Coping with Distances: Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies

by Jørgen Ole Baerenholdt and Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857451448
• ISBN13: 9780857451446
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"