ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an approach to territoriality, mobility and coping. It discusses the three dimensions of coping – innovation, networking and the formation of identity – in general for the Nordic Atlantic peripheries. The chapter studies cases of coping from the municipalities of Ilulissat in Greenland and Hornafjordur in Iceland. It also discusses the challenges of coping among inhabitants of the Nordic 'peripheries' in the twenty-first century. Territorial and mobile practices are two principal ways of exercising power spatially. However, the exercise of power through mobility and territoriality is deeply interconnected. 'Coping' signifies an understanding of the production of social relations and spatiality where human practices struggle in creative ways that are neither total mastery nor mere adaptation. Innovations in economies of mobile fish and tourists are often about the spatial organization of flows more than the 'processing' itself.
