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About Kenneth Bo Nielsen
I am a social anthropologist working on social movements and the political economy of development in India. In addition to working and teaching at the University of Oslo, I also manage the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies.Kenneth Bo Nielsen is a social anthropologist based in Oslo, and one of the leaders of the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies.
NBN Episodes hosted by Kenneth:
September 20, 2024
A New Testament
In this episode, we are joined by the anthropologist Tone Bleie for a discussion of her book A New Testament: Scandinavian Missionaries and Santal Chi…
April 26, 2024
India Votes 2024
What is at stake at the 2024 Indian national elections? And, what can we expect if the incumbent prime minister Narendra Modi wins another five years …
April 12, 2024
Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants
What does the Miss Tibet beauty pageant tell us about what it means to be Tibetan in a globalized world? And what understandings of Tibetan culture do…
March 29, 2024
India’s Waste Problem
How is India tackling its persistent wage management problems? And, are new infrastructural solutions the way forward? In this episode, Kenneth Bo Nie…
March 15, 2024
Amber Worlds
What role do China and other Asian countries play in the global amber trade? And, what can we learn about the big challenges of our time by studying a…
March 1, 2024
Who owns Khadi?
Why did khadi become so central to India’s freedom struggle? How did it evolve into an international trademark – and what does khadi signify in India …
December 1, 2023
Life after NIAS
In December 2023, more than five decades of institutionalized Nordic collaboration in the field of Asian studies will come to an end with the closure …
November 3, 2023
Understanding Narendra Modi
Why do politicians write poems? And what does a politician’s poetry tell us about their leadership? In this episode, a collective of researchers from …
September 22, 2023
The Political Life of Memory
How do affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities? And how are they used strategically to fu…
July 28, 2023
India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa
In this episode, Kenneth King (University of Edinburgh) & Meera Venkatachalam (University of Mumbai), discuss their recently co-edited volume, India's…
July 7, 2023
Hindu Nationalism and Lower Caste Politics
Why and how has India’s Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, become so adept at appealing to and recruiting people from the lower castes? And what does t…
June 30, 2023
Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations
With Afghanistan once again under Taliban rule and Pakistan reeling under a severe economic and political crisis, the relationship between the neighbo…
May 19, 2023
The Politics of Community-Making in New Urban India
How is urban India changing? And how do communities inhabit and transform India’s new cities and urban spaces? In this episode Kenneth Bo Nielsen is j…
March 31, 2023
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh
What does climate change adaptation look like in Bangladesh? And what kind of gendered social landscape does climate change adaptation have to navigat…
March 10, 2023
Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes
In this episode, we discuss Arve Hansen’s new book Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life (Springer,…
December 30, 2022
Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Lord Parshuram
In this episode, we focus the use of religious myths, icons and deities in Hindu nationalist politics in India. More specifically, we discuss the poli…
November 25, 2022
The Assassination and Legacy of Shinzo Abe
The brutal assassination of Prime Minister Abe in July this year shocked Japan and has produced large and unexpected consequences for the nation´s pol…
October 28, 2022
Political Deification in South Asia
How can we understand the processes through which political leaders, god-men, stars of all kinds, and big or small deities mingle together in the publ…
September 16, 2022
Transcendence and Sustainability
Can spiritually and religiously inspired environmental movements in Asia help reach the global goal of environmental sustainability? This question lie…
August 12, 2022
Podcasting Academic Research
What is the potential of podcasts to disseminate research based insights? How can a podcast function as a networking and pedagogical tool? And what is…
June 10, 2022
What Happened to the Farm Law Movement?
The prolonged farmers' protests that unfolded in India in 2020-2021 undoubtedly represents the most significant and successful farmers’ movement in th…
May 23, 2022
The “Post-Abe” era, Japan under Fumio Kishida
Does Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida´s new administration represent the true beginning of the “Post-Abe” era for Japan? After the one-year trans…
April 11, 2022
India’s Ukrainian Dilemma
The Russian war in Ukraine has placed India in a difficult situation: how to retain the historically good relationship with Russia, without jeopardizi…
April 1, 2022
Masks of Authoritarianism
Bangladesh has turned into a hybrid regime with an increasingly authoritarian culture that silences critics and oppositions in many brutal ways. How d…