ABSTRACT
The end date of the period under scrutiny in this chapter, 2017, might be seen as a turning point for Iceland in many respects. That year was when the constitutional reform process, started in 2009, came to its formal end on 30 April; it was also when Icelandic politics returned to some sort of ‘normality’. The story of the unprecedented Icelandic constitutional reform needs to be told by those who made it happen. In Iceland, roles and professional identities often overlap as one person may be called upon to play several roles at once; in the case of our contributors, holding an academic position is perhaps their most common denominator. The Icelandic constitutional reform has been an easy victim of what Gunter Frankenberg calls ‘exoticisation,’ which has undoubtedly been compounded by the smallness of Iceland and perhaps to some extent by its increasing popularity as a tourist destination.
