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Nordic Asia Podcast March 24, 2023

The Great Goa Land Grab

A Discussion with Heather Plumridge Bedi, Solano da Silva, Fredrick Noronha, and Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Heather Plumridge Bedi, Solano da Silva, Fredrick Noronha, and Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Hosted by Arve Hansen
The small Indian state of Goa has witnessed a veritable land rush over many decades, with shifting state governments, leading politicians, and private investors moving in to acquire large tracts …

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The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo.

Nordic Asia Podcast March 17, 2023

Rethinking Community in Myanmar

Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon

Judith Beyer

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Where does the concept of “community” come from? How does it shape the lives of Hindus and Muslims in metropolitan Yangon? And how do these people navigate between their ethno-religious …
Nordic Asia Podcast March 10, 2023

Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes

Societal Transformations and Everyday Life

Arve Hansen

Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
In this episode, we discuss Arve Hansen’s new book Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life (Springer, 2022). In this book, Hansen studies the dramatic changes in …
Nordic Asia Podcast March 3, 2023

The Iko-Project

A Japanese Project on Intercultural Understanding Education

Marie Roesgaard

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
What can a classroom experiment teach us about how and when we start shaping our ideas of ‘the other’? Can the results from such an experiment help us challenge the …
Nordic Asia Podcast February 24, 2023

Beijing's Global Media Offensive

China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World

Joshua Kurlantzick

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
How is China trying to influence media across Asia and indeed globally? Why has this ambitious project achieved rather mixed results so far? And how should the rest of the world …
Nordic Asia Podcast February 17, 2023

Challenging the Malayan Nationhood

Imaginations and Activism by the Peranakan Chinese

Bernard Keo

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Are there viable alternatives to the ethnocentric model of nation-state in post-colonial societies? How did the Peranakan, a non-Malay community, imagine a different Malayan nation and strive to materialize it …
Nordic Asia Podcast February 10, 2023

The Geopolitics of Microchips

China, the EU, and the US

Hermann Aubié

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
What would happen if microchips suddenly disappeared from our world? From phones to cars, medical equipment to heating units, they are crucial for the safe and smooth functioning of much …
Nordic Asia Podcast February 3, 2023

Broken Pathways

Women’s Political Leadership in Sri Lanka

Ramona Vijeyarasa and Nadine Vanniasinkam

Hosted by Petra Alderman
Why are there so few women from non-elite backgrounds in Sri Lankan politics? What barriers do they face on their pathways to politics? And what can be done to support …
Nordic Asia Podcast January 27, 2023

Myanmar Jewellers in China

A Discussion with Juliet Zhu

Juliet Zhu

Hosted by Julie Yu-Wen Chen
China re-opened border in a final farewell to its strict zero-COVID policy on the 8th of January, 2023. But in the first few weeks of January, the Myanmar side of …
Nordic Asia Podcast January 20, 2023

Surviving the State

Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar

Hilary Faxon

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
How do farmers struggle for land and democracy in Myanmar’s hybrid political system? How might a feminist approach to this question look like and enable novel findings? In which ways …
Nordic Asia Podcast January 13, 2023

Malaysia’s GE15: Reflections on a Snap Election

A Discussion with Duncan McCargo

Duncan McCargo

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Malaysia held its fifteenth general election on 19 November 2022 after it was called at short notice before the end of the last government’s term. What was this election all …
Nordic Asia Podcast January 6, 2023

Between the Streets and the Assembly

South Korean Social Movements before and after Democratization

Yoonkyung Lee

Hosted by Myunghee Lee
Welcome to the third NIAS-Korea episode! In this episode, we invite Prof. Yoonkyung Lee to discuss social movements in South Korea. Since its founding, South Korea has had a longstanding …
Nordic Asia Podcast December 30, 2022

Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Lord Parshuram

A Discussion with Solano da Silva and Jigisha Bhattacharya

Solano da Silva and Jigisha Bhattacharya

Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
In this episode, we focus the use of religious myths, icons and deities in Hindu nationalist politics in India. More specifically, we discuss the political invocation of Lord Parshuram, a …
Nordic Asia Podcast December 23, 2022

Fragrant Frontier

Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands

Annuska Derks, Jean-François Rousseau, and Sarah Turner

Hosted by Julia Heinle
Where do the spices we find in our kitchen cabinets come from? What can we learn from tracing spices and their commodities and how does their trade impact the livelihoods …
Nordic Asia Podcast December 16, 2022

“This Claim has been Fact Checked”

A Glimpse into Fact Checking in India

Pratik Sinha

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Have you ever come across a post in social media which says, “The claim is disputed by third-party fact checkers”? Or have you ever come across the term fact checker …
Nordic Asia Podcast December 9, 2022

People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China

Territories of Identity

David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown

Hosted by Julie Yu-Wen Chen
Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown’s new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference …
Nordic Asia Podcast December 2, 2022

Transforming Journalism in Vietnam

An Exploration of Two Swedish Media Aid Projects

Andreas Mattsson

Hosted by Joanne Kuai
What is the journalism culture in Vietnam? What role does Sweden play in the transformation of Vietnamese journalism? How has Swedish media aid fulfilled its political aim to contribute to …
Nordic Asia Podcast November 25, 2022

The Assassination and Legacy of Shinzo Abe

A Discussion with Paul Midford

Paul Midford

Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
The brutal assassination of Prime Minister Abe in July this year shocked Japan and has produced large and unexpected consequences for the nation´s politics. In this episode, we examine the …
Nordic Asia Podcast November 18, 2022

Towards a Green China

Gørild Heggelund, Yong Zhou, and Bjorn Leif Brauteseth

Hosted by Arve Hansen
What does the concept of ecological civilisation mean in practice? And how can we understand the relationship between grand visions, legal systems, green politics and development processes on the ground …
Nordic Asia Podcast November 11, 2022

U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?

A Conversation with Kyaw Zeyar Win

Kyaw Zeyar Win

Hosted by Terese Gagnon
In March 2022 the U.S. government announced its determination that genocide was committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya communities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in 2017. What will this mean …