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About Nordic Asia Podcast
The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the following academic partners:
-Asia Centre, University of Tartu (Estonia)
-Asian studies, University of Helsinki (Finland)
-Centre for Asian Studies, Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
-Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University (Sweden)
-Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku (Finland)
NBN Episodes hosted by Nordic:
October 25, 2024
Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
Why should we focus on Taiwan to understand the future risks facing the world? Professor Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the…
October 11, 2024
Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State
What skills and strategies enable civil society to be effective under authoritarian rule? Dr. Runya Qiaoan, assistant professor and senior researcher …
September 8, 2024
The Relations of Estonia and Japan from the 19th Century to the early-21st Century
Is there much to say about historical ties between two countries that are 8000 kilometres apart from each other? Actually, yes. In this episode Ene Se…
June 21, 2024
The Religious Landscape of Taiwan
How is Buddhism seen and practiced in Taiwan? And how do neighbouring countries influence Taiwanese Buddhism? In this episode we explore the religious…
June 7, 2024
Recycling Class
What types of coalitions can deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives? And how can we avoid reproducing unjust distributions of risk a…
May 24, 2024
Asian Soft Power in Estonia
How do Asian nations exercise soft power in the Baltics? Soft power is a political strategy to influence other international relations actors by using…
May 10, 2024
South Korea after the 2024 Parliamentary Elections
How do election campaigns in South Korea look like? Why have satellite parties become an important instrument of power politics? What do the election …
February 16, 2024
Risks of US-China Geoeconomic Rivalry
What happens if the geoeconomic risks of great power rivalry materialise? What can be done to prevent these potential dangers from unfolding in small …
January 5, 2024
China’s Environmental Footprint in Ghana
Musicians and community activists in Ghana have raised their voices to increase awareness of the environmental impact of Chinese activities in the cou…
December 29, 2023
Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan
Have you ever felt that the grammar of Asian languages does not fit with the framework that we use to describe them? In the late 19th century, Asian g…
December 15, 2023
Between Jesus and Krishna
One of the eight national dances of India, bharatanatyam, partly originates from the area around Tranquebar. During the time that Tranquebar was a Dan…
October 20, 2023
Cleric, Cadre, Businessman
What does Buddhism have to do with harbors? Find out how China is leveraging religion in its foreign policy and why it is a vital part of China's soft…
October 6, 2023
India, Asia, and the Global South
How should we understand the emergence of the Global South as a political actor? What is the role of India within this framework? Which challenges and…
August 18, 2023
Civil Society Elites
What does civil society look like in Indonesia and Cambodia, and who are civil society elites? In this podcast interview, editors of the recently publ…
August 11, 2023
Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos
What does a map of Southeast Asia as a pegasus have to do with translation and Southeast Asia? How can we think of translation as anything other than …
June 23, 2023
Global India
In 2023, India surpassed China in numbers of total population and holds the presidency of the prestigious G20, shortly after it overtook the UK as the…
June 9, 2023
Creating Sustainable Value in Social Enterprises in Philippines
Are there ways to tackle pressing social, environmental and economic problems at once? In this episode, Professor Assunta Cuyegkeng from Ateneo de Man…
April 14, 2023
Slum Tourism and Affective Economy in Delhi, India
In Delhi, former street children guide visiting tourists around the streets that they used to inhabit and show how the NGO they work for tries to reso…
April 7, 2023
Visibility as Threat
Why do very small groups, like the Ahmadiyah sect in Indonesia, become targets of mobilization and repression? How do political entrepreneurs play a r…
March 17, 2023
Rethinking Community in Myanmar
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 nav…
March 3, 2023
The Iko-Project
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…
February 17, 2023
Challenging the Malayan Nationhood
Are there viable alternatives to the ethnocentric model of nation-state in post-colonial societies? How did the Peranakan, a non-Malay community, imag…
February 10, 2023
The Geopolitics of Microchips
What would happen if microchips suddenly disappeared from our world? From phones to cars, medical equipment to heating units, they are crucial for the…
January 20, 2023
Surviving the State
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 enab…