Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins : : Creating Exotic Iceland / / by Kristín Loftsdóttir.
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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| Superior document: | Routledge research in race and ethnicity |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boca Raton, FL : : Routledge,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge research in race and ethnicity.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 pages). |
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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.