The article “From Iceland to the Canary Islands: Understanding the Appeal of Mass Tourism in the Age of Over-Tourism” has been published in Tourism and Hospitality. It is authored by Kristín Loftsdóttir and Már Wolfang Mixa and focuses on the concept mass tourism through the example of tourist mobilities from Iceland to the Canary Islands, [...]
The panel “Iceland as a Space of Exceptionalism” was held at the Annual Conference American Anthropological Association, Praxis, 20.-23. November 2024. The panel was organized by Kristín Loftsdóttir and focused on the concept exceptionalism in relation to Iceland. Kristín Loftsdóttir, University of Iceland, gave the paper on general aspects of exceptionalism in the paper “Creating [...]
Ignacio Fradejas-García & Kristín Loftsdóttir have published Infrapolitical Mobilities: Precarious Migrants and Resistance to European Rules of Mobility in a special issue in Focaal, Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. By using the concept infrapolitical mobilities, the article draws attention to minor acts that resist and/or navigate the constraints imposed by the racialization and criminalization [...]
Mobility cause lawyering: Contesting regimes of (im) mobility in the Canary Islands migration route to Europe has been published in Critique of Anthropology. It is authored by Ignacio Fradejas-García & Kristín Loftsdóttir. The article analyses cause lawyering as a critical form of resistance to uneven European Union (EU) mobility regimes. Grounded in the proclamation of a [...]
The book Faces on Display: Icelanders and others at the Canary Museum was published by Sögufélagið at the end of the year 2023. The book is in Icelandic. It brings together parts of the research project Creating Europe through Racialized Mobilities (CERM), which deals with different aspects of (im)mobility in Europe, especially with regard to [...]
A seminar On the Move: Iceland and a world of movement was held in the lecture hall of the National and University Library on Tuesday, October 22, 2024. The event was held in connection with the exhibition Faces on display. The authors of the exhibition are Kristín Loftsdóttir and Anna Lísa Rúnarsdóttir, who both work at [...]
The exhibition Faces on Display: Icelanders and others at the Canary Museum opened May 13th 2024 in the National and University Library of Iceland. It is curated by Kristín Loftsdóttir and Anna Lísa Rúnardóttir and bases on the book by the same name published by Sögufélagið at the end of 2023. The texts at the [...]
The article “Fimmtán prósent þjóðarinnar. Frá Íslandi til Kanaríeyja/Fifteen percent of the nation: From Iceland to the Canaries” has been published in Ritið. The article is authored by Kristín Loftsdóttir, and is in Icelandic. The article gives insights into the mobilities of Icelandic people to the Canary Islands, focusing on tourism and residents, asking what makes [...]
"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 [...]
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