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Kristín Loftsdóttir - Professor
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School of Social Sciences
Kristín Loftsdóttir
Íslenska
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Anthropology
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kristinl [at] hi.is
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Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics
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Kristín Loftsdóttir - published work
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Research portal – Kristín Loftsdóttir
 
Courses 2024 - 2025
MAN005F - Readings in a specific area
MAN017F - Multicultural society and migration
MAN429G - Assignment in anthropology
MAN561L - Ph.D. Thesis in Anthropology
MAN429G - Assignment in anthropology
MAN344G - Nationality, migrants and transnationalism
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
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Published works
2024
Infrapolitical mobilities Precarious migrants and resistance to European rules of mobility
Focaal
‘People need housing to live in’
Housing Studies
Speculating about the migration crisis
Third World Quarterly
2023
Creating Europe from the Margins
Marketing Marginality
Coloniality and Europe at the margins
Creating Europe from the Margins
Andlit til sýnis
Regímenes de in/movilidad y crisis migratoria en la ruta canaria
Perifèria Revista d investigació i formació en Antropologia
Flótti frá Vestur-Afríku til Evrópu
Crafting racism, civilization, and margins through plaster busts of Icelanders
Social Identities
Intervening in the present through fictions of the future
2022
Reclamos de inocencia blanca: multiculturalismo y excepcionalismo en los países nórdicos
Procesos históricos: revista de historia, arte y ciencias sociales
Hidden Stories
Interventions
Bustos y movimientos globales: Islandia, Francia y Gran Canaria
De color invisible
Revista de la Escuela de Antropología
A field guide to white supremacy
Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Where Are You From?": Racism and the Normalization of Whiteness in Iceland
Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies
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
2021
An alternative world
Race and Class
Tourism Development and Housing After Iceland’s 2008 Crash
We Are All Africans Here
Sól og sandur: Ferðir Íslendinga til Kanaríeyja
Tímarit um viðskipti og efnahagsmál
Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity making
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Exceptionalism
We Are All Africans Here
Nations of bankers and Brexiteers? Nationalism and hidden money
Race and Class
“Þú veist ekki hvaða húsnæði þú ferð í næst”: Tvísýnleiki og upplifun leigjenda af íslenskum húsnæðismarkaði
Íslenska þjóðfélagið.
2020
Kynþáttafordómar
Racism and Racialization in Iceland
Snertifletir: Andlit úr gifsi og samtenging heimsins
Ritið
The Word I Hate: Racism, Refugees and Assylum seekers in Iceland
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
Mobility and Transnational Iceland
2019
Dualistic colonial experiences and the ruins of coloniality
Scandinavian Studies
Music and Icelandic Independence: from the 1930 Parliament Festival to Harpa
Íslenskur vinnumarkaður – erlent starfsfólk
Íslenska þjóðfélagið.
„Fenguð þið frí af Litla-Hrauni?“ Kynþáttahyggja og fordómar í garð fólks frá Litháen í upphafi 21. aldar
Íslenska þjóðfélagið.
Grýta þetta pakk: Haturstjáning í íslensku samhengi
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
2018
Global citizens, exotic others, and unwanted migrants
Identities
Finding a place in the world political subjectivities and the imagination of Iceland after the economic crash
Focaal
Crisis and coloniality at europe’s margins
Introduction
Messy Europe
“Puffin love”
Tourist Studies
‘Not Just Crying About the Money’
„Ég elti auðinn til Evrópu“: Sögur af fólki á flótta, innflytjendum og ,,ólöglegum“ einstaklingum
Ritið
Wise viking daughters
2017
The opening of Costco in Iceland: Unexpected meanings of globalized phenomenon
Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration
‘Europe is finished’: migrants lives in Europe’s capital at times of crisis
Social Identities
Trapped in clichés
Gender, Place and Culture
Being "the Damned Foreigner": Affective National Sentiments and Racialization of Lithuanians in Iceland
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
More than a stopover
Tourist Studies
2016
Vikings in Brazil
International Journal of Heritage Studies
Inngangur: Ísland í heiminum og heimurinn í Íslandi
Flóttafólk á Íslandi
International Development and the Globally Concerned European Subject
Interventions
Belonging and the Icelandic others
Building on Iceland's ‘Good Reputation’
Ethnos
Introduction
‘The Danes don't get this’
National Identities
Introduction
Being a desirable migrant: perception and racialisation of Icelandic migrants in Norway
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Crisis in the nordic nations and beyond
The enemy outside and within
“Heimur sem snerti okkur Íslendinga ekki”: Kynþáttafordómar á Íslandi í ljósi sögunnar
Þingvellir
Whiteness and postcolonialism in the Nordic region
"Hún gæti alveg verið múslimi og allt það": Ráðning fólks af erlendum uppruna til íslenskra fyrirtækja
Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration
The tourist and the migrant worker: Different Perceptions of Mobility in Iceland
“Still a Lot of Staring and Curiosity”: Racism and the Racialization of African Immigrants in Iceland
2015
Risk taking business Vikings: Gendered dynamics in Icelandic banks and financial companies
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
The Exotic North: Gender, Nation Branding and Post-colonialism in Iceland
NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Útlendingar, negrastrákar og hryðjuverkamenn: Kynþáttafordómar í íslenskum samtíma: Kynþáttafordómar í íslenskum samtíma
Ritið
Grín, íslam og fordómar í fjölmenningarlegu samfélagi
Ritið
NOT NECESSARILY THE BEST IN THE WORLD: THE BOOM AND CRISIS IN ICELAND
AAS working papers in social anthropology
Hlutgerving og kynþáttaflokkanir á Íslandssafninu í París: Hugleiðingar út frá myndum Ólafar Nordal
Skírnir
Nordic exceptionalism and gendered peacekeeping
European Journal of Women's Studies
Áhættusækni í útrásargleði: Karlar og konur í bönkum og fjármálafyrirtækjum
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
2014
Within a ‘white’ affective space
Social Identities
Iceland, rejected by McDonald's
Social Anthropology
Introduction
Crisis in the nordic nations and beyond
Vikings invade present-day Iceland
Icelandic Identities in a Postcolonial Context
Imagining Blackness at the Margins
Andmæli við doktorsvörn
Saga: tímarit Sögufélags
“Við viljum bara vita hvaðan við erum og hver við erum”: Brasilíufararnir og afkomendur þeirra
Ritið
Within a ‘white’ affective space: racialization in Iceland and development discourses
Social Identities
Going to Eden
African and Black Diaspora
Iceland, rejected by McDonald's: desire and anxieties in a global crisis
Social Anthropology
Bankar í ljóma þjóðernishyggju: Efnahagshrunið, hnattvæðing og menning
Skírnir
‘The enemy outside and within’
2013
Republishing 'The Ten Little Negros'
Ethnicities
Black on White: Danish Colonialism, Iceland and the Caribbean
Vettvangsrannsóknir
Endurútgáfa Negrastrákana: Söguleg sérstaða Íslands, þjóðernishyggja og kynþáttafordómar
Ritið
2012
Teaching “Race” with a Gendered Edge
Belonging and the Icelandic others
Whiteness is from another world
European Journal of Women's Studies
Colonialism at the margins
Identities
Teaching race with a gendered edge
Teaching "race" with a gendered edge-introduction
Whiteness and postcolonialism in the Nordic region
Unpolitical wars
International Peacekeeping
Introduction
The White Flesh of a Fish: Reflections about Whiteness and Methodologies
Graduate Journal of Social Sciences
2011
Stórhuga Íslendingar: Forsaga og upphaf íslenskrar þróunarsamvinnu
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
IDENTITY PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS IN MULTI-ETHNIC EUROPE
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Hlutgerving íslenskrar menningar: Samfélagsleg urmæða um grunnskólalögin, trúarbrögð og fjölmenningarlegt samfélag
Skírnir
Learning about Africa: The Imagination of Africa in Icelandic Schoolbooks
Negotiating white Icelandic identity
Social Identities
Ambitious Icelanders: The Background and Beginning of Icelandic International Development
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
Skörun kynþáttafordóma og þjóðernishyggju: Fólk af afrískum uppruna á Íslandi
Feminist theory and that critical edge
NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Racist Caricatures in Iceland in the early 20th century
2010
Encountering Others in the Icelandic Schoolbooks: Images of Imperialism and Racial Diversity in the 19th Century
Introduction
Introduction
Becoming Civilized: Iceland and the Colonial Project in the 19th century
Konan sem fékk spjót í höfuði: Flækjur og furðuheimar vettavangsrannsókna
The ‘Jeep-Gangsters’ from Iceland
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 'jeep-gangsters' from iceland
Critique of Anthropology
Ímynd, ímyndun og útrásin: Vegvísir fyrir rannsóknir á kreppunni
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
Leyfar nýlendutímans og kynþáttahyggju: Ljóð Davíðs Stefánssonar, Tómasar Guðmundssonar og deilur um skopmynd Sigmunds
Skírnir
2009
The Diversified Iceland: Identity and Multicultural Societies in Icelandic Schoolbooks
Margbreytileiki og fjölmenningarlegt samfélag í námsbókum: Sýn aðalnámskrár grunnskóla og gátlista Námsgagnastofnunar
Uppeldi og menntun
Íslenskar minjar nýlendutímans: Alþjóðleg tengsl og fjölmenning í hnattrænu samhengi
Invisible colour
Anthropology Today
"Pure manliness"
Identities
Fjölmenning, námsefni og jafnrétti
Íslendingar þrífa ekki herbergi: Skörun kyns og uppruna í störfum á hóteli
Kjarnmesta fólkið í heimi: Þrástef íslenskrar þjóðernishyggju í gegnum lýðveldisbaráttu, útrás og kreppu
Ritið
Cultivating Culture? Images of Iceland, Globalization and Multicultural society
Invisable Color: Landscapes of Whiteness and Racial Identity in International Development
Anthropology Today
2008
Shades of otherness
Social Anthropology
Þróunarland verður til: Tilkoma hugmyndarinnar um þróunarlönd á Íslandi
Í nafni mannúðar og menningar: Vald, kyn og atbeini í íslenskri þróunarhjálp
The Bush is Sweet: Identity, Power and, Development among WoDaaBe Fulani in Niger
2007
Hvar á að ræða um kynþátt í skólabókum? Kynþáttahyggja, fjölmenning og íslenskt samfélag
Learning Differences: Nationalism, Identity and Africa in Icelandic Schoolbooks
The Journal of the George-Eckert Institute
Kannski voru þeir bara villimenn“: Framandleiki, Afríka og ólíkar afmarkanir „hinna“
Mjúkar konur og harðir karlar: Kynjaðar orðræður um þróunarmál
Furðulönd í fjarska : ímyndir Afríku á Íslandi /
Innflytjendur: Viðurkenning og virðing í íslensku samhengi
Hin mörgu andlit Íslands: Fjölmenning í námsbókum
Netla
Bounded and multiple identities ethnic identifications of WoDaaBe and FulBe
Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines
Útrás Íslendinga og hnattvæðing þess þjóðlega: Horft til Silvíu Nóttar og Magna
Ritið
2006
Ævintýrið Afríka: Minni og ímyndir Afríku í fylgiblöðum Morgunblaðsins
Þriðji sonur Nóa: Íslenskar ímyndir Afríku á miðöldum
Saga: tímarit Sögufélags
2005
When nomads lose cattle: wodaabe negotiations of ethnicity
African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie
Menntaðar og villtar þjóðir: Afríka í texta íslenskra námsbóka
Uppeldi og menntun
Bláir menn og eykonan Ísland
Ritið
Í fréttum er þetta helst: Myndræn og kynjuð orðræða fjölmiðla
Hið furðulega við Afríku: Félagslegt minni, nýlendusafnið og Afríka á Íslandi
2004
Inngangur
Topographies of Globalization
Líkamar framandi kvenna
'This Time It's Different': Globalization, Power and Mobility
Ég er ekki með kynþáttafordóma en...." Hugtakið kynþáttur og íslenskt samfélag
Tómið og myrkrið: Afríka
Skírnir
"Staðið á sama". Vald og andóf WoDaaBe kvenna
2003
Hnattvæðing í ljósi menningar, hreyfanleika og nútímans
Menning, trúarbrögð, hefðir: Kynjaðar orðræður um tvo-þriðju hluta heimsins
Studia Theologica
2002
Nútíminn og hefðir í hnattvæddum heimi
Ritröð Guðfræðistofnunar
The Place of Birth: Wodaabe Changing Histories of Origin
History in Africa
Commercializing Culture: Artisanry Production and the Wodaabe in Niger
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Knowing what to do in the city: WoDaaBe nomads and migrant workers in Niger
Anthropology Today
Never forgetting? Gender and racial-ethnic identity during fieldwork
Social Anthropology
Where My Cord is Buried: WoDaaBe Use and Conceptualization of Land
Journal of Political Ecology
2001
WoDaaBe
Women in Pastoral Societies: Using WID, Eco-feminist, and Postmodernist Perspectives
Arizona Anthropologist
Birds of the Bush: WoDaaBe Definitions of Society and Nature
Nordic Journal of African Studies
2000
Fæði og félagsleg tengsl meðal WoDaaBe í Níger
1997
WoDaaBe: Dansað í eyðimörkinni
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