Research

All the information on nordics.info is research-based, however, this page helps you to find content by ReNEW scholars and others which is more explicitly about up to date research.

Map showing where Greenland is located on the map.

10 September 2019 - Thorsten Borring Olesen

In the summer of 2019, the Trump Administration voiced an interest in buying Greenland from Denmark. The historical background for this stretches at…

25 June 2019 - Helena Kaarina Blomberg

There have been drastic changes to the political and economic climate since the inception of the Nordic welfare states in the twentieth century.…

Child surrounded with a bunch of autumn leaves

03 June 2019 - Helle Strandgaard Jensen

Children’s departments in Scandinavian broadcasting corporations (in Denmark, Norway and Sweden) were clearly influenced by the call for equality and…

Poster of women of different colours' arms up in the air with clenched fists

21 May 2019 - Hannah Yoken

The Nordic countries are globally renowned as states that embrace gender equality. However, the region also has a rich history of feminist activism at…

29 March 2019 - Laura Bjørg Serup Petersen

The church as a social caretaker became less common throughout the 20th century as the Nordic welfare state increasingly took over this task. Churches…

29 March 2019 - Jaakko Seppälä

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

01 March 2019 - Anna Estera Mrozewicz

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

A large movie poster on a building of two characters (Isak and Even) from Skam

28 February 2019 - Saara Ratilainen

Fans redefine geopolitical and gender-based boundaries: Shame [Skam], is a hit teen drama series produced by the Public Broadcasting Service in…

22 February 2019 - Johannes Riquet

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

22 February 2019 - Saara Ratilainen

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

THEME: Views of a Nordic Past

Revised 13.09.2023

Research

Buying Greenland? Trump, Truman and the 'Pearl of the Mediterranean'

The Nordic welfare state: staying fit-for-purpose

How to raise your parents: Scandinavian children’s television in 1970s

Transnational interaction among feminist activists in the Nordic Countries, 1970s-2000

Intercultural encounters in the Danish church in 2010s

Style and meaning in Nordic Noir: Reimagining the welfare states

Reimagining Nordic Eco-exceptionalism in the television series Occupied

Russian fans of Norwegian TV series Shame

Cold Bodies: The geopolitics of ice in recent arctic cinema

Russian fans interacting with Nordic television series (the case of Shame)

POPULAR ARTICLE: Russian fans of Norwegian TV series Shame

THEME: Views of a Nordic Past