Island in the storm: Iceland and the financial crisis of 2008

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  • Alix Johnson University of California, Santa Cruz

Abstract

Book review of Gambling Debt: Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy. E. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson, eds. 2015. University Press of Colorado.

Author Biography

Alix Johnson, University of California, Santa Cruz

Alix Johnson is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research examines information infrastructures in Iceland as a lens on national practices, postcolonial politics, and ideals of remoteness and connectivity.

References

Aliber, Robert. 2011. Introduction in R. Aliber and G. Zoega, eds. Preludes to the Icelandic Financial Crisis. London: Palgrave MacMillian.

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2017-05-14

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