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Dipping in to the North

Living, Working and Traveling in Sparsely Populated Areas

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Offers the first cohesive and wide ranging examination of how northern communities might gain or lose from emerging and persistent mobility and migration flows

  • Ambitiously attempts to come to grips with the relationships between mobilities, economies, societies and geographies

  • Offers the expertise and knowledge of cultural geographers, economists, social historians and demographers who have been researching mobility issues in the north for the past two decades or more

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
  2. Dipping in to the North: Living, Working and Traveling in Sparsely Populated Areas

    • Dean B. Carson, Marco Eimermann, Linda Lundmark
    Pages 1-14
  3. Small Villages and Socio-Economic Change in Resource Peripheries: A View from Northern Sweden

    • Dean B. Carson, Doris A. Carson, Marco Eimermann, Michelle Thompson, Matthew Hayes
    Pages 27-53
  4. The Changing Youth Population

    • Dean B. Carson, Þóroddur Bjarnason, Olof Andreas Stjernström
    Pages 71-88
  5. Lifestyle Migrants and Intercultural Communication in Swedish Villages

    • Marco Eimermann, Daniel Tomozeiu, Doris A. Carson
    Pages 107-132
  6. Who Works in the North? Challenges and Opportunities for Employment

    • Marco Eimermann, Ingemar Elander
    Pages 133-150
  7. Tradition Is Essential: Clashing Articulations of Sami Identity, Past and Present

    • Carina Green, Benedict E. Singleton, Firouz Gaini
    Pages 151-173
  8. Stayin’ Alive: New Associations in Southern Lapland Farming

    • Alexandre Dubois, Michelle Thompson
    Pages 217-240
  9. Who Travels to the North? Challenges and Opportunities for Tourism

    • Linda Lundmark, Doris A. Carson
    Pages 265-284
  10. Selling Greenness

    • Jundan Jasmine Zhang, Linda Lundmark
    Pages 333-348
  11. Arctification and the Paradox of Overtourism in Sparsely Populated Areas

    • Linda Lundmark, Dieter K. Müller, Dorothee Bohn
    Pages 349-371
  12. Tourism, Seasonality and the Attraction of Youth

    • Tara Duncan, Maria Thulemark, Peter Möller
    Pages 373-392

About this book

Dipping in to the North explores how changing mobility and migration is affecting the social, economic, cultural, and environmental characteristics of sparsely populated areas of northern Sweden (and places like it). It examines who lives in, works in, and visits the north; how and why this has changed over time; and what those changes mean for how the north might develop in the future. The book draws upon deep expertise and knowledge from a range of social scientists, presenting valuable insights in an accessible style for a broad audience.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Linda Lundmark, Marco Eimermann

  • Centre for Tourism and Regional Opportunities, Central Queensland University, Cairns, Australia

    Dean B. Carson

About the editors

Linda Lundmark is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at Umeå University, Sweden. 


Dean Bradley Carson is Research Professor with the Centre for Tourism and Regional Opportunities at CQUniversity (Australia), and a Guest Professor with the Arctic Research Centre at Umeå University. 


Marco Eimermann is Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, and affiliated with the Arctic Research Centre, Umeå University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dipping in to the North

  • Book Subtitle: Living, Working and Traveling in Sparsely Populated Areas

  • Editors: Linda Lundmark, Dean B. Carson, Marco Eimermann

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6623-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6622-6Published: 02 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6625-7Published: 03 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6623-3Published: 01 December 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 411

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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