in...

Question of Borders? A Territorial Analysis of the Ribeira Sacra — Candidate to World Heritage — as a Cultural Landscape In 1996 the Ribeira Sacra Candidacy was submitted to the UNESCO tentative list of World Heritage Cultural Landscapes. At least 26 different delimitations of Ribeira Sacra have been proposed. This fluid and changing practice for c...

Gerês-Xurés: Tourism planning in a transboundary protected natural area: In the border area between Southern Galicia (Spain) and Northern Portugal, several agreements have been signed in order to attempt to set a common framework for the whole protected area Gerês-Xurés, namely with the Biosphere Reserve designation by the UNESCO in 2009. Our stud...

Galicia played a secondary role in Spanish tourism policy throughout the 20th century. Located in the northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula, it barely participated in the early 20th century trend that transformed and popularized the Cantabrian beaches. It also did not take part in the significant tourism boom of the 1960s and beyond. However...

En las últimas cuatro décadas se ha desarrollado a nivel internacional un amplio campo de estudio en torno a las fronteras, con múltiples centros de investigación, programas de grado y postgrado, así como numerosos congresos y publicaciones. Habiendo nacido en el contexto de la geografía, actualmente muchas otras disciplinas, desde la historia a la...

This paper reviews a tourist planning experience developed for the Couto Mixto in 2007–2008. The Couto Mixto is a small territory of three hamlets situated in Galicia (Spain) and bordering Portugal that, until the end of the 19th century, used to be a virtually independent state of 25 km2. This tourism planning process is compared and contrasted wi...

The economic crisis has had harmful effects on urban spaces, mainly in those neighbourhoods that have historically been characterised by their vulnerability. In the case of Spain, the crisis is making its mark in certain neighbourhoods which are experiencing a regression in their socio-economic situation to past times through the reappearance of so...

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Desde la segunda mitad del siglo XIX los geógrafos españoles, portugueses y foráneos describen y discuten las características semejantes o distintas entre Galicia y el Norte de Portugal (relieve, clima, vegetación, población, etc.). En este artículo nos proponemos reflexionar acerca del carácter artificial de la frontera política que los separa, un...

La Unión Europea cuenta con instrumentos específicos para financiar proyectos de cooperación transfronteriza. Los fondos comunitarios se reparten en distintos programas operativos a lo largo de las fronteras europeas. En el caso de las peninsulares, existen dos, el POCTEP y el POCTEFA. De la diversidad de temáticas que pueden abarcarse en los proye...

The New Territorial Scale Configuration in Galicia (Spain): Economic Stake or Ideological Alibi? In the current economic crisis, deep changes in the local and regional modes of government are under scrutiny in several countries. Most of them, like Spain, are grounded on an efficiency rationale. Our case study deals with Galicia, a historical “natio...

Border-crossing cities: a critical analysis on the Eurocidade Chaves-Verín project The different political, social, institutional and economic relations that may be established between two border cities have raised an interesting theoretical debate on how to name this particular cooperation. In this contribution we will elaborate a literature revie...

The different political, social, institutional and economic relations that may be established between two border cities have raised an interesting theoretical debate on how to name this particular cooperation. In this contribution we will elaborate a literature review on the subject, and choose one specific concept we believe is useful for the anal...

Governments all over the world have invoked tourism with aspirations for regional development, especially in rural areas experiencing marginal social and economic circumstances. This article focuses on a case-study area in order to carry out a critical assessment of rural tourism development, leading to an alternative model. The chosen area is loca...

Los Estados-nación han buscado el control de sus respectivos territorios soberanos desde su conformación en época moderna. En tiempos de la globalización los actores en la esfera internacional se multiplican; entre ellos, destacan las entidades territoriales no centrales, que persiguen una política propia de acción exterior. Una de las líneas privi...

Nation-states have sought the control of their sovereign territories since modern times. In the era of globalisation new actors play their role in the international context. Among them, non-central territorial administrations looking for a particular external action can be mentioned. One of their specific lines of work is cross-border cooperation,...

This article analyzes the vision of Spain conveyed by National Geographic Magazine (NGM) in the period from 1888 to 1936. It is part of a broader line of research into the way geographical magazines aimed at general readers shape popular geographical imaginations. The article has two main objectives. On the one hand, it examines the connections bet...

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The Europe 2020 Strategy (EU2020S) was launched by the European Commission (EC) in November 2009. The consolidated official document of the EU2020S constitutes a Communication from the Commission published in March 2010, being finally adopted by the European Council on the 17th of June 2010 in a meeting held in Brussels. The EU2020S has as meaningf...

The Literary Construction of Borderscapes: A Reflection on the Couto Mixto (Galicia and Portugal). This article explores the recent literary construction of the old Couto Mixto, a unique geopolitical entity that survived until the mid-19th century on the Galician-Portuguese border. Following its demise, the Couto Mixto was gradually forgotten. How...

In the last 20 years, numerous cross-border regions have been launched across Europe. Many studies have been carried out dealing with the analysis of regional building processes. Most of them focus on the work developed by local elites profiting from economic, political and institutional factors to build up cross-border regions. Studies focusing on...

Borders delimitate political-administrative systems that adopt different sets of rules and procedures dealing with different matters. Regarding cross-border health care, our analysis shows that in some contexts, as is the case in a semi-federal state as Spain, problems and solutions can be applied to external borders (between states) and also to in...

Referencia internacional indiscutible desde hace un siglo en el campo del fotoperiodismo y en el de la divulgación científica de carácter geográfico, National Geographic Magazine ha contribuido poderosamente a modelar la imagen pública de la geografía, y, de manera más amplia, la forma de percibir el mundo, sus culturas y sus paisajes, por parte de...

Finalment, en els dos darrers capítols del llibre, hi trobem que el canvi de con-sideració cap als mons molecular i genètic orienta els treballs dedicats a la producció de noves natures i als conreus transgènics. El text de Bruce Braun, potser un dels de més dificultat de tot el llibre, s'interroga com la creixent «molecularització» de les nostres...

PAÜL, Valerià; ARAÚJO, Noelia y FRAIZ, José A.Manual de turismo na natureza e a súa aplicación en GaliciaVigo: Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de Vigo, 2011, 263 p.ISBN 978-84-8158-542-1

Los estudios sobre fronteras viven un auge en las últimas dos décadas. A los enfoques más clásicos de la geopolítica, se suman múltiples y renovadas miradas hacia las fronteras, provenientes de distintos campos disciplinares. El presente texto busca encontrar el lugar que ocupa actualmente la geografía histórica de las fronteras, que se nutre de lo...