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Kristín Loftsdóttir - Professor
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School of Social Sciences
Kristín Loftsdóttir
Íslenska
Professor
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Oddi / O-314
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525 - 4261
Email
kristinl [at] hi.is
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Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics
Published Work
Kristín Loftsdóttir - published work
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3491-724X
Research portal – Kristín Loftsdóttir
Under construction throughout the autumn semester 2023
Courses 2023 - 2024
MAN101F - Images, power and orientalism
MAN005F - Readings in a specific area
MAN429G - Assignment in anthropology
MAN561L - Ph.D. Thesis in Anthropology
MAN004F - Readings in a specific area
FMÞ102F - Theories in Social and human Sciences
MAN326G - Assignment in anthropology
MAN095F - Globalization
MAN561L - Ph.D. Thesis in Anthropology
Collaboration
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University of Arizona
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1992
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University of Iceland
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Published works
2023
A field guide to white supremacy
Ethnic and Racial Studies
2022
Claims of White Innocence: Multiculturalism and Exceptionalism in the Nordic Countries
Procesos Historicos-Revista Semestral de Historia Arte Y Ciencias Sociales
Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA: A Historical Exploration of Identity
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Sverdljuk, Jana, Joranger, Terje Mikael Hasle, Jackson, Erika K and Kivisto, Peter (eds.) 2021. Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA: A Historical Exploration of Identity. London: Routledge. 192 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Hidden Stories
Interventions
2021
An alternative world: a perspective from the North on racism and migration
Race and Class
Immigration Detention in the European Union: In the Shadow of the "Crisis"
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic Heritage in Brazilian Identity Making
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Becoming nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity making
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nations of bankers and Brexiteers? Nationalism and hidden money
Race and Class
2020
Dualistic Colonial Experiences and the Ruins of Coloniality
Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie
'The Word I Hate': Racism, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Iceland
Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration
2019
The Colonial Exhibition in Tivoli Racism and colonial others
Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
The fall from the top of the world The economic crash in 2008
Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
All's well that ends well The aftermath of the crash
Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
The desire to become modern Forging of the Icelandic subject
Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
Warehouse of cultural scenarios Creating the new Icelandic character
Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
The exceptional island in a world of crisis Reimaging iceland as exceptional
Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
The iceberg drifting in the sea Creating a sense of national identity during times of crisis
Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
Dualistic Colonial Experiences and the Ruins of Coloniality
Scandinavian Studies
Probably the best in the world? Engaging with Iceland's colonial past
Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
The trickster in the north In the world of colonizers and colonized
Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
Dualistic Colonial Experiences and the Ruins of Coloniality
Scandinavian Studies
‘Europe is finished’: migrants lives in Europe’s capital at times of crisis
Social Identities
"Let's stone this trash": Hate speech in Icelandic context
Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration
Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins Creating Exotic Iceland Introduction
Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
Even McDonald's has left us The hierarchies of nations
Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
The big bite The economic miracle in Iceland
Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
2018
Introduction
Messy Europe: Crisis, Race and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
Finding a place in the world political subjectivities and the imagination of Iceland after the economic crash
Focaal
“Puffin love”: Performing and creating Arctic landscapes in Iceland through souvenirs
Tourist Studies
Global citizens, exotic others, and unwanted migrants: mobilities in and of Europe
Identities
Messy Europe: Crisis, race and nation-state in a postcolonial world
Messy Europe: Crisis, Race and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
Wise viking daughters: Equality and whiteness in economic crisis
Messy Europe: Crisis, Race and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
2017
Being “The Damned Foreigner”: Affective National Sentiments and Racialization of Lithuanians in Iceland
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Trapped in clichés: masculinity, films and tourism in Iceland
Gender, Place & Culture
Being a desirable migrant: perception and racialisation of Icelandic migrants in Norway
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
The opening of Costco in Iceland: Unexpected meanings of globalized phenomenon
Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration
2016
Global citizens, exotic others, and unwanted migrants: mobilities in and of Europe
Identities
Vikings in Brazil: the Iceland Brazil Association shaping Icelandic heritage
International Journal of Heritage Studies
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE GLOBALLY CONCERNED EUROPEAN SUBJECT
Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
Þingvellir: Commodifying the “Heart” of Iceland
Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North
Being a desirable migrant: perception and racialisation of Icelandic migrants in Norway
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Building on Iceland's 'Good Reputation': Icesave, Crisis and Affective National Identities
Ethnos
"Hún gæti alveg verið múslimi og allt það": Ráðning fólks af erlendum uppruna til íslenskra fyrirtækja
Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
More than a stopover: Analysing the postcolonial image of Iceland as a gateway destination
Tourist Studies
The enemy outside and within: The crisis and imagining the global in iceland
Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism
2015
Áhættusækni í útrásargleði: Karlar og konur í bönkum og fjármálafyrirtækjum
Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
Risk taking business Vikings: Gendered dynamics in Icelandic banks and financial companies
Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration
‘The Danes don't get this’: the economic crash and Icelandic postcolonial engagements
National Identities
NOT NECESSARILY THE BEST IN THE WORLD: THE BOOM AND CRISIS IN ICELAND
AAS working papers in social anthropology
Nordic exceptionalism and gendered peacekeeping: The case of Iceland
European Journal of Womens Studies
International Development and the Globally Concerned European Subject
Interventions
The Exotic North: Gender, Nation Branding and Post-colonialism in Iceland
Nora-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Enloe, Cynthia. 2014. Seriously! Investigating crashes and crises as if women mattered. Berkeley: University of California Press. 264 pp. Pb.: US$24.76. ISBN: 978-0520275379.
Social Anthropology
Gambling Debt
Gambling Debt: iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy
2014
Crisis in the nordic nations and beyond: At the intersection of environment, finance and multiculturalism
Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism
Vikings Invade Present-Day Iceland
Gambling Debt: Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy
Introduction: Crisis in the nordic nations and beyond
Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism
Within a ‘white’ affective space: racialization in Iceland and development discourses
Social Identities
Iceland, rejected by McDonald's: desire and anxieties in a global crisis
Social Anthropology
‘The enemy outside and within’: The crisis and imagining the global in Iceland
Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism
2013
Republishing ‘The Ten Little Negros’: Exploring nationalism and ‘whiteness’ in Iceland
Ethnicities
Going to Eden: Nordic exceptionalism and the image of blackness in Iceland
African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal
Black on White: Danish Colonialism, Iceland and the Caribbean
Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity
2012
Nordic Exceptionalism and the Nordic 'Others' Introduction
Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities
Teaching "race" with a gendered edge-introduction
Teaching Race with a Gendered Edge: Teaching with Gender, European women's Studies in International and Interdisciplinary Classrooms
Whiteness and postcolonialism in the Nordic region: Exceptionalism, migrant others and national identities
Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities
Introduction: Nordic exceptionalism and the Nordic 'others'
Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities
Teaching race with a gendered edge: Teaching with gender, European women's studies in international and interdisciplinary classrooms
Teaching Race with a Gendered Edge: Teaching with Gender, European women's Studies in International and Interdisciplinary Classrooms
Belonging and the Icelandic others: Situating Icelandic identity in a postcolonial context
Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities
Whiteness is from another world: Gender, Icelandic international development and multiculturalism
European Journal of Womens Studies
Belonging and the Icelandic Others: Situating Icelandic Identity in a Postcolonial Context
Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities
Unpolitical Wars: Presentations of Conflict in Development and Foreign Policy Discourses in Iceland
International Peacekeeping
Colonialism at the margins: politics of difference in Europe as seen through two Icelandic crises
Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power
Colonialism at the margins: politics of difference in Europe as seen through two Icelandic crises
Identities
2011
Feminist Theory and that Critical Edge
NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Negotiating white Icelandic identity: multiculturalism and colonial identity formations
Social Identities
IDENTITY PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS IN MULTI-ETHNIC EUROPE
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Book reviews
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Ambitious Icelanders: The Background and Beginning of Icelandic International Development
Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration
2010
The ‘Jeep-Gangsters’ from Iceland
Critique of Anthropology
The 'Jeep-Gangsters' from Iceland Local Development Assistance in a Global Perspective
Critique of Anthropology
The loss of innocence: The Icelandic fnancial crisis and colonial past (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
Anthropology Today
The bush is sweet. Identity, power and development among WoDaaBe Fulani in Niger by Loftsdóttir, Kristín
Social Anthropology
2009
Invisible colour: Landscapes of whiteness and racial identity in international development
Anthropology Today
PURE MANLINESS: THE COLONIAL PROJECT AND AFRICA'S IMAGE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY ICELAND
Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power
2008
Shades of otherness: representations of Africa in 19th-century Iceland
Social Anthropology
2007
Bounded and Multiple Identities
Cahiers d’études africaines
Bounded and multiple identities ethnic identifications of WoDaaBe and FulBe
Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines
Never forgetting? Gender and racial-ethnic identity during fieldwork
Social Anthropology
2005
When nomads lose cattle: wodaabe negotiations of ethnicity
African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie
2002
Knowing what to do in the city: WoDaaBe nomads and migrant workers in Niger
Anthropology Today
The Place of Birth: Wodaabe Changing Histories of Origin
History in Africa
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