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

ISBN-13: 9781138497603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 220 str.

Kristin Loftsdottir

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.

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.