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The Nordic mobile telephone network Nordisk MobilTelefoni (NMT) opened in 1981 quickly becoming the world’s largest until the early 2000s when it was…

Jantelov or the Law of Jante refers to a disdainful attitude to extraordinary achievements and is often mockingly used to exemplify unflattering…

The use of folk costumes is widespread in, for example, Åland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Sami areas and their social importance varies,…

The scientific study of language form and meaning, including the specialised branch of runology, has been a prominent academic pursuit in the Nordics…

Since 1990s, Nordic crime fiction has been a significant sub-genre within the global genre of crime fiction. Usually characterised by social realism,…

Folk high schools are institutions which provide general and vocational education for young people and adults. Based on the philosophy of Danish…

As elsewhere, modernism was a movement concerning the profound questioning of traditional values, modes of speaking and interpretations of…

This presentation is from a transdisciplinary research workshop entitled Nordic Noir, Geopolitics and the North held at Aarhus University in October…

The mobile phone, and more specifically the ‘smart’ phone, has emerged as a key visual, dramaturgical and narrative element of Nordic noir television…

Open government is intended to ensure transparency, accountability and openness and involves fundamental issues such as press freedom, public…