"Coloniality and Europe at the margins” – The open access chapter focuses on analysis of racism in countries in Europe that have historically perceived themselves as on the margins of Europe, asking how decolonial theory can help to analyse how racism and colonial innocence is expressed. The chapter is in the Routledge International Handbook of [...]
The article Speculating about the migration crisis: Acting from above and below on the Canary Islands route has been published in may issue 2024 in Third World Quarterly, written by Ignacio Fradejas-García & Kristín Loftsdóttir. In the article they asks what kinds of speculation the proclamation of a migration crises creates and who is doing the speculating. The [...]
October 13th, 2023 Location: National Museum of Iceland, lecture hall 10:00-10:20 Welcome from Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir former Pro-Rector of Research, University of Iceland Welcome from Kristín Loftsdóttir, PI of Creating Europe through Racialized Mobilities 10:20-10:40 Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl and Sandra Ponzanesi, editors Creating Europe from the Margins 10:40-11:55 Session one Milica Trakilović, ‘From Nowhere [...]
Routledge has published Creating Europe from the Margins: Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe, edited by Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl and Sandra Ponzanesi. This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. The chapters in the volume inquire critically into the relations and tensions inherent in divisions between the Global [...]
Kristín Loftsdottir and Ignacio Fradejas-García participated at the XVI SIEF congress (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) in Brno, Check Republic, 7-9 June of 2023. This biannual congress meets around 1000 anthropologists, ethnologists, and folklorists from Europe and from all around the world. Kristín and Ignacio have co-organized the panel “Into the unknown: uncertainness as [...]
The article “Hidden stories: Plaster busts in Gran Canaria as Folded Objects” gives insights into Kristín Loftsdóttir’s research into the bust collection in Gran Canaria, where she positions the busts as folded objects in Amade M’charek’s sense. She asks in the article how the process of “unfolding” has the potential of intervening with particular narratives [...]
This special issue of Procesos históricos: revista de historia, arte y ciencias sociales focuses importantly on multiculturalism and whiteness. It is edited by J. M. Persánch and Yolanda Aixelá Cabré. Kristín Loftsdóttir‘s article in the special issue is gives insight from the Nordic countries (the article is in english and spanish). Claims of White Innocence: [...]
The 17th EASA Biennial Conference was celebrated in Belfast on 26-29 July 2022. The CERM project researchers, Kristín Loftsdóttir and Ignacio Fradejas-García, presented an article within the panel “Navigating hurdles and pacing (im)mobilities in times of corona” This panel was convened by Chrysi Kyratsou (Queen's University Belfast), Noel B. Salazar (KU Leuven) and Marta Kempny [...]
The IMISCOE conference in Oslo was an event from June 29 – July 1, 2022, during which the CERM researchers Kristín Loftsdóttir and Ignacio Fradejas-García presented their ongoing investigation about (in)mobilities in the Canary Islands and beyond. Their online presentation, “Drifting within Islands: Precarious and Forced (Im)Mobilities in the Atlantic Migration Route to the EU”, [...]
Kristín Loftsdóttir gave a presentation entitled “One point five percent of the Nation: Transnationalism in the Canary Islands and Icelandic Travelers” (Eitt komma fimm prósent þjóðarinnar: Þverþjóðleiki Kanaríeyja og íslenskir ferðalangar), at the 14th conference on Icelandic Society. The conference was hosted by the University Centre of the Westfjords and held in Ísafjörður, during April 24th - [...]
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