Challenging Nordic Innocence – UiS podkast

Universitetet i Stavanger

This podcast series questions the idealized notion of the Nordic region as characterized by egalitarianism, environmentalism, and a benevolent welfare state through interviews with researchers and activists on social, environmental, and spatial justice. It’s a collaboration between the University of Stavanger’s Social and Spatial Justice research group and Copenhagen University’s Centre for Sustainable Futures.

  1. Jun 24

    Mental Oil Spills in Norway’s Oil Capital

    Oil is everywhere in Stavanger—highly visible, and yet also out of sight. In this episode of Challenging Nordic Innocence, we’re joined by Bjørk Tørnqvist to talk about “mental oil spills” and the petro-hegemonies shaping Norway’s oil capital. Drawing on participatory Les mer ...

  2. Apr 13

    Carbon Capture and the Political Capture of Nature in Iceland

    In this episode, we speak with anthropologist Cody Skahan about carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Iceland and the Nordic region. Drawing on fieldwork with environmental activists, scientists, and local communities, Cody explores how climate technologies like CCS are reshaping Les mer ...

  3. Jan 6

    Racial Capitalism, Temporal Dispossession, and the Politics of Asylum in Sweden

    What happens when we think of the Nordic welfare state not only as a protector of rights and social welfare, but also as a site of dispossession? In this episode of Challenging Nordic Innocence, we talk with Sarah Philipson Isaac Les mer ...

  4. 12/01/2025

    Afro Nordic Feminism – Theorising from our lives

    Afro Nordic Feminism is an emerging Black feminist project that centers on the experiences, knowledge, communities, and social justice organizing of people of African descent living in the Nordic Region. In this episode we discuss the approach with Oda-Kange Midtvåge Les mer ...

  5. 09/29/2025

    Normandsdalen: Art, Power and Materials in 18th Century Denmark-Norway

    Over the period 1764–84, King Frederik V established a sculpture park at Fredensborg Palace North of Copenhagen, with 70 statues of Norwegian, Sámi and Faroese people. In this episode, we speak with Professor Mathias Danbolt, art historian and lead researcher Les mer ...

  6. 09/11/2025

    Dissolving the Pill: Imagining the Birth Control Pill in Contemporary Denmark

    In this episode we are joined by Anne Nørkjær Bang –  a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark. This summer, Bang defended her dissertation titled “Dissolving the Pill: Imagining the Birth Control Pill in Contemporary Denmark” which interrogate Les mer ...

  7. 06/10/2025

    Colonial architecture in Greenland and the material politics of time

    In this episode we talk to Dr. Tone Huse about her article “Temporal displacement: colonial architecture and its contestation” where she explores and analyses the Danish state’s attempt to ‘modernize’ Kalaallit Nunaat (a.k.a. Greenland). She focuses on the technologies of Les mer ...

  8. 12/16/2024

    Chemical Pollution and Shadow Places in the Danish Welfare State

    This episode is a conversation between Anders Riel Müller 송연준, Signe Skjoldborg Breighel and Sebastian Lundsteen, departing from Lundsteen’s article “Shadow Places, Environmental Justice, and the Submergence of Pollution.”  The episode unpacks the several aspects and complexities of Shadow Places, Les mer ...

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This podcast series questions the idealized notion of the Nordic region as characterized by egalitarianism, environmentalism, and a benevolent welfare state through interviews with researchers and activists on social, environmental, and spatial justice. It’s a collaboration between the University of Stavanger’s Social and Spatial Justice research group and Copenhagen University’s Centre for Sustainable Futures.

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