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2021.05.12 | Article, Charlotte Biil, Public policy, Copenhagen Business School
Is working together key to the Nordic welfare model?
Maintaining high quality welfare organizations is tough even in the Nordic countries with a myriad of unforeseen challenges to contend with, including budget cuts, personnel issues and reorganization. The focus of New Public Governance on how to govern networks between public and private actors is useful. However, the managerial, organizational…
2021.04.29 | Article, Helena Forsås-Scott, Gender, Literature
Feminist writing in the Nordics, 1970s-2000
Feminist writing in 1970s, particularly prose fiction, was inspired by second-wave feminism and by the mid-1980s, feminist writing had become a significant element in Nordic culture. Over the following two decades, issues of gender, frequently explored in terms of language, identity and the body, also gave new prominence to genres such as drama…
2021.04.21 | Article, Astrid Elkjær Sørensen, Gender, Public policy, Labour markets, Aarhus University
Unequal pay in Denmark: The impact of an outdated law
Danish nurses still receive 10-20% less in pay than male-dominated professions requiring a similar level of education. There are many contributing factors to unequal pay, but a recent report from the Danish Institute for Human Rights found that one key reason is the effect of the 1969 Public Servant Reform Act which saw nurses and other…
2021.04.07 | Article, Melina Antonia Buns, Sustainability, University of Oslo
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…
2021.02.24 | Article, Kristín Loftsdóttir, Nation building, Business, University of Iceland
"I’ve come to buy Tivoli”: Colonial desires and anxieties in Iceland in a new millennium
The economic boom in Iceland in the early 2000s reflected how colonial memory can linger on and become mobilized. During this period, Iceland became internationally visible due to aggressive global investments, embodied for the most part by male businessmen frequently referred to as 'Vikings'. This economic expansion, or 'útrás' as it is called in…
2021.01.22 | Article, Anna Derksen, Public policy
Disability policies and movements in the Nordic countries since 1945
During the last century, the situation of people with disabilities in the Nordic welfare states has changed dramatically. For a long time disability was regarded as an issue for the national welfare services, which had a marginalizing effect from a legal point of view, characterized by medical diagnostics, accommodation in mass institutions and…
2021.01.07 | Article, Niels Brimnes, Governance, Nation building, Aarhus University
The colonialism of Denmark-Norway and its legacies
Overshadowed by British and French Imperialism, the small-scale colonialism of some of the Nordic countries can all too easily be downplayed. From the 19th century, the self-image of the Nordic countries as a group of small, neutral nations has probably perpetuated this misconception. However, Denmark-Norway engaged in a variety of colonial…
2020.12.28 | Article, Sally Salminen, Ulrika Gustafsson, Paul Larkin, Literature
Sally Salminen and her work
In 1936 the Finland-Swedish writer Sally Salminen won a literary prize for her first novel 'Katrina' which saw her life change. That someone like her, unknown and from the working class, could write such a good book was a global sensation - she was a living example of the American dream. From then on, she could stop working as a maid and become…
2020.12.22 | Article, Anna Derksen, Minorities, The Nordics in the World
Transnational interactions of Nordic disability activism, 1980-2000
In 1981, the United Nations International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP) shed new light on the global situation of people with disabilities with the slogan ‘full participation and equality’. Based on a longer history of Nordic disability rights activism since the 1960s and the assumption that equal rights of disabled people had by and large…
2020.12.17 | Article, Vibeke Sofie Sandager Rønnedal, Culture, Minorities, Aarhus University
Racism in classic pieces of Nordic children's literature
Some of the most beloved figures in Nordic children’s literary classics from the 20th century are rooted in narrow-minded caricatures, and racial prejudice can be so subtly embedded in many older pieces of literature that even contemporary readers are blinded to it. The discussion surrounding the republishing of some of these controversial books…