Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland

ISBN-13: 9780367582043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Kristín Loftsdóttir

Opis

This book provides a fresh look at the current politics of identity in Europe. Drawing on Iceland’s response to its financial collapse in 2008, it sheds light on the continued embeddedness of coloniality in everyday identities and aspirations across and within Europe.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction

Part I: Before the Crash

1. The Trickster in the North: In the World of Colonizers and Colonized

2. The Colonial Exhibition in Tivoli: Racism and Colonial Others

3. The Desire to Become Modern: Forging of Icelandic Subject

4. The Big Bite: The Economic Miracle in Iceland

5. Warehouse of Cultural Scenarios: Creating the New Icelandic Character

6. Probably the Best in the World? Engaging with Iceland’s Colonial Past

Part II: After the Crash

7: The Fall from the Top of the World: The Economic Crash in 2008

8. Even McDonalds Has Left Us: The Hierarchies of Nations

9. The Iceberg Drifting in the Sea: Creating a Sense of National Identity during Times of Crisis

10. The Exceptional Island in a World of Crisis: Reimaging Iceland as Exceptional

11. All’s Well that Ends Well: The Aftermath of the Crash

List of References

Index

O autorze

Kristín Loftsdóttir is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland. She is the co-editor of Messy Europe: Crisis, Race and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World;  Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region; Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond; Teaching ‘Race’ with a Gendered Edge; and Topographies of Globalization.