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Kristín Loftsdóttir - Professor

Kristín Loftsdóttir

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School of Social Sciences

Kristín Loftsdóttir

Professor

Professor in Anthropology

Location
Oddi / O-314
Phone
525 - 4261
Email
kristinl [at] hi.is

Unit
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

Published works

2022

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 StoriesInterventions

2021

An alternative world: a perspective from the North on racism and migrationRace and Class
Becoming nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity makingNordic Journal of Migration Research
Nations of bankers and Brexiteers? Nationalism and hidden moneyRace and Class

2019

Dualistic Colonial Experiences and the Ruins of ColonialityScandinavian Studies
‘Europe is finished’: migrants lives in Europe’s capital at times of crisisSocial Identities

2018

“Puffin love”: Performing and creating Arctic landscapes in Iceland through souvenirsTourist Studies
Wise viking daughters: Equality and whiteness in economic crisisMessy Europe: Crisis, Race and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
IntroductionMessy 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 crashFocaal
Global citizens, exotic others, and unwanted migrants: mobilities in and of EuropeIdentities
Messy Europe: Crisis, race and nation-state in a postcolonial worldMessy Europe: Crisis, Race and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World

2017

Trapped in clichés: masculinity, films and tourism in IcelandGender, Place & Culture
Being “The Damned Foreigner”: Affective National Sentiments and Racialization of Lithuanians in IcelandNordic Journal of Migration Research
Being a desirable migrant: perception and racialisation of Icelandic migrants in NorwayJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

2016

"Hún gæti alveg verið múslimi og allt það": Ráðning fólks af erlendum uppruna til íslenskra fyrirtækjaVeftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
Þingvellir: Commodifying the “Heart” of IcelandPostcolonial Perspectives on the European High North
Vikings in Brazil: the Iceland Brazil Association shaping Icelandic heritageInternational Journal of Heritage Studies
The enemy outside and within: The crisis and imagining the global in icelandCrisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE GLOBALLY CONCERNED EUROPEAN SUBJECTInterventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
Being a desirable migrant: perception and racialisation of Icelandic migrants in NorwayJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
More than a stopover: Analysing the postcolonial image of Iceland as a gateway destinationTourist Studies
Building on Iceland's 'Good Reputation': Icesave, Crisis and Affective National IdentitiesEthnos
Global citizens, exotic others, and unwanted migrants: mobilities in and of EuropeIdentities

2015

Nordic exceptionalism and gendered peacekeeping: The case of IcelandEuropean Journal of Womens Studies
Áhættusækni í útrásargleði: Karlar og konur í bönkum og fjármálafyrirtækjumVeftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
‘The Danes don't get this’: the economic crash and Icelandic postcolonial engagementsNational Identities
NOT NECESSARILY THE BEST IN THE WORLD: THE BOOM AND CRISIS IN ICELANDAAS working papers in social anthropology
International Development and the Globally Concerned European SubjectInterventions
Risk taking business Vikings: Gendered dynamics in Icelandic banks and financial companiesIcelandic Review of Politics & Administration
The Exotic North: Gender, Nation Branding and Post-colonialism in IcelandNora-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

2014

Iceland, rejected by McDonald's: desire and anxieties in a global crisisSocial Anthropology
Within a ‘white’ affective space: racialization in Iceland and development discoursesSocial Identities
Introduction: Crisis in the nordic nations and beyondCrisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism
Vikings Invade Present-Day IcelandGambling Debt: Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy
‘The enemy outside and within’: The crisis and imagining the global in IcelandCrisis 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 multiculturalismCrisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism

2013

Going to Eden: Nordic exceptionalism and the image of blackness in IcelandAfrican and Black Diaspora: An International Journal
Republishing ‘The Ten Little Negros’: Exploring nationalism and ‘whiteness’ in IcelandEthnicities
Black on White: Danish Colonialism, Iceland and the CaribbeanScandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity

2012

Colonialism at the margins: politics of difference in Europe as seen through two Icelandic crisesIdentities
Teaching "race" with a gendered edge-introductionTeaching 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 identitiesWhiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities
Whiteness is from another world: Gender, Icelandic international development and multiculturalismEuropean Journal of Womens Studies
Unpolitical Wars: Presentations of Conflict in Development and Foreign Policy Discourses in IcelandInternational Peacekeeping
Colonialism at the margins: politics of difference in Europe as seen through two Icelandic crisesIdentities-Global Studies in Culture and Power
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 classroomsTeaching 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 contextWhiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities

2011

IDENTITY PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS IN MULTI-ETHNIC EUROPEEthnic and Racial Studies
Ambitious Icelanders: The Background and Beginning of Icelandic International DevelopmentIcelandic Review of Politics & Administration
Negotiating white Icelandic identity: multiculturalism and colonial identity formationsSocial Identities
Book reviewsEthnic and Racial Studies
Feminist Theory and that Critical EdgeNORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

2010

The ‘Jeep-Gangsters’ from IcelandCritique of Anthropology
The 'Jeep-Gangsters' from Iceland Local Development Assistance in a Global PerspectiveCritique of Anthropology
The bush is sweet. Identity, power and development among WoDaaBe Fulani in Niger by Loftsdóttir, KristínSocial 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

2009

Invisible colour: Landscapes of whiteness and racial identity in international developmentAnthropology Today
PURE MANLINESS: THE COLONIAL PROJECT AND AFRICA'S IMAGE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY ICELANDIdentities-Global Studies in Culture and Power

2008

Shades of otherness: representations of Africa in 19th-century IcelandSocial Anthropology

2007

Never forgetting? Gender and racial-ethnic identity during fieldworkSocial Anthropology
Bounded and multiple identities ethnic identifications of WoDaaBe and FulBeCahiers d'Etudes Africaines
Bounded and Multiple IdentitiesCahiers d’études africaines

2005

When nomads lose cattle: wodaabe negotiations of ethnicityAfrican Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie

2002

Knowing what to do in the city: WoDaaBe nomads and migrant workers in NigerAnthropology Today
The Place of Birth: Wodaabe Changing Histories of OriginHistory in Africa

Keywords for Specialisation:

Whiteness and global inequalities

Migrant workers

intersectionality of national identity

Icelandic nationalism

Anthropology of Crisis

Indigenous people

Postcolonialism