Coping with Distances: Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies

Bærenholdt, Jørgen Ole

 
9781845452902: Coping with Distances: Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies
ISBN 10 : 1845452909 ISBN 13 : 9781845452902
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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).

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1845452909
ISBN 13 
9781845452902
Reliure
Belle reliure
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0857451448 ISBN 13 :  9780857451446
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2011
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