| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Communication -- Social aspects -- Scandinavia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Communication -- Social aspects
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Scandinavia -- Social conditions
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North Atlantic Region -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
North Atlantic Region
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Scandinavia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857452825 |
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0857452827 |
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