Work hard, play hard

Selling Kelowna, BC, as year‐round playground

Bibliographic Data

ID8423366
AuthorsLuis L M Aguiar (0000-0002-6241-9785), Luis Aguiar (0000-0001-6176-7393, University of British Columbia, corresponding author), Patricia Tomic (University of British Columbia, corresponding author), Ricardo Trumper (0000-0001-6777-6549, University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume49
Issue2
Pages123-139
Publication date2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-3658 • E-ISSN: 1541-0064
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0008-3658.2005.00084.x
OpenAlexW2020771724
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited30

A keen interest in place making and place selling is widespread in contemporary society. While the bulk of academic research has focused on studying the restructuring of large urban conglomerates, places beyond the exploding metropolis, by comparison, have received little attention, especially when it concerns Canadian landscapes. In an attempt to study the particularities of place making in contemporary smaller, more isolated communities—hinterlands—this work analyses the city of Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada. We argue that historically Kelowna, a small rural community specialising in ranching, forestry and fruit production, since the early 1980s, has been re‐imagined and re‐designed, on the one hand as an all‐year playground and as an innovative frontier for high‐tech industries; on the other hand, this post‐Fordist reinvention contains a discourse of ‘whiteness’, one that entices by packaging ‘place’ in terms of ‘sameness’ and ‘familiarity’. In contrast to large cosmopolitan post‐industrial cities, hinterland‐type cities are invented, sought and lived as geographies cleared from the ‘elements’ that make cities ‘unsafe’

Clearance · Frontier · Political science · Restructuring · Sociology · Work (physics) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban Planning and Governance

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