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 [...]
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 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”, [...]
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