Spectral Memories Of Post Crash Iceland

Author : Vera Knútsdóttir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004685512

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Spectral Memories of Post-crash Iceland by Vera Knútsdóttir Pdf

How does the spectre appear in Icelandic literature and visual art created in the aftermath of the economic crash in Iceland in 2008? Why does it emerge at that specific point in time and what can it tell us about repressed collective memories in Iceland? The book explores how the crash becomes an implicit background setting in novels that address the silences and gaps of the family archive, and how crime fiction employs generic features of horror to explicitly tackle the ghosts residing in the lost homes of the financial crash. Spectral space is an apparent theme of cultural memories produced in times of crisis, and the book explores how this is made apparent in visual art of the period.

Author : E. Paul Durrenberger,Gisli Palsson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781457188497

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Gambling Debt by E. Paul Durrenberger,Gisli Palsson Pdf

Gambling Debt is a game-changing contribution to the discussion of economic crises and neoliberal financial systems and strategies. Iceland’s 2008 financial collapse was the first case in a series of meltdowns, a warning of danger in the global order. This full-scale anthropology of financialization and the economic crisis broadly discusses this momentous bubble and burst and places it in theoretical, anthropological, and global historical context through descriptions of the complex developments leading to it and the larger social and cultural implications and consequences. Chapters from anthropologists, sociologists, historians, economists, and key local participants focus on the neoliberal policies—mainly the privatization of banks and fishery resources—that concentrated wealth among a select few, skewed the distribution of capital in a way that Iceland had never experienced before, and plunged the country into a full-scale economic crisis. Gambling Debt significantly raises the level of understanding and debate on the issues relevant to financial crises, painting a portrait of the meltdown from many points of view—from bankers to schoolchildren, from fishers in coastal villages to the urban poor and immigrants, and from artists to philosophers and other intellectuals. This book is for anyone interested in financial troubles and neoliberal politics as well as students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, economics, philosophy, political science, business, and ethics. Publication supported in part by the National Science Foundation.

Author : Clive Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0993012930

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Sinclair ZX Spectrum: A Visual Compendium by Clive Sinclair Pdf

Author : Marjorie Peden
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781437904062

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World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention by Marjorie Peden Pdf

Every day thousands of people are killed and injured on our roads. Millions of people each year will spend long weeks in the hospital after severe crashes and many will never be able to live, work or play as they used to do. Current efforts to address road safety are minimal in comparison to this growing human suffering. This report presents a comprehensive overview of what is known about the magnitude, risk factors and impact of road traffic injuries, and about ways to prevent and lessen the impact of road crashes. Over 100 experts, from all continents and different sectors -- including transport, engineering, health, police, education and civil society -- have worked to produce the report. Charts and tables.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Audiotapes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011421273

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Schwann Spectrum by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Sun,Jim Stewart,David Pollard
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857244567

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Reframing Corporate Social Responsibility by William Sun,Jim Stewart,David Pollard Pdf

This collection brings together leading scholarly thinking to understand why CSR failed to prevent the global financial crisis, how corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) contributed to the financial crisis, and how we may reframe CSR or improve CSR frameworks to help prevent or mitigate any future financial and economic crises.

Author : Philip Graham,Shirley Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107689855

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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children and Families by Philip Graham,Shirley Reynolds Pdf

Comprehensive, authoritative coverage of the cognitive behaviour therapy interventions for all conditions seen in children and adolescents.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : MINN:30000011060435

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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101517772

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The Keillor Reader by Garrison Keillor Pdf

Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done—a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker and The Atlantic, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, The Keillor Reader also presents pieces never before published, including the essays “Cheerfulness” and “What We Have Learned So Far.” Keillor is the founder and host of A Prairie Home Companion, celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2014. He is the author of nineteen books of fiction and humor, the editor of the Good Poems collections, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Author : Valur Ingimundarson,Philippe Urfalino,Irma Erlingsdóttir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317209737

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Iceland's Financial Crisis by Valur Ingimundarson,Philippe Urfalino,Irma Erlingsdóttir Pdf

Being the first casualty of the international financial crisis, Iceland was, in many ways, turned into a laboratory when it came to responding to one of the largest corporate failures on record. This edited volume offers the most wide-ranging treatment of the Icelandic financial crisis and its political, economic, social, and constitutional consequences. Interdisciplinary, with contributions from historians, economists, sociologists, legal scholars, political scientists and philosophers, it also compares and contrasts the Icelandic experience with other national and global crises. It examines the economic magnitude of the crisis, the social and political responses, and the unique transitional justice mechanisms used to deal with it. It looks at backward-looking elements, including a societal and legal reckoning – which included the indictment of a Prime Minister and jailing of leading bankers for their part in the financial crisis – and forward-looking features, such as an attempt to rewrite the Icelandic constitution. Throughout, it underscores the contemporary relevance of the Icelandic case. While the Icelandic economic recovery has been much quicker than expected; it shows that public faith in political elites has not been restored. This text will be of key interest to scholars, policy-makers and students of the financial crisis in such fields as European politics, international political economy, comparative politics, sociology, economics, contemporary history, and more broadly the social sciences and humanities.

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 019974369X

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Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer Pdf

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345808608

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The Circle by Dave Eggers Pdf

LONGLISTED 2015 – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, bestselling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

Author : R. Scott Sheffield,Noah Riseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424639

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Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War by R. Scott Sheffield,Noah Riseman Pdf

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

Author : Colin Mason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136555114

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The 2030 Spike by Colin Mason Pdf

The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.

Author : Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466840669

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I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Pdf

International superstar Yrsa Sigurdardottir has captivated the attention of readers around the world with her mystery series featuring attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir. Now, Yrsa will stun readers once again with this out-of-this-world ghost story that will leave you shivering. In an isolated village in the Icelandic Westfjords, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house. But soon, they realize they are not as alone as they thought. Something wants them to leave, and it's making its presence felt. Meanwhile, in a town across the fjord, a young doctor investigating the suicide of an elderly woman discovers that she was obsessed with his vanished son. When the two stories collide, the terrifying truth is uncovered. In the vein of John Ajvide Lindqvist, this horrifying thriller, partly based on a true story, is the scariest novel yet from Yrsa Sigurdardottir, who has taken the international crime fiction world by storm. The film rights have been sold to Sigurjon Sighvatsson, a Hollywood-based Icelandic film producer who has produced such films as Brothers and Arlington Road.