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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.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction (Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Katrín Anna Lund and Björn Thorsteinsson).- Chapter 2. Sensing the common: On the mobilities and makings of sense (Björn Thorsteinsson).- Chapter 3. Poetics of nothingness: Ordering wilderness - Katrín Anna Lund.- Chapter 4. Multispecies stories from the margins - Outi Rantala and Emily Höckert.- Chapter 5. Sailing the seas of tourism - past, present and future mobilities on the margins (Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson).- Chapter 6. On re-dressing remote places. Imaginaries at the margins (Carina Ren).- Chapter 7. On being moved: The mobility of inner landscapes (Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir).- Chapter 8. Melrakkaslétta the meeting-ground: performing qualitative research at the tourism margin (Þórný Barðadóttir).- Chapter 9. Revealing place mobility by walking and map analysing (Elva Björg Einarsdóttir).- Chapter 10. The route into nature: The landscape of mobility (Sigrún Birgisdóttir).- Chapter 11. The satellite at the end of the world. Infrastructural encounters in North Greenland (Mette Simonsen Abildgaard).- Chapter 12. Rush hour in a national park - mobile encounters in a peripheral tourism landscape (Minna Nousiainen, Outi Rantala and Seija Tuulentie).- Chapter 13. Inhabiting the landscape through access rights and the Covid pandemic (Jo Vergunst).
About the author
Björn Thorsteinsson is a professor at the Department of Philosophy, History and Anthropology at the University of Iceland.
Katrín Anna Lund is a professor at the Department of Geography and Tourism at the University of Iceland.
Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson is a professor at the Department of Geography and Tourism at the University of Iceland.
Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir is an assistant professor at the Department of Art Education at Iceland University of the Arts.
