Útrásarvíkingar

Author : Alaric Hall
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781950192694

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Útrásarvíkingar! by Alaric Hall Pdf

As the global banking boom of the early twenty-first century expanded towards implosion, Icelandic media began calling the country's celebrity financiers útrásarvíkingar: “raiding vikings.” This new coinage encapsulated the macho, medievalist nationalism which underwrote Iceland's exponential financialisation. Yet within a few days in October 2008, Iceland saw all its main banks collapse beneath debts worth nearly ten times the country's GDP.Hall charts how Icelandic novelists and poets grappled with the Crash over the ensuing decade. As the first English-language monograph devoted to twenty-first-century Icelandic literature, it provides Anglophone readers with an introduction to one of the world's liveliest literary scenes. It also contributes a key case study for understanding global artistic responses to the early twenty-first century crisis of runaway, unregulated capitalism, exploring the struggles of writers to adapt realist forms of art to surreal times.As Iceland's biggest crisis since their independence from Denmark in 1944, the effect of the Crash on the national self-image was as seismic as its effects on the economy. This study analyses the centrality of whiteness and the abjection of the “developing world” in Iceland's post-colonial identity, and shows how Crash-writing explores the collisions of Iceland's traditional, nationalist medievalism with a dystopian, Orientalist medievalism associated with the Islamic world.The Crash in Iceland was instantly recognised as offering important economic insights. This book shows how Iceland also helps us to understand the cultural convulsions that have followed the Financial Crisis widely in the West.

Author : Vera Knútsdóttir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Christinna Hazzard
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031538438

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Semi-Peripheral Realism by Christinna Hazzard Pdf

Author : Guðrún D. Whitehead
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351036009

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The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums by Guðrún D. Whitehead Pdf

The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland, British Isles and Norway. Drawing on theories from history, philosophy, museology, and sociology, the book analyses how the Viking myth is used by visitors to make sense of present-day society, culture, and politics and the role of museums in this meaning-making process. Demonstrating that the Viking myth is present in collective memory and plays an important role in the construction and modification of collective, national, and personal identities, the book analyses this process through the framework of museums and their visitors. Identifying museums as places where heritage, identity and social norms are affirmed and reflected upon, Whitehead demonstrates that all countries use their Viking heritage to define their identity on a local and international level - through tourist attractions such as museums and other Viking-related monuments and merchandise. Providing readers with an insight into Vikings and their social relevance today, The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums will be of great interest to academics and researchers across the social and human sciences. It should also be essential reading for museum professionals working in museums around the world.

Author : Sigurd Bergmann,Mika Vähäkangas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000217261

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Contextual Theology by Sigurd Bergmann,Mika Vähäkangas Pdf

This book advances that history by exploring stories, images and discourses across a worldwide range of geographical, cultural and confessional contexts. Its twelve authors not only enrich our understanding of the significance of the contextual method, but also produce a new range of original ways of doing theology in contemporary situations. The authors discuss some prioritised thematic perspectives with an emphasis on liberating paths, and expand the ongoing discussion on the methodology of theology into new areas. Themes such as interreligious plurality, global capitalism, ecumenical liberation theology, eco-anxiety and the anthropocene, postcolonialism, gender, neo-pentecostalism, world theology, and reconciliation are examined in situated depth. Additionally, voices from Indigenous lands, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe and North America enter into a dialogue on what it means to contextualise theology in an increasingly globalised and ever-changing world. Such a comprehensive discussion of new ways of thinking about and doing contextual theology will be of great use to scholars in Theology, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Global Studies.

Author : E. Paul Durrenberger,Gisli Palsson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607323358

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Gambling Debt by E. Paul Durrenberger,Gisli Palsson Pdf

A look at Iceland’s 2008 meltdown from multiple perspectives: “The story is at once shocking and hilarious . . . But also a testament to human resilience.” —Keith Hart, London School of Economics 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. Gambling Debt is a game-changing contribution to the discussion of economic crises and neoliberal financial systems and strategies that touches upon anthropology, sociology, economics, philosophy, political science, business, and ethics. “Honest, entertaining, and informative . . . Explores the changing distribution of wealth and the impact of privatization as well as the historical identity of Iceland and the numerous factors that came together to help produce such an economic meltdown.” —Choice Publication supported in part by the National Science Foundation

Author : Katy Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472512123

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Crunch Lit by Katy Shaw Pdf

The financial crisis of 2008 quickly gave rise to a growing body of fiction: "Crunch Lit". These 'recession writings' take the financial crisis as their central narrative concern and explore its effects on consumer culture, gender roles and contemporary communities. Examining a range of texts including Sebastian Faulks' A Week in December, Adam Haslett's Union Atlantic, and John Lanchester's Capital, this book offers the first wide-ranging guide to these new millennial writings.

Author : Robert W. Murray,Anita Dey Nuttall
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781604978766

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International Relations and the Arctic: Understanding Policy and Governance by Robert W. Murray,Anita Dey Nuttall Pdf

Increased global interest in the Arctic poses challenges to contemporary international relations and many questions surround exactly why and how Arctic countries are asserting their influence and claims over their northern reaches and why and how non-Arctic states are turning their attention to the region. Despite the inescapable reality in the growth of interest in the Arctic, relatively little analysis on the international relations aspects of such interest has been done. Traditionally, international relations studies are focused on particular aspects of Arctic relations, but to date there has been no comprehensive effort to explain the region as a whole. Literature on Arctic politics is mostly dedicated to issues such as development, the environment and climate change, or indigenous populations. International relations, traditionally interested in national and international security, has been mostly silent in its engagement with Arctic politics. Essential concepts such as security, sovereignty, institutions, and norms are all key aspects of what is transpiring in the Arctic, and deserve to be explained in order to better comprehend exactly why the Arctic is of such interest. The sheer number of states and organizations currently involved in Arctic international relations make the region a prime case study for scholars, policymakers and interested observers. In this first systematic study of Arctic international relations, Robert W. Murray and Anita Dey Nuttall have brought together a group of the world's leading experts in Arctic affairs to demonstrate the multifaceted and essential nature of circumpolar politics. This book is core reading for political scientists, historians, anthropologists, geographers and any other observer interested in the politics of the Arctic region.

Author : Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson,David L. Schwarzkopf,Murray Bryant
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787433472

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The Return of Trust? by Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson,David L. Schwarzkopf,Murray Bryant Pdf

This book examines the efforts of major Icelandic economic institutions to regain the public’s trust, 10 years after the financial crisis that ruined personal savings and fostered anger towards business and politics. The studies collected here provide insights into restoring relationships between communities and institutions.

Author : Sumarlidi Isleifsson,Daniel Chartier
Publisher : PUQ
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-20T00:00:00-04:00
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782760530874

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Iceland and Images of the North by Sumarlidi Isleifsson,Daniel Chartier Pdf

With a radically changing world, cultural identity and images have emerged as one of the most challenging issues in the social and cultural sciences. These changes provide an occasion for a thorough reexamination of cultural, historical, political, and economic aspects of society. The INOR (Iceland and Images of the North) group is an interdisciplinary group of Icelandic and non-Icelandic scholars whose recent research on contemporary and historical images of Iceland and the North seeks to analyze the forms these images assume, as well as their function and dynamics. The 21 articles in this book allow readers to seize the variety and complexity of the issues related to images of Iceland.

Author : MEENACHISUNDARAM.M
Publisher : MS SOFTWARE LABORATORIES
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Medical Superstition (in Icelandic Language) by MEENACHISUNDARAM.M Pdf

ÞETTA IS A BÓKMENNTIR VINNA AF FRÖKEN HUGBÚNAÐUR RANNSÓKNARSTÖÐUR. The fyrirtæki skráning vottorð er inn the síðast síðu af þetta bók. The fyrirtæki er a séreign gerð af skipulag skráð af M. Meenachi Sundaram WHO er the höfundur af þetta bók. 10% af bók sölu gildi vilja vera notað fyrir hindúa Musteri Framkvæmdir Ferli. Hver sem er dós endurnotkun þetta bók inn Einhver sniði fyrir Menntun/nám Tilgangur. LÆKNISHÆTJA Læknabókin By M. Meenachi Sundaram FRAMKVÆMD Saga læknisfræðinnar er nátengd þróun guðfræðinnar. Villur annars endurspeglast að mestu í mistökum hins. Sama hversu óljóst og dökkt uppruni hvors tveggja er, hvort sem það er sprottið af fáfræði og hjátrú eða ekki, verður að taka til greina endanlegt afrek eitt og sér. Við höfnum ekki efnafræði vegna þess að hún er upprunnin í gullgerðarlist, við virðum ekki stjörnufræði að vettugi vegna þess að rætur hennar eru samofnar kenningum stjörnuspeki, og svo í guðfræði og læknisfræði horfum við til lokamálsins. Yfirlýsingarnar sem settar eru fram í þessari bók ætti ekki að túlka sem endurspegla þróun guðfræði eða læknisfræði á þeim tíma, heldur sem trú fólksins sem var til á þessum tímum. Heimspeki kann að hafa verið hrein, en ef hugur mannsins var gallaður má ekki leggja ábyrgðina fyrir dyr vísinda. Það er hlutverk sagnfræðingsins að sýna með sanni hugsun og anda þess tíma sem hann skrifar um. Þetta hefur verið reynt í þessari vinnu. Það er ekki gagnrýni á kerfi, heldur gagnrýni á manninn. Það er enginn vafi á því að fáránleg hjátrú er enn til staðar sem tuttugasta öldin mun verða harðlega gagnrýnd fyrir þegar fram líða stundir. Þannig má vel nota orð píslarvotts forseta okkar sem einkunnarorð fyrir þessa bók: "Með illsku í garð engan, með kærleika fyrir alla." Síðasti kafli þessarar bókar hefur verið bætt við af þýðanda, þar sem hann virtist nauðsynlegur fyrir alla umfjöllun um efnið. INNIHALD SÍÐA I. HVAÐ ER læknisfræðileg hjátrú? 1 II. GUÐSMENN Í TENGSLUM SÍNUM VIÐ LÆKNISFYRIR OG Í BARÁTTU SÍNUM VIÐ EÐLIS-VÉLFRÆÐI LÍFIÐ 7 III. TRÚ STUÐNING læknisfræðilegrar hjátrúar 23 IV. Áhrif heimspekinnar á form og uppruna læknisfræðilegrar hjátrúar 89 V. TENGSL NÁTTÚRUVÍSINDA VIÐ LÆKNISHÆTJA 128 VI. ÁHRIF SÉR Á ÞRÓUN Hjátrúar með læknisfræðinni sjálfri 185 VII. HJÁLÆKNISHÆTJA OG GEÐVEIKJA 191 Heimildaskrá 201 MYNDATEXTI SÍÐA CIRCLE OF PETOSIRIS 141 CIRCLE OF PETOSIRIS 143 Lýðræðistafla 145 TENGSL HLUTA MANNSLIKAMANS VIÐ MERKI STJÓRNARVERKINNAR 159 VENESECTION Í STJÖRNUFRÆÐU TENGSLUM SÍNU 175 I HVAÐ ER læknisfræðileg hjátrú? Trú og hjátrú eru tvíburabræður. Þó að hið fyrra leiði mannkynið að háleitustu hugsjónum sínum og hið síðarnefnda sýni okkur aðeins skopmynd af mannlegri þekkingu, eru bæði börn af sömu fjölskyldu. Hvort tveggja er upprunnið í skilningi um ófullnægjandi mannvísinda með tilliti til náttúrufyrirbæra. Sú staðreynd að ekki er hægt að rekja mikilvægustu ferli lífræns lífs til endanlegs uppruna þeirra, heldur að rannsókn þeirra mun brátt leiða til ómótstæðilegrar andstöðu við frekari greiningu, hefur alltaf kallað fram tilfinningu um getuleysi og ósjálfstæði í huga mannsins. . Þessi meðvitund um að vera háð þáttum sem eru algjörlega ofar mannlegum skilningi hefur þannig valdið frumspekilegri þörf á að velta fyrir sér þessum dularfullu þáttum og koma þeim innan seilingar mannlegs skilnings. Með því að reyna að fullnægja slíkri frumspekilegri kröfu út frá siðferðislegu sjónarmiði skapaði mannkynið trú sem síðan kom fram í hinum ýmsu formum trúarbragða. Það er ekki innan ramma þessarar ritgerðar að íhuga hversu langt guðdómlegar opinberanir hafa verið ábyrgðar um þetta efni. Hjátrú kom án efa fram á sjónarsviðið þegar samtímis þessu var reynt að íhuga og útskýra eðlisfræðilega ferla frá sjónarhóli slíkra frumspekilegra krafna. Það er rétt að þetta leiddi í fyrstu ekki til áberandi andstæðu milli trúar og hjátrúar; á tímabili var til þar sem trú og hjátrú - þ.e.a.s. frumspekileg íhugun á siðferðilegum gildum og frumspekileg íhugun á öllum fyrirbærum lífsins - var ekki aðeins jafngild, heldur sameinaðist jafnvel í eina hugmynd. Þetta átti sér stað á tímum þar sem mannkynið taldi öll jarðnesk ferli, hvort sem þau voru af sálrænum eða efnislegum toga, sem strax orsakast af stöðugri truflun yfirnáttúrulegra krafta - tímabil þar sem guðdómurinn var gerður ábyrgur fyrir öllum jarðneskum fyrirbærum . Á þessu tímabili varð trú að hjátrú og hjátrú að trú. Aðskilnaður átti sér ekki stað fyrr en sumir sérstaklega upplýstir hugar fóru að þróa þá hugmynd að það væri eðlilegra að útskýra náttúrufyrirbæri - tímabundna tilveru, tilveru og fráfall - af náttúrulegum fremur en yfirnáttúrulegum orsökum. Viðbrögðin gegn þessari betri túlkun, þrautseigja fylgni við upphaflega tengingu jarðrænna birtingamynda við frumspekilega þætti, skapaði hjátrú náttúruvísindanna. Fæðingu hjátrúar í gríska heiminum verður að vera um sjöundu öld f.Kr., tímabilið þar sem Þales frá Míletos kom fram með viðleitni sína til að útskýra náttúrulega ferla á eðlilegan hátt.

Author : Samuël Kruizinga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350168909

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The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe by Samuël Kruizinga Pdf

Rather than simply assuming that some states are small and others are big, The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe delves deep into the construction of different size-based hierarchies in Europe and explores the way Europeans have thought about their own state's size and that of their continental neighbours since the early 19th century. By positing that ideas about size are intimately connected with both basic discourses about a state's identity and policy discourses about the range of options most appropriate to that state, this multi-contributor volume presents a novel way of thinking about what makes one state, in the eyes of both its own inhabitants and those of others, different from others, and what effects these perceived differences have had, and continue to have, on domestic, European, and global politics. Bringing together an international team of historians and political scientists, this nuanced and sophisticated study examines the connections between shifting ideas about a state's (relative) size, competing notions of national interest and mission, and international policy in modern Europe and beyond.

Author : Kristín Loftsdóttir,Lars Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317157694

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Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond by Kristín Loftsdóttir,Lars Jensen Pdf

With discourses of ’crisis’ and ’disaster’ featuring strongly in contemporary discourses on contemporary society, this book brings together critical perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the idea of ’crisis’ as inherently related to power dynamics and the formation of different subjectivities and identities within the Nordic countries and globally. This volume emphasizes the importance of investigating the interrelationship of three crises - social, economic and environmental - as these address the interlinked surfaces of the same reality, and it examines the negative connotations of the notion of crisis, whilst also raising the question of when and why something becomes identified as crisis, and for whom. With chapters on media representations of crisis and the global context of crisis discourses, the crisis of national identities and their mobilization in response, and environmental crisis, as well as the interrelationship between the social and the environmental and the different positioning of individuals in relation to power, this volume offers an understanding of crisis as a multivocal symbol of the present. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, literature and political science.

Author : Alix Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520396371

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Where Cloud Is Ground by Alix Johnson Pdf

Where Cloud Is Ground offers an ethnography of the international data storage industry and an inquiry into the relationship between data and place. Based in Iceland, which is fast becoming a hot spot for data centers—facilities where large quantities of data are processed and stored—the book traces the fraught work of siting data’s material manifestations in relation to landforms and earth processes, local politics, national narratives, and still-open questions of spatial justice and sovereignty. Doing so, it unsettles techno-utopian ideals of connectivity and offers a window into what it means to live with our data, in a place where more and more data now lives.

Author : William H. Davidow
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781453211106

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Overconnected by William H. Davidow Pdf

DIVIn Overconnected, Bill Davidow, a former Silicon Valley executive, explains how the almost miraculous success of the Internet Web has also created a unique set of hazards, in effect overconnecting us, with the direst of consequences for our political, economic, and day-to-day lives. The practical applications of this new medium—not least among them the ability to borrow money, invest in the stock market, or buy a new home—have made it a force unequaled in scope or impact in our daily lives. But the luxuries of the connected age have taken on a momentum all of their own, ultimately becoming the root cause of the recent financial meltdown from which the world is now still struggling to recover./divDIV /divDIVBy meticulously and counter-intuitively anatomizing how being overconnected tends to create systems of positive feedback that have largely negative consequences, Davidow explains everything from the recent subprime-mortgage crisis to the meltdown of Iceland, from the loss of people’s privacy to the spectacular fall of the stock market that forced the Federal Government to rescue institutions supposedly “too big to fail.” All because we were so miraculously wired together!/divDIV /divDIVExplaining how such symptoms of Internet connection as unforeseeable accidents and thought contagions acted to accelerate the downfall and make us permanently vulnerable to catastrophe, Davidow places our recent experience in historical perspective and offers a set of practical steps to minimize similar disasters in the future./divDIV /divDIVOriginal, commonsensical and historically informed, Overconnected indentifies problems we live with that are now so large, omnipresent and part of our daily lives that few people have even noticed them./div