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Gestur Hovgaard
Globalisation, Embeddedness and Local Coping Strategies
- a comparative and qualitative study of local dynamics in
contemporary social change.
Forlaget Samfundsplanlægning. Ph.D. thesis no. 29/2001.
Roskilde: Roskilde University.
Ritgerðin varð vard á Institut for Sam-
fundsvidenskab, Roskilde Universitetscen-
ter, tann 27. mars 2001. Opponentar vóru:
Herman Schmid, lektari, RUC (formaður),
Ottar Brox, professari, Norsk Institutt for
By og Regionforskning (NIBR) og Bob
Jessop, professari, Lancaster University.
Samandráttur
Ritgerðin viðgerð tær avleiðingar, ið glob-
aliseringin hevur fyri norðuratlantiskar
fiskivinnubygdir. Serligur dentur verður
lagdur á, hvussu strategiir vera mentar til
tess at møta teimum broyttu fyritreytum,
sum globaliseringin hevur á framleiðslu-
viðurskifti og sosialt lív. Boðskapurin kann
sigast vera, at globaliseringin ikki er ein
gongd, sum einans hevur við sær sosiala
marginalisering og útilokan, men skal eis-
ini síggjast sum ein modernisering, ið loys-
ir úr sær resursir og skapar nýggjar møgu-
leikar. Hesar resursir og hesir møguleikar
kunnu fáast virknir gjøgnum væl tillagaðar
og refleksivar strategiir við støði í lokalum
fyritreytum. Boðskapurin er eisini, at fiski-
vinnubygdir ikki eiga at verða roknaðar
sum homogenar eindir, men tvørturmóti
sum eindir við púra ymiskum fyritreytum,
grundað á serstøk lokal viðurskifti.
The thesis was defended at the Institute of
Social Sciences, Roskilde University, on
March 27. 2001. The opponents were: Pro-
fessor Herman Schmid, Roskilde Universi-
ty (chair); Professor Ottar Brox, Norwe-
gian Institute for Urban and Regional Re-
search (NIBR) and Professor Bob Jessop,
Lancaster University.
Resume
The thesis is about the effects of globalisa-
tion on North Atlantic fishing communities
and the strategies they have developed to
cope with the changing conditions they
confront in their economic and social life.
The message the thesis provides is that
globalisation (even in its current neo-liber-
al form) does not doom these societies to
marginalisation and exclusion but, as part
of a more general modernisation process,
also opens new resources for these commu-
nities that can be mobilised by well-adapt-
ed, self-reflexive responses based on local
resources and autonomous collective ac-
tion rooted in community traditions.
The empirical documentation in the the-
sis is based on the historical and current de-
velopment of two fisheries villages in the
North, Klaksvík on the Faroe Islands and
Bátsfjord in Finnmark county, Northern