Bærenholdt, J. O. (2007). Coping with distances: producing Nordic Atlantic societies. Oxford, Berghahn Books.
This book explores how communities are constructed in the remote North Atlantic area despite extreme living conditions which present barriers to the construction of functioning communities. Drawing on actor network theory, qualitative interviews and historical research, Bærenholdt argues that people cope with distances through innovations, networking, and the formation of identities in Northern Norway, Iceland, the Faroes, and Greenland. Bærenholdt argues that people construct their communities through everyday practices of coping, which means neither mastering nor adapting but rather relates to strategies and tactics of making do in situations that are beyond their control. Bærenholdt is reflexive about his position as a white, Danish male geographer, particularly in the context of studying Denmark's former and current 'colonial' peripheries.