Crisis and coloniality at Europe's margins : : creating exotic Iceland / / Kristin Loftsdottir.

• Superior document: Routledge research in race and ethnicity
• VerfasserIn: Kristin Loftsdottir, 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge research in race and ethnicity.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 pages).

Table of Contents

• 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.