This podcast series questions the idealized notion of the Nordic region as characterized by egalitarianism, environmentalism, and a benevolent welfare state through interviews with researchers and activists on social, environmental, and spatial justice. It’s a collaboration between the University of Stavanger’s Social and Spatial Justice research group and Copenhagen University’s Centre for Sustainable Futures.
Latest episodes
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Mental Oil Spills in Norway’s Oil Capital
Oil is everywhere in Stavanger—highly visible, and yet also out of sight. In this episode of Challenging Nordic Innocence, we’re joined by Bjørk Tørnqvist to talk about “mental oil…
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Carbon Capture and the Political Capture of Nature in Iceland
In this episode, we speak with anthropologist Cody Skahan about carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Iceland and the Nordic region. Drawing on fieldwork with environmental activists…
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1 h 06
Racial Capitalism, Temporal Dispossession, and the Politics of Asylum in Sweden
What happens when we think of the Nordic welfare state not only as a protector of rights and social welfare, but also as a site of dispossession? In this episode of Challenging Nor…
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1 h 07
Afro Nordic Feminism – Theorising from our lives
Afro Nordic Feminism is an emerging Black feminist project that centers on the experiences, knowledge, communities, and social justice organizing of people of African descent livin…
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Normandsdalen: Art, Power and Materials in 18th Century Denmark-Norway
Over the period 1764–84, King Frederik V established a sculpture park at Fredensborg Palace North of Copenhagen, with 70 statues of Norwegian, Sámi and Faroese people. In this epis…
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Dissolving the Pill: Imagining the Birth Control Pill in Contemporary Denmark
In this episode we are joined by Anne Nørkjær Bang – a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark. This summer, Bang defended her dissertation titled “Dissolving…
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1 h 08
Colonial architecture in Greenland and the material politics of time
In this episode we talk to Dr. Tone Huse about her article “Temporal displacement: colonial architecture and its contestation” where she explores and analyses the Danish state’s at…
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1 h 06
Chemical Pollution and Shadow Places in the Danish Welfare State
This episode is a conversation between Anders Riel Müller 송연준, Signe Skjoldborg Breighel and Sebastian Lundsteen, departing from Lundsteen’s article “Shadow Places, Environmental J…
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Mining, Green Steel and the Comfort of Alignment with extractivism in the Swedish North
In this episode we talk to Georgia De Leeuw about her research on mining, green steel and the comfort alignment with extractivism in in the Swedish north, or indigenous Sápmi. Her…
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Spiralprogrammet i Kalaallit Nunaat som kolonialt folkemord/The IUD Program in Kalaallit Nunaat as Colonial Ge…
Dansk Beskrivelse I denne episode har vi besøg af forskerne Naja Dyrendom Graugaard, Josefine Lee Stage og Victoria Pihl Sørensen, som i skrivende stund er i gang med en artikkel o…
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The Danish “ghetto law” and the racist and capitalist attack on Denmark’s General Non-profit Housing Sector
In this episode we have with us Jean Thierry and Tobias Gregory from the organisation “Almen Modstand” which was formed in response to the 2018 so-called ghetto law that put strict…
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Green Colonialism – Wind farms and the Sámì struggles against the Norwegian State
In this episode, we are joined by Aili Keskitalo from Amnesty International and former president of the Sámì Parliament in Norway and PhD fellow at the University of Stavanger Ceci…
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Introduction to the Concept of Justice
This episode introduces several themes surrounding justice. In this first attempt, we have gathered the brilliant scholars Liv Sunnercrantz and Andy Lautrup to discuss environmenta…