Már Wolfgang Mixa
Biographic Data
| ID | 79832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Már Wolfgang Mixa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Már Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Mixa |
| SIGNATURE | MIXA M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iceland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9750-1463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hyperreal Paradise Lost and Rebuilt: Hurricane Destruction, Speculative Luxury, and Real Estate Development in Sint Maarten
This article examines the luxury real estate market of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of marketing materials and real estate data, the study shows how luxury narratives and hurricane cycles operate as a single system of value production. Luxury real estate marketers have turned the cycles of destruction by hurricanes, in conjunction with a weak regulatory framework, into an asset. Drawing upon Baudrill…
Housing under platform capitalism: The contentious regulation of short-term rentals in European cities
Paradoxical Luxury in the Sint Maarten’s Property Market
People need housing to live in: Precarity and the Rental Market During Tourism Gentrification
Numerous studies from the twenty first century underscore how housing challenges have increased in Western countries. This article focuses on the dynamics of renting, showing how housing precarity today is increasingly shaped by transnational mobilities, intersecting with localized policymaking. While these studies have mainly centred on Southern Europe, this article focuses on Iceland, representing a Northern European country. Our analysis shows…
Nations of bankers and Brexiteers? Nationalism and hidden money
This article examines the relationship between nationalistic mobilisations, hidden funds and undisclosed campaign contributions, commonly known as dark money. Contextualising Brexit alongside the Icelandic economic crash of 2008 shows how nationalist mobilisation and racism can secure economic and political interests for a small minority and thus create space for what Zygmunt Bauman has called ‘evasion’ or ‘slippage’ as a primary technique of pow…
People need housing to live in: Precarity and the Rental Market During Tourism Gentrification
Numerous studies from the twenty first century underscore how housing challenges have increased in Western countries. This article focuses on the dynamics of renting, showing how housing precarity today is increasingly shaped by transnational mobilities, intersecting with localized policymaking. While these studies have mainly centred on Southern Europe, this article focuses on Iceland, representing a Northern European country. Our analysis shows…
Nations of bankers and Brexiteers? Nationalism and hidden money
This article examines the relationship between nationalistic mobilisations, hidden funds and undisclosed campaign contributions, commonly known as dark money. Contextualising Brexit alongside the Icelandic economic crash of 2008 shows how nationalist mobilisation and racism can secure economic and political interests for a small minority and thus create space for what Zygmunt Bauman has called ‘evasion’ or ‘slippage’ as a primary technique of pow…
Paradoxical Luxury in the Sint Maarten’s Property Market
People need housing to live in: Precarity and the Rental Market During Tourism Gentrification
Numerous studies from the twenty first century underscore how housing challenges have increased in Western countries. This article focuses on the dynamics of renting, showing how housing precarity today is increasingly shaped by transnational mobilities, intersecting with localized policymaking. While these studies have mainly centred on Southern Europe, this article focuses on Iceland, representing a Northern European country. Our analysis shows…
Housing under platform capitalism: The contentious regulation of short-term rentals in European cities
Hyperreal Paradise Lost and Rebuilt: Hurricane Destruction, Speculative Luxury, and Real Estate Development in Sint Maarten
This article examines the luxury real estate market of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of marketing materials and real estate data, the study shows how luxury narratives and hurricane cycles operate as a single system of value production. Luxury real estate marketers have turned the cycles of destruction by hurricanes, in conjunction with a weak regulatory framework, into an asset. Drawing upon Baudrill…
Economics (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Political science (2 works) · Rental housing (2 works) · Renting (2 works) · Sharing Economy and Platforms (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Accommodation (1 works) · Brexit (1 works) · Business (1 works)