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 an analysis of broader issues of cultural encounters and race relations. Join Lill-Ann Körber, Professor at Aarhus University, in a brief exploration of the ways colonial relationships and legacies are dealt with in the Nordics, and hear some specific and interesting examples that she draws on from contemporary society.

This is the third in a series of short films on the humanities and social sciences in the Nordics and the world, supported by the University Hub ‘Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World’ (ReNEW), NordForsk and Aarhus University.

(Both English and Danish subtitles are available on this film.)

Further reading:

• La Vaughn Belle, Tami Navarro, Hadiya Sewer & Tiphanie Yanique 'Ancestral Queendom. Reflections on the Prison Records of the Rebel Queens of the 1878 Fireburn in St. Croix, USVI (formerly the Danish West Indies)', in: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Informationsvidenskab og Kulturformidling, 8, 2 (2019) pp. 19-36. 
• Lill-Ann Körber and Ebbe Volquardsen, eds., The Postcolonial North Atlantic: Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands (Nordeuropa-Institut der Humboldt-Universität, 2014).
• Lill-Ann Körber, ‘Gold Coast (2015) and Danish Economies of Colonial Guilt’. Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 10,2, (2018), pp. 25-37.
• Lill-Ann Körber, ‘Traveling to Caribbean Sweden: St. Barthélemy as Tourist and Tax’. RETHINKING SCANDINAVIA — CSS Publications Web Quarterly, 2,1, (2018), pp.1-21.Links:

Links:

• Danish Prime Minister's speech on Transfer Day on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, 31th March 2017 on danmarkshistorien.dk (in English and Danish)
• Frederiksgave Plantation and Common Heritage Site: A historical exhibition and cultural centre covering a chapter in the history of Ghana’s and Denmark’s common past and cultural heritage
• I am Queen Mary: about the statue in Copenhagen and the artists
• Lecture by Lill-Ann Körber: Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives on Nordic World Literature, 2018, Centre for Scandinavian Studies Copenhagen-Lund (Video - lecture in English).
• More on Melting Barricades By Inuk Silis Høegh & Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen (in Danish).
• Sámi information in Sweden
• The Government and Parliament of Greenland
• We carry it with us: 2017 documentary film