Titlebook: Entrepreneurship and Agency as Lived Experience; A Transnational Biog Sigríður Matthíasdóttir Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and T

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Establishing a Business at a Transnational Border,how Pálína’s enterprise related to the “private sphere” and consisted of services for the transnational town of Seydisfjördur. Finally, it discusses how this related to Pálína’s lived religion and the presence of “God” in the sources.

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A Conscious But Hidden Female Entrepreneur, relation to the question of female economic agency. It proposes that Pálína, a small-scale businesswoman, consciously constructed her identity as that of a person who was capable of conducting entrepreneurship and dealing with money.

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Approaching the Agency of a Female Entrepreneur,ty is connected to the Norwegian “herring adventure”, when Norwegian fishing operators expanded their herring fishing around East Iceland in the early 1880s. Second, it is related to the event where she sold her mother’s inheritance as a seventeen-year-old.

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,At the Junction between Iceland and Denmark: Family “Capital” and Transnational Ties as a Lived Expollection of folklore have preserved memories of Pálína’s transnational and entrepreneurial forefathers. Furthermore, it thematises problems in using this material as a historical source. The concepts of capital and lived experience are applied to analyse these issues.

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Journeys in a Harsh and Holistic World,ious kinds, is also explored. This chapter proposes that in Pálína’s lived experience, there is a connection between these journeys and what she sees as her “life journey”, characterised by a strong sense of purpose.

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A Young Business Agent in the Making,ty is connected to the Norwegian “herring adventure”, when Norwegian fishing operators expanded their herring fishing around East Iceland in the early 1880s. Second, it is related to the event where she sold her mother’s inheritance as a seventeen-year-old.

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Education and Agency in Transnational Spaces,hat Pálína attended is examined in the light of transnationalism. Pálína’s stay at the school and the private lessons in English that she later took are explained with reference to the transnational, Danish Icelandic social relations that her family possessed.

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The Continent of Reality,sibilities of a female migrant worker. She worked as a maid for “millionaires” and as a supervisor in an ironing house. However, she also transmits the lived experience of her emigration as a “Bildungsreise” and even an “adventure”.