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Author Kristin Loftsdottir, 1968- author.

Title Crisis and coloniality at Europe's margins : creating exotic Iceland / Kristin Loftsdottir.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (220 pages).
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computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Routledge research in race and ethnicity
Routledge research in race and ethnicity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Before the crash -- The trickster in the North : in the world of colonizers and colonized -- The colonial exhibition in Tivoli : racism and colonial others -- The desire to become modern : forging of Icelandic subject -- The big bite : the economic miracle in Iceland -- Warehouse of cultural scenarios : creating the new Icelandic character -- Probably the best in the world? : engaging with Iceland's colonial past -- After the crash -- The fall from the top of the world : the economic crash in 2008 -- Even mcdonalds has left us : the hierarchies of nations -- The iceberg drifting in the sea : creating a sense of national identity during times of crisis -- The exceptional island in a world of crisis : reimaging iceland as exceptional -- All's well that ends well : the aftermath of the crash -- List of references -- Index.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Financial crises -- Iceland.
Identity politics -- Iceland.
Iceland -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kristin Loftsdottir, 1968- Crisis and coloniality at Europe's margins : creating exotic Iceland. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019 220 pages Routledge research in race and ethnicity. 9781138497603 (DLC) 2018039629
ISBN 9781138497603
9781351018258 (e-book)
9781351018265 (e-book)

 
    
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