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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bærenholdt, Jørgen Ole, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--Social aspects--Scandinavia.

Communication.

Scandinavia--Social conditions.

Scandinavia.

North Atlantic Region--Social conditions.

North Atlantic Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 21, 2014).

ISBN:

9780857452825

0857452827