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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's website
NBN Episodes hosted by Kenneth Bo:
Nordic Asia Podcast
September 22, 2023
The Political Life of Memory
Birsa Munda in Contemporary India
Rahul Ranjan
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Listen:
How do affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities? And how are they used strategically to further particular political projects? In this episode, we …
Nordic Asia Podcast
July 28, 2023
India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa
A Discussion with Kenneth King and Meera Venkatachalam
Kenneth King and Meera Venkatachalam
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Listen:
In this episode, Kenneth King (University of Edinburgh) & Meera Venkatachalam (University of Mumbai), discuss their recently co-edited volume, India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa, published by Boydell …
Nordic Asia Podcast
July 7, 2023
Hindu Nationalism and Lower Caste Politics
A Discussion with Samantha Agarwal
Samantha Agarwal
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Listen:
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 this mean for Indian …
Nordic Asia Podcast
June 30, 2023
Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations
A Clash of Identities?
Farhat Taj
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
With Afghanistan once again under Taliban rule and Pakistan reeling under a severe economic and political crisis, the relationship between the neighbouring countries is growing increasingly tense. How can we …
Nordic Asia Podcast
May 19, 2023
The Politics of Community-Making in New Urban India
Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities
Ritanjan Das and Nilotpal Kumar
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
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 joined by Ritanjan Das to …
Nordic Asia Podcast
March 31, 2023
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh
An Interview with Kathinka Fossum Evertsen
Kathinka Fossum Evertsen
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
What does climate change adaptation look like in Bangladesh? And what kind of gendered social landscape does climate change adaptation have to navigate in Bangladesh? Bangladesh is among the countries …
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
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
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
October 28, 2022
Political Deification in South Asia
A Discussion with Moumita Sen, Michael Stausberg, Praskanva Sinharay and Sharika Thiranagama
Moumita Sen, Michael Stausberg, Praskanva Sinharay and Sharika Thiranagama
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
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 public sphere? And what are the …
Nordic Asia Podcast
September 16, 2022
Transcendence and Sustainability
Asian Visions with Global Promise
Mette Halskov, Amita Baviskar, and Lu Chen
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Can spiritually and religiously inspired environmental movements in Asia help reach the global goal of environmental sustainability? This question lies at the heart of the research project “Transcendence and Sustainability …
Nordic Asia Podcast
August 12, 2022
Podcasting Academic Research
A Chat about the Nordic Asia Podcast
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
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 so intriguing about a Nordic …
Nordic Asia Podcast
June 10, 2022
What Happened to the Farm Law Movement?
A Conversation with Amandeep Sandhu
Amandeep Sandhu
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
The prolonged farmers' protests that unfolded in India in 2020-2021 undoubtedly represents the most significant and successful farmers’ movement in the country in recent decades. Often referred to as the …
Nordic Asia Podcast
May 23, 2022
The “Post-Abe” era, Japan under Fumio Kishida
Paul Midford
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Does Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida´s new administration represent the true beginning of the “Post-Abe” era for Japan? After the one-year transitional administration of Yoshihide Suga, Kishida was able to …
Nordic Asia Podcast
April 11, 2022
India’s Ukrainian Dilemma
A Discussion with Ravinder Kaur, Henrik Chetan Aspengren and Sunniva Engh
Ravinder Kaur, Henrik Chetan Aspengren and Sunniva Engh
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
The Russian war in Ukraine has placed India in a difficult situation: how to retain the historically good relationship with Russia, without jeopardizing the increasingly important strategic partnership with the …
Nordic Asia Podcast
April 1, 2022
Masks of Authoritarianism
Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh
Arild Engelsen Ruud and Mubashar Hasan
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Bangladesh has turned into a hybrid regime with an increasingly authoritarian culture that silences critics and oppositions in many brutal ways. How does the increasing authoritarianism of a surveillance state …
Nordic Asia Podcast
March 18, 2022
Democratic Backsliding in Sri Lanka
A Discussion with Øivind Fuglerud
Øivind Fuglerud
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Cocktail umbrellas and refugee camps, serene Buddhist monasteries and soldiers in combat fatigues – Sri Lanka is a country of paradoxes. When the country became independent in 1948 it was …
Nordic Asia Podcast
March 14, 2022
India's Five State Elections and their Implications
A Roundtable Discussion
Arild Ruud, Guro Samuelsen, Edward Moon-Little, Rahul Ranjan and Shreya Sinha
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
The past few months have been election season in India. Although these are state elections, many view them as a key midterm evaluation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his …
Nordic Asia Podcast
February 25, 2022
Mythopolitics in South Asia
Moumita Sen, Silje L. Einarsen, The’ang Theron and Guro W. Samuelsen
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
India has been caught in a question for almost a decade now: is it a secular democracy or is it a Hindu nation? The struggles over this question goes from …
Nordic Asia Podcast
January 14, 2022
Heritage, Humour and Regional Identity in Goa
A Conversation with Prakruti Ramesh
Prakruti Ramesh
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Since the 1980s, pictures by the late Goan cartoonist Mario Miranda have been used to adorn and confer ‘local’ flavour on a variety of public settings in Goa. Today, Miranda’s …
Nordic Asia Podcast
December 13, 2021
Autocratization in South Asia
Sten Widmalm
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Although autocratic forms of rule have a longer history in postcolonial South Asia, the slide towards autocratization has arguably accelerated in recent years, albeit unevenly. In this episode Kenneth Bo …
Nordic Asia Podcast
November 12, 2021
In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South - Implications for the North
A Conversation with Olle Törnquist
Olle Törnquist
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
In his new book In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South - Implications for the North (Zed-Bloomsbury), Olle Törnquist has returned to findings from fifty years of …
Nordic Asia Podcast
October 22, 2021
The Modi Wave
Politics of the Pandemic in India
Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
At the start of 2021, a widespread belief held that India had escaped the Covid-19 pandemic relatively unscathed - this was evidenced, the story went, in the country's comparatively low …
Nordic Asia Podcast
September 24, 2021
The Turbulence and Controversies of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission
Sofie Schütte
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Indonesia’s corruption eradication commission, known as the KPK has widely been considered one of the most powerful and successful anti-corruption agencies in the region, if not in the entire world …
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