Coping with Distances

Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-290-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 605 g

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, stabilize, destabilize and change them. He introduces the concept of coping, which means neither mastering nor adapting but relates to in-between strategies and tactics reflected in practices of securing people’s way of life under conditions that are never totally under their control.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bærenholdt, Jørgen Ole

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps, Figures and Photographs

Preface

Chapter 1. Coping on the Margins

Chapter 2. Empowering Research

Chapter 3. Nordic Atlantic Societies Emerging

Chapter 4. Formative Transports

Chapter 5. Nets and Flows I: Fisheries

Chapter 6. Nets and Flows II: Tourism

Chapter 7. Inhabiting Welfare Municipalities

Chapter 8. The Ambivalences of Nordicity

Chapter 9. Transnationalism and ‘Sustainable Development’

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bærenholdt, Jørgen Ole
Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt is Head of the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change at Roskilde University. He was Visiting professor at the University of Tromsø and coordinator of the Nordic Research School on Local Dynamics (NOLD) and of UNESCO¹s 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).