Focusing on the Northern European periphery, this book examines how people live in such remote spaces in an emerging global world of connectivity, interdependency, mobility and non-linear dynamics. It demonstrates how specific relationships between mobility and place are crucial in the making of societies and investigates their intersection; how they mutually constitute each other.

Chapter 1 Places and Mobilities Beyond the Periphery, Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt, Brynhild Granås; Part 1 Placing Mobility; Chapter 2 Place as Encounters: Practice, Conjunction and Co-existence, Kirsten Simonsen; Chapter 3 Being Along: Place, Time and Movement among Sámi People, Nuccio Mazzullo, Tim Ingold; Chapter 4 Sensing Places: The Ethics of Authentic Place, Inger Birkeland; Chapter 5 Re-centring Periphery: Negotiating Identities in Time and Space, Gry Paulgaard; Chapter 6 Villages on the Move: From Places of Necessity to Places of Choice, Gestur Hovgaard, Sámal Matras Kristiansen; Chapter 7 A Travelling Fishing Village: The Specific Conjunctions of Place, Siri Gerrard; Part 2 Connections and Encounters; Chapter 8 1The first part of this chapter in part draws upon Mobilities, Networks, Geographies () and Mobilities ()., Jonas Larsen, John Urry; Chapter 9 Young Refugees in a Network Society, Brekke Marianne; Chapter 10 Labour Migrants Negotiating Places and Engagements, Skaptadóttir Unnur Dís, Wojtynska Anna; Chapter 11 1This chapter has been written as part of the research project ‘Women Crossing Borders’, financed by The Research Council of Norway., Flemmen Anne Britt, Lotherington Ann Therese; Chapter 12 The Svalbard Transit Scene, Arvid Viken; Part 3 Mobilizing Place; Chapter 13 Enacting Places through the Connections of Tourism, Jóhannesson Gunnar Thór, Bærenholdt Jørgen Ole; Chapter 14 Outside In: Peripheral Cultural Industries and Global Markets, Power Dominic, Jansson Johan; Chapter 15 Place and Transport: Part Icularities of a Town and its Mobilities, Brynhild Granås, Torill Nyseth; Chapter 16 Politics of the Interface: Displacing Trans-border Relations, Ari Aukusti Lehtinen; Chapter 17 Moving Places: The Emotional Politics of Nature, Karl Benediktsson; Chapter 18 Place-making through Mega-events, Siv Ellen Kraft; Chapter 19 Modernity Re-enchanted: Making a ‘Magic’ Region, Willy Guneriussen;

'This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays brings together astute theoretical practice and detailed empirical investigation to shed light on the entanglement of place and mobility in the marginalized spaces of Northern Europe. In its refusal to privilege either the located or the mobile it is exemplary and should be read by all those interested in the geographies of place and mobility.' Tim Cresswell, University of London, UK 'This exciting collection of articles on mobility and place is topical in many senses. It shows at first, in the spirit of the emerging mobility paradigm, how these categories can be brought together and approached from various theoretical angles and concrete perspectives. Secondly, the book displays how social and cultural context makes a difference but also how these contexts are nowadays increasingly related to other contexts, processes and ideologies. While most articles in the book look at what might be labelled as Northern European peripheries, many contributions exceed dichotomies such as global-local, culture-nature or human-non-human. Leaning on approaches developed in human geography, sociology and anthropology, the book usefully takes steps towards interdisciplinary mobility studies.' Anssi Paasi, University of Oulu, Finland '...a welcome addition not only to social science scholarship on the geographical peripheries of northern Europe, but also to global scholarship on place, mobility, migration, and globalization.' Island Studies Journal '...an excellent contribution to the discussion in social sciences on how to capture ambiguities, tensions and processes in social reality. I will highly recommend it to academics and students at all levels in social science.' Geografiska Annaler 'The volume makes a useful contribution to the growing literature on mobility and place...a valuable read for social and cultural geographers and others interested in the complex relations between place and mobility.' European Spatial Research and Policy