Shaping the Nordic Past: Fact, Fiction or Politics?

05/18/21 • 26 min

Listen to this podcast if you want to hear more about:

Memory studies.
Why is our relationship with the past so important for society?
How do we deal with different versions of the past?
Scandinavian memory culture: the dangers of complacency.

The editor of nordics.info and Danish history student Vibeke Sandager Rønnedal interview two historians from Aarhus University and the Danish Centre for Urban History.
Read more about the podcast and what is mentioned in it by going to nordics.info.
Sounds from freesound.org including All I Did Was Wait For You by kjartan_abel and Scene Change Music by dominictreis.

Listen to this podcast if you want to hear more about:

Memory studies.
Why is our relationship with the past so important for society?
How do we deal with different versions of the past?
Scandinavian memory culture: the dangers of complacency.

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Uncovering the Nordic Model with Caroline de la Porte

Listen to this nordics.info podcast if you are interested in finding out more about:

The traits of the Nordic Model;
Examples of policy successes and policy challenges in the Nordics;
The relationship between the Nordics and the EU;
The provision of universal services, like early years childcare in Denmark and Sweden.

Editor of nordics.info Nicola Witcombe interviews Caroline de la Porte, a European political economist and Professor at the Department of International Economics, Government and Business at Copenhagen Business School. This is the seventh virtual visit around the Nordic countries in the podcast series ’The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from the Region’ and was recorded in April 2021.

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Finland: Uncovering Nordic Myths of Homogeneity with Miika Tervonen

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Minorities in Finland;
Myths of homogeneity in the Nordics;
The politicising and categorising of minorities and migrants;
History-writing.

Miika Tervonen, Senior Research Fellow at the Migration Institute of Finland and Docent at the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki, helps editor of nordics.info Nicola Witcombe examine these issues, challenging commonly held assumptions about state, homogeneity and migration.
Learn more about the peoples, historians and other things mentioned this podcast by going to nordics.info.
This is the eighth virtual visit around the Nordic countries in the podcast series ’The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from the Region’.
Sounds from freesound.org including big_lorry_engine.aif by jacobsteel.