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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

2023

A field guide to white supremacyEthnic and Racial Studies

2022

Claims of White Innocence: Multiculturalism and Exceptionalism in the Nordic CountriesProcesos Historicos-Revista Semestral de Historia Arte Y Ciencias Sociales
Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA: A Historical Exploration of IdentityNordic 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 StoriesInterventions

2021

An alternative world: a perspective from the North on racism and migrationRace 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 MakingNordic Journal of Migration Research
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

2020

Dualistic Colonial Experiences and the Ruins of ColonialityNovoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie
'The Word I Hate': Racism, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in IcelandIcelandic Review of Politics & Administration

2019

The Colonial Exhibition in Tivoli Racism and colonial othersCrisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
The fall from the top of the world The economic crash in 2008Crisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
All's well that ends well The aftermath of the crashCrisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
The desire to become modern Forging of the Icelandic subjectCrisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
Warehouse of cultural scenarios Creating the new Icelandic characterCrisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
The exceptional island in a world of crisis Reimaging iceland as exceptionalCrisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
The iceberg drifting in the sea Creating a sense of national identity during times of crisisCrisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
Dualistic Colonial Experiences and the Ruins of ColonialityScandinavian Studies
Probably the best in the world? Engaging with Iceland's colonial pastCrisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
The trickster in the north In the world of colonizers and colonizedCrisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
Dualistic Colonial Experiences and the Ruins of ColonialityScandinavian Studies
‘Europe is finished’: migrants lives in Europe’s capital at times of crisisSocial Identities
"Let's stone this trash": Hate speech in Icelandic contextIcelandic Review of Politics & Administration
Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins Creating Exotic Iceland IntroductionCrisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
Even McDonald's has left us The hierarchies of nationsCrisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland
The big bite The economic miracle in IcelandCrisis and Coloniality at europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland

2018

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
“Puffin love”: Performing and creating Arctic landscapes in Iceland through souvenirsTourist Studies
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
Wise viking daughters: Equality and whiteness in economic crisisMessy Europe: Crisis, Race and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World

2017

Being “The Damned Foreigner”: Affective National Sentiments and Racialization of Lithuanians in IcelandNordic Journal of Migration Research
Trapped in clichés: masculinity, films and tourism in IcelandGender, Place & Culture
Being a desirable migrant: perception and racialisation of Icelandic migrants in NorwayJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
The opening of Costco in Iceland: Unexpected meanings of globalized phenomenonIcelandic Review of Politics & Administration

2016

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

2015

Áhættusækni í útrásargleði: Karlar og konur í bönkum og fjármálafyrirtækjumVeftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
Risk taking business Vikings: Gendered dynamics in Icelandic banks and financial companiesIcelandic Review of Politics & Administration
‘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
Nordic exceptionalism and gendered peacekeeping: The case of IcelandEuropean Journal of Womens Studies
International Development and the Globally Concerned European SubjectInterventions
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
Gambling DebtGambling 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 multiculturalismCrisis 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
Introduction: Crisis in the nordic nations and beyondCrisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism
Within a ‘white’ affective space: racialization in Iceland and development discoursesSocial Identities
Iceland, rejected by McDonald's: desire and anxieties in a global crisisSocial Anthropology
‘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

2013

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

2012

Nordic Exceptionalism and the Nordic 'Others' IntroductionWhiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities
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
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
Whiteness is from another world: Gender, Icelandic international development and multiculturalismEuropean Journal of Womens Studies
Belonging and the Icelandic Others: Situating Icelandic Identity in a Postcolonial ContextWhiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities
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
Colonialism at the margins: politics of difference in Europe as seen through two Icelandic crisesIdentities

2011

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

2010

The ‘Jeep-Gangsters’ from IcelandCritique of Anthropology
The 'Jeep-Gangsters' from Iceland Local Development Assistance in a Global PerspectiveCritique 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, KristínSocial Anthropology

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

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

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