This paper explores the growth of tourism in Iceland and sets current policy discourses in the
context of the global credit crunch of 2008. Tourism in Iceland has grown from being …

Although the triggering effect of economic crises on revolt is a classic sociological topic,
crises have until recently mostly triggered large-scale collective action in developing …

The recent wave of protest associated with the global financial crisis provides opportunity to
examine the link between economic crisis and collective action in the context of affluent …

Welfare and the Great Recession surveys and analyses welfare consequences in the period
following the financial crisis in Europe. It investigates how the burdens of the recession were …

Iceland's increased involvement in global economic markets in the early 2000s came to a
sudden halt in 2008, when the economic crisis hit Iceland severely. I focus on how this crisis …

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 …

In this article, I address how mothers' public discourse about their children has changed over
time by analysing 130 interviews with mothers published in Icelandic magazines and …

Scholars have for some time emphasised destabilising the boundaries between colonised
and colonisers, in addition to calling for more nuanced analyses of colonialism. I focus here …

This chapter maps the political economy characteristics of Icelandic society in the post-war
period. It shows how the period of statism from the early part of the 20th century, with a …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to study class awareness in Iceland in the wake of a
national economic collapse. Design/methodology/approach–This comparatively oriented …