Globalisation
Here you will find all the content related to the category 'globalisation'.
2020.08.03 | Video, Lill-Ann Körber, Globalisation, Multiculturalism
Film: Nordic postcolonialism
What does postcolonialism refer to when talking about the Nordics? The arts may be the foremost field where we can learn about Nordic postcolonialism judging by the steadily growing number of art works, films, performances and literature dealing with the subject. But, the lens of postcolonialism - or decolonialistion - also importantly allows for…
2020.07.07 | Podcast, Anders Ravn Sørensen, Kazimierz Musiał, Larisa Kangaspuro, Lizaveta Dubinka-Hushcha, Mads Mordhorst, Michael Bennedsen-Hansen, Nicola Witcombe, Norbert Götz, Nation building
Podcast: The Nordics and Identity
From the outside, it is assumed that the populations of the Nordic countries are fairly homogeneous and that there is a relatively high level of gender equality and acceptance of different sexualities and diversity. In short, identity is not much of a problem. On closer examination, however, there are similar tendencies to elsewhere, such as more…
![Greta Thunberg holding her original sign saying 'Skolstrejk för klimatet' [School strike for the climate]. Photo: Anders Hellberg, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.](typo3temp/_processed_/csm_Greta_Thunberg_Wikimedia_CC_BY-SA_4.0_Anders_Hellberg__2__d0495747e5.jpg "Greta Thunberg holding her original sign saying 'Skolstrejk för klimatet' [School strike for the climate].")
2020.06.22 | Biography, Pernille Almlund, Globalisation
Greta Thunberg – a climate activist
The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (born 2003) is in many ways a unique phenomenon and an inspiration to many activists all over the world, both children and adults, but she has also faced criticism from various quarters, not least climate change skeptics.
2020.03.12 | The Quick Read, Nicola Witcombe, The Nordics in the World, Globalisation
The 1878 Fireburn uprising in the Danish West Indies
Even after the abolition of slavery in 1848, conditions for workers in the plantations of the Danish West Indies were not much improved. This led to unrest and the Fireburn uprising on St. Croix in 1878. The precise events during the uprising have been little studied, partly due to the court and other records being in Danish. The uprising has…
2020.02.14 | Article, Lizaveta Dubinka-Hushcha, The Nordics in the World, Globalisation
Denmark’s relationship with Europe since 2000
Denmark has been characterised by a ‘soft’ type of Euroscepticism. There are multiple institutional safeguards in Denmark to allow for selective participation in European integration, such as, safeguards in its Constitution with respect to delegating power, and a parliamentary committee which has oversight over decisions in Europe. The…
2020.02.06 | The Quick Read, Helge Ø. Pharo, The Nordics in the World, Globalisation
Norway, the West and the Soviet Union, 1944-48
The term ’bridge-building’ is often used to describe Norwegian foreign policy from the tail end of the Second World War until Norway's turn to the West in early 1948. Even though the term is ambiguous at best, it now occupies an established place in Norwegian historiography, and reflects the perceived position of Norway between East and West in…
2020.01.21 | The Quick Read, Anna Derksen, The Nordics in the World, Globalisation
Disability, development and the Nordics, 1960s-2000
Nordic disability organizations have been carrying out development projects in the Global South since the 1960s. Initially a preventive and rehabilitative approach was taken with, for example, a focus on schools for special education, vocational training and medical care. Although important, this type of aid became increasingly seen as…
2020.01.14 | Article, Peter Yding Brunbech, The Nordics in the World, Globalisation
An overview of Danish international development aid, 1960-2010
Denmark has historically been amongst the largest donors of development aid in proportion with its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Since the middle of the 1970s, the country has been one of the few to live up to the United Nation’s goals for high income countries, that is, to provide at least 0.7% of GDP. In a short period in the 1990s, Denmark…
2020.01.06 | Article, Helge Ø. Pharo, The Nordics in the World, Globalisation
The India Foundation: The beginning of Norwegian aid
The Foundation for Assistance for Underdeveloped Areas, or India Foundation as it was known, marked the beginning of Norwegian international development aid in 1952. Against the backdrop of the Marshall Plan and the burgeoning Cold War, there were persuasive political reasons for the initiative, over and above its purported purpose to assist India.
2019.02.22 | The Quick Read, Norbert Götz, Globalisation, The Nordics in the World
United Nations and the Nordic countries
The principles and aims of the United Nations resonate in the Nordic countries, which are small welfare states with an appreciation of international law, solidarity and multilateral problem-solving. From the time of the League of Nations (the precursor to the United Nations) to the 1990s, the Nordic region developed and operated a caucusing and…