Coping with distances : producing Nordic Atlantic societies / / Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt, Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde University and Department of Planning and Community Studies, University of Tromsø

• Autore: Bærenholdt Jørgen Ole
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Disciplina: 943.6/04; 943.604
• Soggetto topico: Communication - Social aspects - Scandinavia
• Soggetto geografico: Scandinavia Social conditions; North Atlantic Region Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Coping with distances
• ISBN: 0-85745-282-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910494741103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II