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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 Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS) at the University of Turku, Asianettverket at the University of Oslo, and the Forum for Asian Studies at Stockholm University.

This podcast series is brought to you by:

NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, CEAS - Centre for East Asian Studies at Turku University, Asianettverket at the University of Oslo and the Stockholm Centre for Global Asia at Stockholm University.

NBN Episodes hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast:

Nordic Asia Podcast April 14, 2023

Slum Tourism and Affective Economy in Delhi, India

A Discussion with Tore Holst

Tore Holst

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
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 resocialise the current street …
Nordic Asia Podcast April 7, 2023

Visibility as Threat

The Targeting of Micro-Sized Groups in Indonesia

Jessica Soedirgo

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Why do very small groups, like the Ahmadiyah sect in Indonesia, become targets of mobilization and repression? How do political entrepreneurs play a role in facilitating violence against such groups …
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 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 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 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 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 September 30, 2022

Beyond Meat?

Dietary Shifts and Meat Contestations in China, India and Vietnam

Helene Ramnæs, Marius Korsnes, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, and Arve Hansen

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
What explains the uneven meatification of diets in three of Asia’s core ‘emerging economies’? How and why is meat consumption changing today, and what role have American fast-food chains played …
Nordic Asia Podcast September 9, 2022

Chinese Outbound Tourism

Leisure or Political Tool?

Matias Thuen Jørgensen

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
How did Chinese tourism grow from almost non-existent to being the largest outbound travel source market in the world over a couple of decades? Is the word “weaponization” a fair …
Nordic Asia Podcast September 2, 2022

Triumph for Independent Candidates?

Observations on the 2022 Local Elections in Nepal

Nayan Pokhrel and Hanna Geschewski

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Nepal's recent local elections, held in May 2022 in 753 urban and rural municipalities, produced a number of surprises. Most prominent in national headlines was the victory of independent candidate …
Nordic Asia Podcast August 19, 2022

Temperatures on the Rise

Adapting to Heat Extremes in South Asia

Chandni Singh and Emmanuel Raju

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Between March and May of this year, large parts of India and Pakistan were hit by a severe heat wave that claimed at least 90 lives and seriously impacted people's …
Nordic Asia Podcast August 5, 2022

China’s Role in the Future of Green Energy

A Discussion with Einari Kisel

Einari Kisel

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
How green is green energy really? And what role does Asia, more specifically China play in the transition to green energy? On the 7th of July, International Energy Agency came …
Nordic Asia Podcast July 29, 2022

Indonesia’s Response to the War in Ukraine

A Conversation with Radityo Dharmaputra

Radityo Dharmaputra

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
With the upcoming G20 summit this November, all eyes should be on Indonesia – the fourth largest country in the world and current holder of G20 presidency. How has Indonesia …
Nordic Asia Podcast June 6, 2022

Popular Demand for Strongman Rule?

Reflections on the 2022 Philippine Election

Duncan McCargo

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
What enabled the 2022 electoral victory of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of a dictator that the historic People Power Revolution ousted 36 years ago? To what extent did the …
Nordic Asia Podcast April 15, 2022

Timor-Leste Elections

José Ramos-Horta in Conversation with Amber Woortman

José Ramos-Horta

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Jose Ramos-Horta topped the first round of polling in the 2022 Timor-Leste presidential elections, securing 46.56 per cent of the popular vote on 19 March. Here he speaks to Amber …
Nordic Asia Podcast January 21, 2022

China's Environmental Foreign Relations

Heidi Wang-Kaeding

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Environmental protection and climate actions has embedded in China’s foreign policy and the Chinese government has recently pledged to make the Belt and Road Initiative “open, green, and clean”. How …
Nordic Asia Podcast January 10, 2022

Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam

Between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression

Mirjam Le and Franziska Nicolaisen

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Does ‘citizenship’ exist in a socialist or communist context? If it does, what would this mean in the case of Vietnam? To what extent do the Vietnamese state and Vietnamese …
Nordic Asia Podcast December 17, 2021

Overseas Remittances in Vietnam’s Reform Era

Hoàng Minh Vũ

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Why was there a large flow of overseas remittances into Vietnam after 1975, and how were they channelled? Why was there so little public discussion of the financial role played …
Nordic Asia Podcast July 23, 2021

Popular Protests in the Age of #MilkTeaAlliance

A Discussion with Wasana Wongsurawat and Mai Corlin Fredriksen

Wasana Wongsurawat and Mai Corlin Fredriksen

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
What influence can online and visual activism have on protest movements? With a wave of anti-establishment protests sweeping over East and Southeast Asia over the past couple of years, the …
Nordic Asia Podcast July 2, 2021

The State of the Hong Kong Labor Movement

A Discussion with Bill Taylor

Bill Taylor

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
What is happening to the labor movement in Hong Kong? Why was May Day this year such a muted commemoration? And how have recent political upheavals in Hong Kong affected …
Nordic Asia Podcast March 26, 2021

Thailand's New Political Generation with Duncan McCargo - Forward to the Future?

Duncan McCargo

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
In this podcast, Andrew Nathan of Columbia University talks to Duncan McCargo about the origins of Thailand's recent youth-led street political demonstrations. How far did the success of the short-lived Future Forward …
Nordic Asia Podcast March 5, 2021

Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits in Laos with Rosalie Stolz

Rosalie Stolz

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
In this episode, Adela Briansó talks to Rosalie Stolz about her latest NIAS Press book Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos. She offers a fresh …