From Resurrection and New Dawn to the Pirate Party : political party names as symbolizing recent transformations in the political field in Iceland
2008 saw the beginning of a massive financial crisis in Iceland, marked by the collapse of the banking system, the failure of state pension funds, and months of political upheaval. Angry and bewildered Icelanders, newly aware that their image of themselves as exceptional and egalitarian new age Viki...
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ftunivwestsyd:oai:researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au:uws_49842 2023-05-15T16:42:17+02:00 From Resurrection and New Dawn to the Pirate Party : political party names as symbolizing recent transformations in the political field in Iceland Hawkins, Mary (R7793) Onnudottir, Helena (R14906) School of Social Sciences and Psychology (Host institution) 2018 print 16 https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2018.1537619 http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:49842 eng eng U.K., Routledge Politics, Religion and Ideology--2156-7689--2156-7697 Vol. 19 Issue. 4 No. pp: 546-561 160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropology 940203 - Political Systems political parties nationalism financial crises symbolism Iceland journal article 2018 ftunivwestsyd https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2018.1537619 2020-12-05T18:18:17Z 2008 saw the beginning of a massive financial crisis in Iceland, marked by the collapse of the banking system, the failure of state pension funds, and months of political upheaval. Angry and bewildered Icelanders, newly aware that their image of themselves as exceptional and egalitarian new age Vikings was hollow, and that the pre-crash rhetoric of ‘prosperity for all’ had only ever been ‘prosperity for the very few’, sought to reconfigure the political field. New parties, with new names that signified a very different conceptualization of Iceland and Icelanders, emerged. In this paper we examine the move in Iceland from a handful of parties which drew on a common symbolization of Iceland as a classless society rooted in land and shared history, to the contemporary plethora of parties which promise, for example, a ‘bright future’, or style themselves as ‘pirates’ who will re-start Iceland. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of Western Sydney (UWS): Research Direct Politics, Religion & Ideology 19 4 546 561 |
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2008 saw the beginning of a massive financial crisis in Iceland, marked by the collapse of the banking system, the failure of state pension funds, and months of political upheaval. Angry and bewildered Icelanders, newly aware that their image of themselves as exceptional and egalitarian new age Vikings was hollow, and that the pre-crash rhetoric of ‘prosperity for all’ had only ever been ‘prosperity for the very few’, sought to reconfigure the political field. New parties, with new names that signified a very different conceptualization of Iceland and Icelanders, emerged. In this paper we examine the move in Iceland from a handful of parties which drew on a common symbolization of Iceland as a classless society rooted in land and shared history, to the contemporary plethora of parties which promise, for example, a ‘bright future’, or style themselves as ‘pirates’ who will re-start Iceland. |
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From Resurrection and New Dawn to the Pirate Party : political party names as symbolizing recent transformations in the political field in Iceland |
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From Resurrection and New Dawn to the Pirate Party : political party names as symbolizing recent transformations in the political field in Iceland |
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From Resurrection and New Dawn to the Pirate Party : political party names as symbolizing recent transformations in the political field in Iceland |
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From Resurrection and New Dawn to the Pirate Party : political party names as symbolizing recent transformations in the political field in Iceland |
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From Resurrection and New Dawn to the Pirate Party : political party names as symbolizing recent transformations in the political field in Iceland |
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from resurrection and new dawn to the pirate party : political party names as symbolizing recent transformations in the political field in iceland |
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https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2018.1537619 http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:49842 |
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