Eyrún Eyþórsdottir
Biographic Data
| ID | 263689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eyrún Eyþórsdottir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eyrún |
| FAMILY NAME | Eyþórsdottir |
| SIGNATURE | EYÞÓRSDOTTIR E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Akureyri |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0834-0045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
To protect and serve their own people’: Perceptions of police encounters among racialised male migrants in Iceland
Heritage and hate in Iceland: Speculations about white supremacy, Viking imagery, museums, and care in a changing world
In late 2020, a photo of a policewoman appeared on an established Icelandic news website. The police officer in question is depicted casually reaching for something in the boot of her police vehicle and used as a stock photo for a regular newspaper featuring some of the incidents the police have recently attended. Three patches were exposed on the officer's security vest. Those depicted the Icelandic flag, the Icelandic flag with the Thin Blue Li…
Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic Heritage in Brazilian Identity Making
In this article, we focus on whiteness as an historically shifting phenomenon by analysing Brazilian recent emphasis on Icelandic ancestry, demonstrating the intersection of whiteness, class and ethnicity. A small group of Icelanders were among the millions migrating to Brazil around the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Icelandic migrants did not emphasise their Icelandic identity but affiliated themselves with Germans and other favoure…
Vikings in Brazil: The Iceland Brazil Association shaping Icelandic heritage
The Iceland Brazil Association (AISBRA) was established in 1996 by a group of Brazilians of Icelandic descent, more than 100 years after the first generation of immigrants settled in Brazil in the nineteenth century. The association was the first organisation in Brazil to collectively emphasise and celebrate Icelandic heritage. The association caters to a disparate group of people that had, in many cases, little knowledge about their historical l…
Vikings in Brazil: The Iceland Brazil Association shaping Icelandic heritage
The Iceland Brazil Association (AISBRA) was established in 1996 by a group of Brazilians of Icelandic descent, more than 100 years after the first generation of immigrants settled in Brazil in the nineteenth century. The association was the first organisation in Brazil to collectively emphasise and celebrate Icelandic heritage. The association caters to a disparate group of people that had, in many cases, little knowledge about their historical l…
Heritage and hate in Iceland: Speculations about white supremacy, Viking imagery, museums, and care in a changing world
In late 2020, a photo of a policewoman appeared on an established Icelandic news website. The police officer in question is depicted casually reaching for something in the boot of her police vehicle and used as a stock photo for a regular newspaper featuring some of the incidents the police have recently attended. Three patches were exposed on the officer's security vest. Those depicted the Icelandic flag, the Icelandic flag with the Thin Blue Li…
Vikings in Brazil: The Iceland Brazil Association shaping Icelandic heritage
The Iceland Brazil Association (AISBRA) was established in 1996 by a group of Brazilians of Icelandic descent, more than 100 years after the first generation of immigrants settled in Brazil in the nineteenth century. The association was the first organisation in Brazil to collectively emphasise and celebrate Icelandic heritage. The association caters to a disparate group of people that had, in many cases, little knowledge about their historical l…
Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic Heritage in Brazilian Identity Making
In this article, we focus on whiteness as an historically shifting phenomenon by analysing Brazilian recent emphasis on Icelandic ancestry, demonstrating the intersection of whiteness, class and ethnicity. A small group of Icelanders were among the millions migrating to Brazil around the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Icelandic migrants did not emphasise their Icelandic identity but affiliated themselves with Germans and other favoure…
Heritage and hate in Iceland: Speculations about white supremacy, Viking imagery, museums, and care in a changing world
In late 2020, a photo of a policewoman appeared on an established Icelandic news website. The police officer in question is depicted casually reaching for something in the boot of her police vehicle and used as a stock photo for a regular newspaper featuring some of the incidents the police have recently attended. Three patches were exposed on the officer's security vest. Those depicted the Icelandic flag, the Icelandic flag with the Thin Blue Li…
To protect and serve their own people’: Perceptions of police encounters among racialised male migrants in Iceland
Icelandic (3 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Immigration (2 works)