Publications
Monographs and edited books
Loftsdóttir, Kristín. 2023 (forthcoming) Andlit til sýnis: Íslendingar og Aðrir á Kanarísafninu. Sögufélagið (in Icelandic).
Jensen, Lars and Kristín Loftsdóttir. 2021. Exceptionalism. Routledge.
Articles and book chapters
Fradejas-García, I. & Loftsdóttir, K. (2024, forthcoming). Infrapolitical Mobilities: Precarious Migrants and Resistance to European Rules of Mobility. Focaal, Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology.
Fradejas-García, I. & Loftsdóttir, K. (2024, forthcoming). The Myth of Migration Crisis: Speculation from Above and Below. Third World Quarterly.
Loftsdóttir, K. (2023). Coloniality and Europe at the margins. In The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies (pp. 395-405). Routledge.
Loftsdóttir, K. (2023 forthcoming). “Three Days from Civilisation“: Scientific Imagination and Nineteenth Century Iceland. In: Margins of Empire. Toivanen M. & Schaer B. (eds). Bloomsbury.
Loftsdóttir, (2024, forthcoming) Intervening in the Present through Fictions of the Future. In J. L. Hennessay (ed.) History and Speculative Fiction. Springer.
Loftsdóttir, K. Hipfl, B. & Ponzanesi, S. (2023) Introduction. In Loftsdóttir, K., Hipfl, B., & Ponzanesi, S. (eds.). Creating Europe from the Margins: Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe. Taylor & Francis.
Loftsdóttir, K. (2022). Marketing Marginality: Creating Iceland as a White Privileged Destination. In Creating Europe from the Margins (pp. 140-156). Routledge.
Loftsdóttir, K. (2022). Claims of White Innocence. Multiculturalism and Exceptionalism in the Nordic Countries(Reclamos de inocencia blanca: multiculturalismo y excepcionalismo en los países nórdicos) Procesos históricos: revista de historia, arte y ciencias sociales, (41), 201-216.
Book Reviews
Loftsdóttir, K. (2022). A field guide to white supremacy: edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez. Book Review. Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Conference presentations
Kristín Loftsdóttir and Sanna Mörtudóttir. Where Are You From? Racism and Normalization of Whiteness in Iceland. Racialization in the Nordic Region. International online seminar. Norwegian Social Research, 3 November 2022.
Kristín Loftsdóttir. Intervention from Iceland. Presentation at the panel discussion What is Nordic Colonialism and Why does it matter today? September 22, 2022.
Kristín Loftsdóttir. Bustos de yeso de Islandia en El Museo Canario. International Conference Coloquio de Historia Canario Americana, Casa de Colón, Las Palmas, October 5th, 2022.
Kristín Loftsdóttir. Being Exceptional or Not – Coloniality in Iceland and the Nordic Region. Opening Lecture at the workshop Can We Talk? 28. August,2022. Gerðasafn – Listasafn Kópavogs.
Kristín Loftsdóttir and Ignacio Fradejas-Garcia. The Mobility Experts: Circumnavigating Mobility Rules in the Atlantic Migration Route to Europe. The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) hosted the 17th EASA Biennial Conference from 26 to 29 July 2022 in Belfast, United Kingdom
Kristín Loftsdóttir. Specimens for Science: Imperialism and Scientific Imagination of 19th Century Iceland. Nordic Colonial Durabilities and Legacies workshop. Safnahúsið, University of Iceland May 24–25, 2022.
„Það hefur verið þarna 1.5.% þjóðarinnar“: Þverþjóðleiki Kanaríeyja og íslenskir ferðalangar. Samfélag og Náttura, Ráðstefna um íslenska þjóðfélagsfræði, University Center Vestfjarðar, 13-14 maí, 2022.
Ignacio Fradejas-García and Kristín Loftsdóttir. Precarious and Forced (Im)Mobilities in the Canarian Migration Route to the EU. In the panel, Forced migration, precariousness and knowledge regimes at the IUAES conference, November 11th, 2021, Yucatán, Mexico. https://www.iuaes2021yucatan.org/accepted-panels-and-papers/
Co-organizer and conveyer of the Roundtable (with Bobby Luthra Sinha, Senior Research Officer – Projects,(OLE –Delhi, India), Vinicius Kauê Ferreira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Sophia Thubauville, Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology), Im/Mobility in times of COVID-19 at the IUAES conference, November 10th, 2021, Yucatán, Mexico. https://www.iuaes2021yucatan.org/accepted-panels-and-papers/
Kristín Loftsdóttir. Becoming the Racial Type: Europe’s Imperial Past and Racialized Bodies in the Present, International Conference of Europeanists, The Council for European Studies. June 21-25, 2021.
Kristín Loftsdóttir. Racism and Racialization in Iceland. International Conference of Europeanists, The Council for European Studies, June 21-25, 2021
Kristín Loftsdóttir. Iceland, The Little Country that Could: Creating Exceptional Places in a Multi-folding Crisis, International Conference of Europeanists, The Council for European Studies, June 21-25, 2021
Kristín Loftsdóttir. Opening words: Researching Nordic Colonialism – Past, Present Futures. International conference funded by NOS-HS. Organizer with Dr Janne Lahti et al., University of Helsinki, May 24-25, 2021
Kristín Loftsdóttir Racialized “Bodies” on the Move: Plaster Bust Collections as Contact Points International workshop “Re-examining Empires from the Margins: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe’ Munich Centre for Global History, 22–23 October 2021 https://www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Re-examining-Empires-from-the-Margins_Version-4.pdf
Ignacio Fradejas-García and Kristín Loftsdóttir. Infrapolitical resistances of immigrants to the EU regimes of mobility. International society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), 2021, june 22, 2021, https://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2021/panels#10589
Kristín Loftsdóttir. Keynote presentation. Up-Side-Down Narratives and the Cancellation of the Future. International Conference Inclusion, Migration, and Education for Citizenship. University of Akureyri, Iceland March 25–26, 2021.
Sigrún Valsdóttir and Kristin Loftsdóttir. Investing in the Future: Post-Crisis Migration Between Spain and Iceland. Coming of Age on Earth: legacies and Next Generation Anthropology, March 9-14, 2021. IUAES Congress 2020. https://iuaes2020.conventuscredo.hr/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/final-program-13.3.pdf
