Coping with Distances: Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies (0) - Hardcover

Bærenholdt, Jørgen Ole

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845452909 ISBN 13: 9781845452902

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2007

Synopsis

Coping with Distances 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 the Nordic regions. Full description

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Review:

"Baerenholdt's compelling work addresses themes and ideas that extend well beyond the North Atlantic...His well-researched, intriguing study delves into theories of social formation as well as the histories and intricacies of historical and modern Nordic societies...[and] presents the complexity of social formation in the Nordic Atlantic in an in-depth and approachable format." - Choice

"In many ways, Bærenholdt's work constitutes a departure from traditional approaches to thinking about territory and society making. It challenges the dominant, traditional views of societies, namely theoretical perspectives on societies as contained within given territories and shaped largely by external forces." - Canadian Review of Sociology

About the Author:

JA rgen Ole Barenholdt is Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change of Roskilde University. He was Visiting professor at the University of TromsA and coordinator of the Nordic Research School on Local Dynamics (NOLD) and of UNESCO's Circumpolar Coping Processes Project. His publications include Coping Strategies in the North (1998), The Reflexive North (2001), Transforming the Local (2001), and Performing Tourist Places (2004).

About this edition

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845452909
• ISBN 13: 9781845452902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312