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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791597103321

Autore

Bærenholdt Jørgen Ole

Titolo

Coping with distances : producing Nordic Atlantic societies / / Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-85745-282-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

943.6/04

943.604

Soggetti

Communication - Social aspects - Scandinavia

Scandinavia Social conditions

North Atlantic Region Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COPING WITH DISTANCES; CONTENTS; LIST OF MAPS, FIGURES AND PHOTOGRAPHS; PREFACE; 1. COPING ON THE MARGINS; 2. EMPOWERING RESEARCH; 3. NORDIC ATLANTIC SOCIETIES EMERGING; 4. FORMATIVE TRANSPORTS; 5. NETS AND FLOWS I: FISHERIES; 6. NETS AND FLOWS II: TOURISM; 7. INHABITING WELFARE MUNICIPALITIES; 8. THE AMBIVALENCES OF NORDICITY; 9. TRANSNATIONALISM AND 'SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT'; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction of functioning communities. But through innovations, networking and the formation of identities people have coped with distances, thus continuously rebuilding societies in Northern Norway, Iceland, the Faroes, and Greenland. Living conditions in the Nordic Atlantic are so extreme that one might ask whether the notion of society is applicable under these circumstances. The author argues that, yes, there is a meaningful way of comprehending these