TY - BOOK ID - 137433610 TI - Coping with distances : producing Nordic Atlantic societies PY - 2011 SN - 0857452827 0857451448 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Communication KW - Social aspects KW - Scandinavia KW - North Atlantic Region KW - Social conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137433610 AB - 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 ER -