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 spills” and the petro-hegemonies shaping Norway’s oil capital. Drawing on participatory Les mer ...

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, scientists, and local communities, Cody explores how climate technologies like CCS are reshaping Les mer ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...