Coping with Distances Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies

Name: Coping with Distances Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies
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ISBN: 9780857452825

ISBN-10: 0857452827

ISBN-13: 9780857452825

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Authors: JAï¿½rgen Ole BAï¿½renholdt

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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 social formations, which is through the spatial and temporal practices that produce, reproduce,…

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List price: $22.00
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/30/2007
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 312
Language: English

JAï¿½rgen Ole BAï¿½renholdt is Head of the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change at Roskilde University. He was Visiting professor at the University of TromsAï¿½ and coordinator of the Nordic Research School on Local Dynamics (NOLD) and of UNESCOAï¿½s Circumpolar Coping Processes Project. His publications include Coping Strategies in the North (1998), The Reflexive North (2001), Transforming the Local (2001), Performing Tourist Places (2004), Space Odysseys (2004), Mobility and Place (2008), and Design Research (2010).