1st Edition
Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins Creating Exotic Iceland
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
Biography
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.
