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Examples include research on racism, colonialism, whiteness, precarious migrants, crisis, and nationalism. Krist\u00edn has also conducted research relating to the tourism industry, development cooperation and masculinity. Krist\u00edn has done research in Europe (Iceland, Belgium, and Italy), as well as West Africa (Niger). Krist\u00edn’s writings have also appeared in many scholarly journals and chapters in books. Krist\u00edn has written three monographs and two novels and edited six books with others.[1][2]Table of ContentsEducation[edit]Professional experience[edit]Works of fiction[edit]Exhibitions[edit]Research[edit]Private life[edit]Main works[edit]References[edit]Education[edit]Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir was born in 1968 in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. She completed her matriculation examination from Flensborgarsk\u00f3li in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in 1989 and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Iceland in 1992. She went to graduate school abroad and graduated with a master’s from the  University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, in 1994, and then completed a doctorate at the same university in 2000. Her doctoral research revolved around global changes in the lives of pastoralists and migrant workers. She did her project in Niger, where she lived for two years while gathering data during the research. The title of her dissertation is \u201cThe Bush is Sweet: Identity and Desire among WoDaaBe in Niger.\u201d[2]  Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir in Niger in 1997Professional experience[edit]Krist\u00edn has been engaged in various international collaborations and participated in and directed international projects. Krist\u00edn, for example, was project manager of Icelandic Identity in Crisis (supported by The Icelandic Centre for Research). She was also one of three project managers of the top project Mobility and Transnational Iceland (supported by The Icelandic Centre for Research). She was one of two managers of the associative projects \u201cCrisis and Nordic Identity\u201d and \u201cDecoding the Nordic Colonial Mind\u201d that NOS-HS supported. She was a member of the HERA project Arctic Encounters, 2013\u20132015.[2]Krist\u00edn has been a guest teacher at the University of Graz, Lafayette College, Roskilde University, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has also taught the summer school “Noise” at Utrecht University. In 2014, the University of Iceland recognised Krist\u00edn for her academic work. Her book The Woman Who Got a Spear in Her Head (Konan sem f\u00e9kk spj\u00f3t \u00ed h\u00f6fu\u00f0i\u00f0) discusses research procedure in anthropology in an accessible manner. It won the Women’s Literary Prize 2011[3] and was nominated for a Hag\u00feenkir Award in 2010[4] as well as the DV Prize 2010.Works of fiction[edit]Krist\u00edn won the Icelandic Children’s Book Prize in 1988 for Bird in a Cage (Fugl \u00ed b\u00fari). Her book Time’s Footstep (F\u00f3tatak t\u00edmans)[5] was published by Vaka Helgafell in 1990. The same year it was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize.[6]Exhibitions[edit]Krist\u00edn is one of the authors (along with Unnur D\u00eds Skaptad\u00f3ttir) of the exhibition Iceland in the World and the World in Iceland, 2016\u20132017. The exhibition was part of Krist\u00edn’s research project Icelandic Identity in the Crisis, supported by the Research Fund of the University of Iceland and The Icelandic Centre for Research. The exhibition’s main goal was to shed light on transnationalism as a part of both Iceland’s history and present and to highlight how Icelanders have for centuries been part of history’s racial prejudices in Europe. The exhibition was done in collaboration with other scholars at the University of Iceland and in collaboration with Iceland’s National Museum. The exhibition’s emphasis on racism built on Krist\u00edn’s research on the republication of the book Negroboys.[7]Krist\u00edn also set up the exhibition “The cow’s horns do not weigh it down: Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir\u2019s Ethnographic Research amongst WoDaaBe Pastoralists in Niger.” The exhibition was in Hafnarborg, Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur’s Centre of Culture and Fine Art.[8][9] The exhibition ran from 4 March to 12 April 2001. It was then set up in the National and University Library of Iceland.[10] The exhibition’s name is from a proverb of the WoDaaBe people. It points out that just as the cow does not notice its horns, we do not notice what we are used to.Research[edit]Krist\u00edn’s research in Iceland has underscored the importance of considering the present in the context of the history of racial prejudices, and how they are recreated in the present. Her research has through the lens of anthropology and post-colonialism brought up critical questions about racism in Europe \u2013 particularly in Iceland and other Nordic countries. It has pointed out as well the importance of analysing “whiteness” in this context. Krist\u00edn’s research has also critically examined the concept and idea of “Europe” \u2013 both the hierarchy of European nations and issues related to the exclusion of certain groups from the Continent.[1]Krist\u00edn’s research on the Icelandic economic collapse emphasises the moulding of national self-images in an inter connected world, as well as how the collapse reawakened old questions about being a nation among nations.[11] In addition, Krist\u00edn has posed critical questions on the meaning of being a European that come up in relation to Iceland’s economic expansion and the collapse. Krist\u00edn’s articles on this topic have discussed symbolic significance of the opening and closing the McDonald’s fast-food chain in Iceland;[12] the Icesave dispute as a crisis of national self-image in Iceland, and national ideas about the business Vikings.[13]Krist\u00edn’s research in this field has been conducted within larger and smaller projects. Krist\u00edn did the research project “Images of Africa in Iceland”. It examined historical manifestations of Africa and racial ideas in Iceland. Krist\u00edn also researched the republication of the book Negroboys in 2007.[14][15] Krist\u00edn has researched Lithuanians’ experience in Iceland in the years during the economic crisis. She showed that Lithuanians encountered extensive prejudice in Iceland. Recently, Krist\u00edn has critically examined images of the tourism industry in relation to ideas of Nordic exceptionalism, and of purity and whiteness.[16][17]Krist\u00edn’s research on prejudices has overlapped her projects focusing on refugees and her writings related to them. She has discussed the refugees’ “crisis”[18][19] and worked on research revolving around precarious migrants (including refugees and asylum seekers) from Niger.[20] The research examines the reasons that refugees from Niger go to Europe. It points out as well the difference in assistance provided to different groups, depending on their historical ties with Europe.[21]Private life[edit]Krist\u00edn’s parents are Loftur Magn\u00fasson (1945) and Erla Gu\u00f0laug Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir (1947). She is married to M\u00e1r Wolfgang Mixa, lector at Reykjav\u00edk University. They have three children.[22]Main works[edit]References[edit]^ a b Google Scholar. Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir^ a b c Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir. Professor in Anthropology. Published work^ Mi\u00f0st\u00f6\u00f0 \u00edslenskra b\u00f3kmennta. (2011). Tilnefningar til Fj\u00f6ruver\u00f0launanna kynntar. Retrieved February 13, 2020.^ Hag\u00feenkir. F\u00e9lag h\u00f6funda fr\u00e6\u00f0irita og kennslugagna. (2011). Tilnefnd til vi\u00f0urkenningar Hag\u00feenkis 2010. Retrieved February 13, 2020.^ Morgunbla\u00f0i\u00f0. (December 15, 1990). Krist\u00ednar tv\u00e6r og \u00f6nnur Lavransd\u00f3ttir. Retrieved February 13, 2020.^ Morgunbla\u00f0i\u00f0. (December 11, 1990). \u00cdslensku b\u00f3kmenntaver\u00f0launin 1990: Fimmt\u00e1n b\u00e6kur eru tilnefndar. Retrieved February 13, 2020.^ H\u00e1sk\u00f3li \u00cdslands. (2016). S\u00fdningin \u00cdsland \u00ed heiminum og heimurinn \u00ed \u00cdslandi opnu\u00f0. Retrieved February 13, 2020.^ Morgunbla\u00f0i\u00f0. (March 4, 2000). Hornin \u00ed\u00feyngja ekki k\u00fanni. Lesb\u00f3k Morgunbla\u00f0sins. Retrieved February 13, 2020.^ Dagbla\u00f0i\u00f0 V\u00edsir – DV. (October 3, 2001). Hornin \u00ed\u00feyngja ekki k\u00fanni: Hugmyndin um framandleika. Retrieved February 13, 2020.^ mbl.is. (September 28, 2001). Lj\u00f3smyndir mannfr\u00e6\u00f0ings \u00ed \u00dej\u00f3\u00f0arb\u00f3khl\u00f6\u00f0u. Retrieved February 13, 2020.^ Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir. (2019). Crisis and Coloniality at Europe\u2018s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland. Routledge.^ Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir. (2014). Iceland, rejected by McDonald\u2019s: desire and anxieties in a global crisis. Social Anthropology, 22(3): 340-353.^ Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir. (2015). \u201cThe Danes Don\u2019t Get This\u201d: The Economic Crash and Icelandic Postcolonial Engagements. National Identities.^ mbl.is. (March 21, 2012). Kyn\u00fe\u00e1ttahyggja \u00ed Negrastr\u00e1kunum. Retrieved February 13, 2020.^ Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir. (2013). Republishing \u2018The Ten Little Negros\u2019: Exploring nationalism and \u2018whiteness\u2019 in Iceland. Ethnicities, 13(3), 295\u2013315.^ Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir. (2015). The Exotic North: Gender, Nationbranding and Nationalism in Iceland. Nora \u2013 Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 23(4): 246-260.^ Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir. (2019) Crisis and Coloniality at Europe\u2018s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland. Routledge.^ Sunna Krist\u00edn Hilmarsd\u00f3ttir. (2015, November 25). Spyr hvort sam\u00fa\u00f0 \u00cdslendinga v\u00e6ri svipu\u00f0 ef um svart fl\u00f3ttaf\u00f3lk v\u00e6ri a\u00f0 r\u00e6\u00f0a. visir.is. Retrieved February 13, 2020.^ Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir. (2018). \u201e\u00c9g elti au\u00f0inn til Evr\u00f3pu\u201c: S\u00f6gur af f\u00f3lki \u00e1 fl\u00f3tta, innflytjendum og ,,\u00f3l\u00f6glegum\u201c einstaklingum. Riti\u00f0, 18(2): 159-184.^ Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir. (2017). \u2018Europe is finished\u2019: migrants\u2019 lives in Europe\u2019s capital at times of crisis. Social Identities.^ Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir 2016. Global citizens, exotic others, and unwanted migrants: mobilities in and of Europe. Identities, 1-18.^ Dagbla\u00f0i\u00f0 V\u00edsir – DV. (October 28, 2008). Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir. P\u00f3fessor \u00ed mannfr\u00e6\u00f0i vi\u00f0 H\u00cd. 40 \u00e1ra \u00ed dag. Retrieved February 13, 2020.  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/kristin-loftsdottir-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir – Wikipedia"}}]}]