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2021.04.09 | Podcast, Robert A. Saunders, Media, Reputation
Television and Geopolitics: A Conversation on the Nordics
The interplay between popular culture and the ’real’ world is interesting. While it is clear that many creators of television, comic books and songs etc take inspiration from live events, the influence of popular culture on events themselves is perhaps less obvious. Frequently quoted examples are The Games of Thrones influencing the…
2021.04.07 | Article, Melina Antonia Buns, Sustainability
The emergence of Nordic environmental cooperation, 1967-1974
Today the environment is a key policy issue of institutionalised Nordic cooperation. Yet it was only in the late 1960s that the environment emerged on the Nordic agenda. Its emergence was influenced by the so-called ‘ecological turn’ at the time, but economic considerations were by far the most decisive. Firstly, policy-makers were concerned that…
2021.03.30 | Podcast, Lill-Ann Körber, Region-building, Culture
Uncovering the Legacies of Nordic Colonialism with Lill-Ann Körber
Studying culture – high or low, images or text, written or otherwise, and in many different manifestations – can sometimes reveal things which other more formal sources cannot. Lill-Ann Körber is Professor of Nordic literature, media and culture at Aarhus University and has a background in literature and art history within Scandinavian Studies.…
2021.03.24 | Outlook, Barbora Žiačková, Saga Rosenström, Gender
Pop culture, Vikings and historic Nordic gender equality?
Gender equality is a fundamental part of the Nordic brand, and right-wing political actors as well as extremists use ideas of gender equality in support of anti-immigrant and racist agendas. The pop culture image of Viking women as ‘independent’ and ‘equal to men’ provides one way in which gender equality as an aspect of Nordicness has gained…
2021.03.19 | Podcast, Janet Garton, Paul Larkin, Culture, Literature
The Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough
The social, political and literary movement from around 1870 to 1900 in Scandinavia was called the Modern Breakthrough. It was a backlash against conservatism, both culturally and politically, and led to countless challenging and fascinating pieces of fictional and non-fictional literature and art. Authors were like celebrities, propounding social…
