Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of figures
• Introduction
• Part I Before the crash
• 1 The trickster in the north: in the world of colonizers and colonized
• 2 The Colonial Exhibition in Tivoli: racism and colonial others
• 3 The desire to become modern: forging of the Icelandic subject
• 4 The big bite: the economic miracle in Iceland
• 5 Warehouse of cultural scenarios: creating the new Icelandic character
• 6 Probably the best in the world? engaging with Iceland’s colonial past
• Part II After the crash
• 7 The fall from the top of the world: the economic crash in 2008
• 8 Even McDonald’s has left us: the hierarchies of nations
• 9 The iceberg drifting in the sea: creating a sense of national identity during times of crisis
• 10 The exceptional island in a world of crisis: reimaging iceland as exceptional
• 11 All’s well that ends well: the aftermath of the crash
• References
• Index