Mobilities on the Margins: Creative Processes of Place-Making (1st ed. 2024) (Arctic Encounters)

Synopsis

This open access book examines places on the margins and the dynamics through which a marginal position of a place is created. Specifically, it explores how places, mostly in sparsely populated areas, often perceived as immobile and frozen in time, come into being and develop through interference of everyday mobilities and creative practices that cut across the spheres of culture and nature as usually defined. Through fieldwork and case studies from areas in Iceland, Finland, Greenland, and Scotland, the book’s twelve chapters draw out the multiple relations through which places emerge, where people compose their lives as best they can with their surroundings. A special concern is to explore the links between travelling, landscape, and material culture and how places and margins are enacted through mobilities and creative practices of humans and other beings. The emphasis on mobility disturbs the perception of a place as a bounded entity and offers a useful and necessary understanding of places as mobile and fluid. Mobilities on the Margins is a novel and timely contribution to the exploration of human and more-than-human interactions in a world of increasingly fluid mobilities and insistent crises.

Copyright:

2024

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783031413445

Related ISBNs:

9783031413438

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

11/16/23

Copyrighted By:

The Editor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Technology, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government, Sociology

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Björn Thorsteinsson

Edited by:

Katrín Anna Lund

Edited by:

Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson

Edited by:

Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir