Iceland, rejected by McDonald's: Desire and anxieties in a global crisis

Social Anthropology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 340-353

  Loftsdóttir, Kristín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Crisis; Globalisation; Iceland; Identity; Postcolonial

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906515378     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12079     Document Type: Article

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