Racial Capitalism, Temporal Dispossession, and the Politics of Asylum in Sweden
06.1.2026 | 1 t. 6 min.
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 Nordic Innocence, we talk with Sarah Philipson Isaac Les mer ...
Afro Nordic Feminism – Theorising from our lives
01.12.2025 | 1 t. 7 min.
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 living in the Nordic Region. In this episode we discuss the approach with Oda-Kange Midtvåge Les mer ...
Normandsdalen: Art, Power and Materials in 18th Century Denmark-Norway
29.9.2025 | 1 t. 7 min.
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 episode, we speak with Professor Mathias Danbolt, art historian and lead researcher Les mer ...
Dissolving the Pill: Imagining the Birth Control Pill in Contemporary Denmark
11.9.2025 | 1 t. 5 min.
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 the Pill: Imagining the Birth Control Pill in Contemporary Denmark” which interrogate Les mer ...
Colonial architecture in Greenland and the material politics of time
10.6.2025 | 1 t. 8 min.
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 attempt to ‘modernize’ Kalaallit Nunaat (a.k.a. Greenland). She focuses on the technologies of Les mer ...

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