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Kristín Loftsdóttir

Anthropology

#2044

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#2632

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Cultural Anthropology

#134

World Rank

#167

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Anthropology

Kristín Loftsdóttir's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Kristín Loftsdóttir is a professor in anthropology at the University of Iceland. Kristín has organized and been part of diverse research projects. Examples include research on racism, colonialism, whiteness, precarious migrants, crisis, and nationalism. Kristín has also conducted research relating to the tourism industry, development cooperation and masculinity. Kristín has done research in Europe , as well as West Africa . Kristín's writings have also appeared in many scholarly journals and chapters in books. Kristín has written three monographs and two novels and edited six books with others.

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Kristín Loftsdóttir's Published Works

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Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities (2016) (153)
Never forgetting? Gender and racial-ethnic identity during fieldwork (2002) (31)
Shades of otherness: representations of Africa in 19th‐century Iceland (2008) (26)
The Exotic North: Gender, Nation Branding and Post-colonialism in Iceland (2015) (26)
Colonialism at the margins: politics of difference in Europe as seen through two Icelandic crises (2012) (24)
Invisible colour: Landscapes of whiteness and racial identity in international development (2009) (21)
Being “The Damned Foreigner”: Affective National Sentiments and Racialization of Lithuanians in Iceland (2017) (21)
The Bush Is Sweet: Identity, Power and Development Among WoDaaBe Fulani in Niger (2008) (20)
More than a stopover: Analysing the postcolonial image of Iceland as a gateway destination (2017) (20)
Cultivating Culture? Images of Iceland, Globalization and Multicultural Society (2009) (20)
Introduction Nordic Exceptionalism and the Nordic ‘Others’ (2016) (19)
Being a desirable migrant: perception and racialisation of Icelandic migrants in Norway (2017) (19)
Whiteness is from another world: Gender, Icelandic international development and multiculturalism (2012) (16)
“PURE MANLINESS”: THE COLONIAL PROJECT AND AFRICA'S IMAGE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY ICELAND (2009) (15)
Building on Iceland's ‘Good Reputation’: Icesave, Crisis and Affective National Identities (2016) (15)
Republishing ‘The Ten Little Negros’: Exploring nationalism and ‘whiteness’ in Iceland (2013) (15)
Negotiating white Icelandic identity: multiculturalism and colonial identity formations (2011) (14)
“Puffin love”: Performing and creating Arctic landscapes in Iceland through souvenirs (2018) (13)
Vikings Invade Present-Day Iceland (2014) (13)
Iceland, rejected by McDonald's: desire and anxieties in a global crisis (2014) (12)
Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins (2019) (11)
Trapped in clichés: masculinity, films and tourism in Iceland (2017) (11)
The bush is sweet: Identity and desire among the WoDaaBe in Niger (2000) (11)
Within a ‘white’ affective space: racialization in Iceland and development discourses (2014) (10)
Black on White: Danish Colonialism, Iceland and the Caribbean (2013) (10)
Nordic Exceptionalism and the Nordic 'Others' (2012) (10)
Belonging and the Icelandic Others: Situating Icelandic Identity in a Postcolonial Context (2016) (9)
Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism (2014) (9)
Finding a place in the world: Political subjectivities and the imagination of Iceland after the economic crash (2018) (9)
Where My Cord is Buried: WoDaaBe Use and Conceptualization of Land (2001) (9)
Teaching "Race" with a Gendered Edge (2012) (9)
‘The Danes don't get this’: the economic crash and Icelandic postcolonial engagements (2016) (8)
Knowing what to do in the city: WoDaaBe nomads and migrant workers in Niger (2002) (8)
Feminist Theory and that Critical Edge (2011) (8)
When nomads lose cattle: wodaabe negotiations of ethnicity (2005) (7)
A Difficult Time: Migrant Work and the WoDaaBe in Niger (2001) (6)
Global citizens, exotic others, and unwanted migrants: mobilities in and of Europe (2016) (6)
An alternative world: a perspective from the North on racism and migration (2020) (6)
Þingvellir: Commodifying the “Heart” of Iceland (2016) (6)
A field guide to white supremacy (2021) (6)
Transnational Influences, Gender Equality and Violence in Muslim Families (2016) (5)
Birds of the Bush: Wodaabe Distinctions of Society and Nature (2001) (5)
Bounded and Multiple Identities. Ethnic Identifications of WoDaaBe and FulBe (2007) (5)
The ‘Jeep-Gangsters’ from Iceland (2010) (5)
Vikings in Brazil: the Iceland Brazil Association shaping Icelandic heritage (2016) (4)
‘Pure manliness’: The Colonial Project and Africa’s Image in 19th Century Iceland (2009) (4)
Where Are You From?”: Racism and the Normalization of Whiteness in Iceland (2022) (3)
Dualistic Colonial Experiences and the Ruins of Coloniality (2019) (3)
International Development and the Globally Concerned European Subject (2016) (3)
Racist Caricatures in Iceland in the Early 20th Century (2011) (2)
Introduction: Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond (2014) (2)
Women in Pastoral Societies: Applying WID, Eco-feminist, and Postmodernist Perspectives (2001) (2)
The Enemy Outside and Within (2016) (1)
Commercializing Culture: Artisanry Production and the Wodaabe in Niger (2001) (1)
Risk taking business Vikings: Gendered dynamics in Icelandic banks and financial companies (2015) (1)
Wise Viking Daughters:: Equality and Whiteness in Economic Crisis (2018) (1)
The Word I Hate: Racism, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Iceland (2020) (1)
Going to Eden: Nordic exceptionalism and the image of blackness in Iceland (2014) (1)
Nordic exceptionalism and gendered peacekeeping: The case of Iceland (2015) (1)
The opening of Costco in Iceland: Unexpected meanings of globalized phenomenon (2017) (1)
Unpolitical Wars: Presentations of Conflict in Development and Foreign Policy Discourses in Iceland (2012) (1)
‘Europe is finished’: migrants lives in Europe’s capital at times of crisis (2019) (1)
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. (2015) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Hidden Stories (2022) (0)
Book reviews (2011) (0)
Majcher, Izabella, Flynn, Michael and Grange, Mariette. 2020. Immigration Detention in the European Union: In the Shadow of the “Crisis”. Cham: Springer. 480 pp (2021) (0)
Bounded and Multiple Identities (2007) (0)
All’s well that ends well: the aftermath of the crash (2018) (0)
Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic Heritage in Brazilian Identity Making (2021) (0)
"The reason I stay here in Beijing is not for living. I‘m just working here" (2012) (0)
MAKING THE FAMILIAR STRANGE: RACE IN CRISIS EUROPE (2015) (0)
Altered States of Exceptions (2021) (0)
Tourism Development and Housing After Iceland’s 2008 Crash (2021) (0)
Exceptionalism (2021) (0)
Snertifletir. Andlit úr gifsi og samtenging heimsins (2020) (0)
Nation-Building and Nation Branding (2021) (0)
Exceptionalism in Times of Crisis and Pandemics (2021) (0)
The Place of Birth: Wodaabe Changing Histories of Origin (2002) (0)
Welfare State Exceptionalism in the Nordic Countries and Britain (2021) (0)
14. Music and Icelandic Independence: from the 1930 Parliament Festival to Harpa (2018) (0)
We are All Africans Here (2022) (0)
Chapter 5: ‘Not Just Crying About the Money’: Iceland and Globalisation During Boom and Crisis (2018) (0)
From Colonial to Postcolonial Exceptionalism (2021) (0)
We Are All Africans Here: Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe (2021) (0)
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. (2022) (0)
Nations of bankers and Brexiteers? Nationalism and hidden money (2021) (0)
Let’s stone this trash: Hate speech in Icelandic context (2019) (0)
The forbidden flesh: Cultural meanings of humans, animals, and the natural world (1994) (0)
Ambitious Icelanders: The Background and Beginning of Icelandic International Development (2011) (0)
NOT NECESSARILY THE BEST IN THE WORLD: THE BOOM AND CRISIS IN ICELAND (2015) (0)

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