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Vikings and Capitalism?
- Richard Cole
Watch a 10-minute film on why modern business people like to compare themselves to their vision of the Vikings.
Norway: Uncovering Gender and Branding in the Nordics with Eirinn Larsen
- Eirinn Larsen
Listen to a podcast on how gender is used as a tool in branding the Nordics.
"I’ve come to buy Tivoli”: Colonial desires and anxieties in Iceland in a new millennium
- Kristín Loftsdóttir
The economic boom in Iceland in the early 2000s reflected how colonial memory can linger on and become mobilized. During this period, Iceland became…
Podcast: The Vikings and Capitalism
- Richard Cole
In this podcast, medieval historian from Aarhus University Richard Cole explores why the Viking era is ‘up for grabs’, and zooms in on why and how…
Addressing climate change the Nordic way: Motives of Swedish companies for taking action
- Cornelia Fast
It is Sweden’s goal to become one of the world’s first fossil fuel free welfare states, and many Swedish companies are voluntarily working to reduce…
Nordic workers vulnerable due to automation: an introduction
- Zhen Im
Widespread economic transformations, such as increasing automation, tend to negatively affect some groups more than others in the Nordic countries, as…
Trade union-administered unemployment benefit and precarious workers in Finland
- Petri Böckerman
The Nordic countries have some of the highest trade union rates of membership in the world. This has by some been attributed to unemployment insurance…
Studio-Based Learning in the Nordics
- Sille Julie J. Abildgaard
Studio-Based Learning (SBL) is an educational tradition with a student-centered approach. The practice originates in Northern Europe, where Nordic…