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This thesis is an anthropological study of kinship among residents in Reykjavík, Iceland, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Through ethnographic research with families and citizens’ collectives, kinship is explored as the cultures of relatedness developed in response to an economic cr...
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ftdatacite:10.26190/unsworks/1631 2024-02-27T08:41:52+00:00 Crisis and its aftermath in Iceland: Kinship as recovery after economic collapse ... Heffernan, Timothy 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/1631 http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/100031 en eng UNSW Sydney Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 Crisis Recovery Kinship Economic Crisis Iceland Southern theory Europe 440107 Social and cultural anthropology doctoral thesis Dissertation thesis Thesis 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/1631 2024-02-01T15:54:13Z This thesis is an anthropological study of kinship among residents in Reykjavík, Iceland, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Through ethnographic research with families and citizens’ collectives, kinship is explored as the cultures of relatedness developed in response to an economic crisis that turned into a political one. I argue that kin bonds provide affective support to recast the moral landscape after the economic collapse and revelations of corruption among politicians. The backdrop to this thesis is the effect of the crisis on culturally sanctioned ideas about accepted behaviours for the benefit of present and future kin. This is traced through debates over legislating a new constitution drafted after the crisis. While a distinction is often made between the domains of politics and kinship, this thesis engages recent anthropological literature on collective action and protest against the nation-state to illustrate the political utility of affective support and social intimacy among kin ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Iceland Reykjavík Reykjavík DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Reykjavík |
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This thesis is an anthropological study of kinship among residents in Reykjavík, Iceland, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Through ethnographic research with families and citizens’ collectives, kinship is explored as the cultures of relatedness developed in response to an economic crisis that turned into a political one. I argue that kin bonds provide affective support to recast the moral landscape after the economic collapse and revelations of corruption among politicians. The backdrop to this thesis is the effect of the crisis on culturally sanctioned ideas about accepted behaviours for the benefit of present and future kin. This is traced through debates over legislating a new constitution drafted after the crisis. While a distinction is often made between the domains of politics and kinship, this thesis engages recent anthropological literature on collective action and protest against the nation-state to illustrate the political utility of affective support and social intimacy among kin ... |
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