Iceland, rejected by McDonald's: desire and anxieties in a global crisis

Iceland’s increased involvement in global economic markets in the early 2000s came to a sudden halt in autumn 2008 when Iceland became at the time the worst case of the global financial crisis. The discussion focuses on anxieties in relation to the aftermath and how they reflect internal Icelandic d...

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Published in:Social Anthropology
Main Author: Loftsdóttir, Kristín
Other Authors: Félagsfræði-, mannfræði- og þjóðfræðideild (HÍ), Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics (UI), Félagsvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Social Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014
Subjects:
Sociology and Political Science
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Anthropology
Crisis
globalization
postcolonial
Iceland
Bankahrunið 2008
Alþjóðaviðskipti
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2729
https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12079
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Summary:Iceland’s increased involvement in global economic markets in the early 2000s came to a sudden halt in autumn 2008 when Iceland became at the time the worst case of the global financial crisis. The discussion focuses on anxieties in relation to the aftermath and how they reflect internal Icelandic discussions that are entangled with Iceland’s past as a Danish dependency. The closing of McDonald’s restaurants in a year after the crash is a vivid example of anxieties in regard to Iceland’s global circumstances, simultaneously reflecting persistent geopolitical order of an unequal world. The research on which this article is based was funded by the University of Iceland Re search Fund and Rannís - The Icelandic Center for Research (grant number 130426-052) Peer Reviewed

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