Abstract
This article focuses on desires, fears and identities as entangled in the past. Emphasizing gendered aspects of mobility, the author takes as examples debates relating to Icelandic Muslims and discussions in regard to Iceland's increased international involvements in global peacekeeping. She sees them sharing entanglements with the nationalistic ideologies of Europeans as carrier of justice and equality, as well as a collective forgetting of past histories that foreground and position people in relation to migrations and encounters in the present. In these cases, gender is tightly interwoven with the tapestry of meaning, foregrounding, explaining and informing the relationships involved.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 41-54 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | European Journal of Women's Studies |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information: The project Icelandic Identity in Crisis is supported by the University of Iceland Research Fund. The project Respect and Prejudice in Iceland is funded by the Developmental Fund for Immigrant Matters, run by the Ministry of Social Affairs.Other keywords
- Eurocentrism
- Gender
- Muslims
- Nationalism
- Peacekeeping
- Postcolonial theory
- Racism