The book Iceland’s Financial Crisis: The Politics of Blame, Protest, and Reconstruction was recently published at Routledge. Editors are Valur Ingimundarson, professor at the University of Iceland, Philippe Urfalino, professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Irma Erlingsdóttir, associate professor at the University of Iceland.
The book is interdisciplinary, focusing on political, economic, social and legal reactions to the financial crisis and bank collapse in 2008. Emphasis is placed on ways to tackle "backward-looking elements" and ideas on sociological "renewal." The book consists of three parts: The fist part examines the economic side with reference to foreign and domestic explanations; the second part focuses on the political, social and legal factors. The third part discusses the attempt to rewrite the Icelandic constitution as "forward-looking features."
Authors to each chapter are: Gylfi Zoega, professor at UI, Jon Elster, professor at Columbia University, Björg Thorarensen, professor at UI, Guðrún Johnsen, assistant professor at UI, Pasquale Pasquino, Professor at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – Raymond Aron Center for Sociological and Political Studies (CNRS) and New York University, Stefán Ólafsson, professor at UI, Anna Soffía Víkingsdóttir, graduate student at UI, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, professor at the University of Victoria, Vilhjálmur Árnason, professor at UI, Valur Ingimundarson, professor at UI, Þorvaldur Gylfason, professor at UI, Salvör Nordal, assistant professor at UI, Jón Gunnar Bernburg, professor at UI, Helga Hallgrímsdóttir, associate professor at the University of Victoria, and Jón Ólafsson, professor at UI.