Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins Creating Exotic Iceland

Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland provides a fresh look at the current politics of identity in Europe, using a crisis at the margins of Europe to shed light on the continued embeddedness of coloniality in everyday aspirations and identities. Examining Iceland’s resp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kristín Loftsdóttir, 1968- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge 2018.
2018.
Edición:First edition
Colección:Routledge research in race and ethnicity.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009866289506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Before the crash
  • The trickster in the North : in the world of colonizers and colonized
  • The colonial exhibition in Tivoli : racism and colonial others
  • The desire to become modern : forging of Icelandic subject
  • The big bite : the economic miracle in Iceland
  • Warehouse of cultural scenarios : creating the new Icelandic character
  • Probably the best in the world? : engaging with Iceland's colonial past
  • After the crash
  • The fall from the top of the world : the economic crash in 2008
  • Even mcdonalds has left us : the hierarchies of nations
  • The iceberg drifting in the sea : creating a sense of national identity during times of crisis
  • The exceptional island in a world of crisis : reimaging iceland as exceptional
  • All's well that ends well : the aftermath of the crash
  • List of references
  • Index.