Challenging Nordic Innocence – UiS podkast

Universitetet i Stavanger

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.

10 Episoder

Afro Nordic Feminism – Theorising from our lives
1.12.2025
1:07:49
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
1:07:22
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 ...
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Dissolving the Pill: Imagining the Birth Control Pill in Contemporary Denmark
11.9.2025
1:05:24
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
1:08:45
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 ...
Chemical Pollution and Shadow Places in the Danish Welfare State
16.12.2024
1:06:42
This episode is a conversation between Anders Riel Müller 송연준, Signe Skjoldborg Breighel and Sebastian Lundsteen, departing from Lundsteen’s article “Shadow Places, Environmental Justice, and the Submergence of Pollution.” The episode unpacks the several aspects and complexities of Shadow Places, Les mer ...
Mining, Green Steel and the Comfort of Alignment with extractivism in the Swedish North
22.11.2024
59:15
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 PhD dissertation deals with Swedish extractivism in Sápmi through Les mer ...
Spiralprogrammet i Kalaallit Nunaat som kolonialt folkemord/The IUD Program in Kalaallit Nunaat as Colonial Genocide
29.8.2024
1:14:45
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 om den spiralprogrammeti Kalaallit Nunaat (Grønland) fra 1960erne og 1970erne Les mer ...
The Danish “ghetto law” and the racist and capitalist attack on Denmark’s General Non-profit Housing Sector
4.3.2024
1:05:25
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 requirements on the Danish General Housing sector. There are Les mer ...
Green Colonialism – Wind farms and the Sámì struggles against the Norwegian State
12.2.2024
1:08:14
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 Cecilie Larsen to talk about green colonialism and the South Sámì Les mer ...
Introduction to the Concept of Justice
8.1.2024
1:00:52
This episode introduces several themes surrounding justice. In this first attempt, we have gathered the brilliant scholars Liv Sunnercrantz and Andy Lautrup to discuss environmental justice, social justice, and spatial justice in the Nordic Region. We think about the relationship Les mer ...

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Challenging Nordic Innocence – UiS podkast

Universitetet i Stavanger

10 Episoder

Afro Nordic Feminism – Theorising from our lives

Normandsdalen: Art, Power and Materials in 18th Century Denmark-Norway

Dissolving the Pill: Imagining the Birth Control Pill in Contemporary Denmark

Colonial architecture in Greenland and the material politics of time

Chemical Pollution and Shadow Places in the Danish Welfare State

Mining, Green Steel and the Comfort of Alignment with extractivism in the Swedish North

Spiralprogrammet i Kalaallit Nunaat som kolonialt folkemord/The IUD Program in Kalaallit Nunaat as Colonial Genocide

The Danish “ghetto law” and the racist and capitalist attack on Denmark’s General Non-profit Housing Sector

Green Colonialism – Wind farms and the Sámì struggles against the Norwegian State

Introduction to the Concept of Justice