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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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
How do affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities? And how are they used strategically to fu…
In this episode, Kenneth King (University of Edinburgh) & Meera Venkatachalam (University of Mumbai), discuss their recently co-edited volume, India's…
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…
With Afghanistan once again under Taliban rule and Pakistan reeling under a severe economic and political crisis, the relationship between the neighbo…
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…
What does climate change adaptation look like in Bangladesh? And what kind of gendered social landscape does climate change adaptation have to navigat…
In this episode, we discuss Arve Hansen’s new book Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life (Springer,…
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…
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…
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…
Can spiritually and religiously inspired environmental movements in Asia help reach the global goal of environmental sustainability? This question lie…
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…
The prolonged farmers' protests that unfolded in India in 2020-2021 undoubtedly represents the most significant and successful farmers’ movement in th…
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…
The Russian war in Ukraine has placed India in a difficult situation: how to retain the historically good relationship with Russia, without jeopardizi…
Bangladesh has turned into a hybrid regime with an increasingly authoritarian culture that silences critics and oppositions in many brutal ways. How d…
Cocktail umbrellas and refugee camps, serene Buddhist monasteries and soldiers in combat fatigues – Sri Lanka is a country of paradoxes. When the coun…
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 Minist…
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 …
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…