The Nordic Asia Podcast

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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) -Norwegian Network for Asian Studies

Episode Date
India Votes 2024
Apr 26, 2024
Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants
Apr 12, 2024
India’s Waste Problem: A Discussion with Pamela Das
Mar 29, 2024
Amber Worlds: The Global Amber Trade in the China-Myanmar Borderlands
Mar 15, 2024
Who owns Khadi?
Mar 01, 2024
Risks of US-China Geoeconomic Rivalry
Feb 16, 2024
Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
Feb 02, 2024
Cross-Cultural Research on Gaming and “Gaming Disorder”
Jan 19, 2024
China’s Environmental Footprint in Ghana: Non-State Responses
Jan 05, 2024
Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan
Dec 29, 2023
Reading the Stars: When Divination Meets Politics in Thailand
Dec 22, 2023
Between Jesus and Krishna: Christian Encounters with South Indian Temple Dance
Dec 15, 2023
Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan: From Historical Background to Current Policies
Dec 08, 2023
Life after NIAS: A Conversation on the Closure of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Dec 01, 2023
Sauna Culture in Japan
Nov 17, 2023
Understanding Narendra Modi: The Poetry of a Populist Leader
Nov 04, 2023
Cleric, Cadre, Businessman: China’s Development Strategy in Sri Lanka
Oct 20, 2023
India, Asia, and the Global South
Oct 06, 2023
Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea
Sep 29, 2023
Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 22, 2023
Development and Migration in Contemporary Asia
Sep 15, 2023
Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Sep 09, 2023
Digital Repression in Thailand
Sep 01, 2023
Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years
Aug 26, 2023
Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia
Aug 18, 2023
Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
Aug 11, 2023
Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia
Aug 04, 2023
India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa
Jul 28, 2023
Helen Ting M. H. and Donald L. Horowitz, "Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia" (NIAS, 2022)
Jul 21, 2023
Ethnicity and Nation-Building in Myanmar
Jul 14, 2023
Hindu Nationalism and Lower Caste Politics
Jul 07, 2023
Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: A Clash of Identities?
Jun 30, 2023
Global India: The Pursuit of Influence and Status
Jun 23, 2023
Can Thailand Move Forward?
Jun 16, 2023
Creating Sustainable Value in Social Enterprises in Philippines
Jun 09, 2023
Brantly Womack, "Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 02, 2023
Neither Friend nor Enemy: Sweden-North Korea Relations
May 26, 2023
The Politics of Community-Making in New Urban India
May 18, 2023
China's Green Consensus: A Discussion with Virginie Arantes
May 12, 2023
NIAS Press: Riding the Digital Storm
May 05, 2023
Aspired Communities, Contested Futures: Long-Term Recovery after the 3.11 Disaster in Japan
Apr 28, 2023
The Promise of Multispecies Justice
Apr 21, 2023
Slum Tourism and Affective Economy in Delhi, India
Apr 14, 2023
Visibility as Threat: The Targeting of Micro-Sized Groups in Indonesia
Apr 07, 2023
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh
Mar 31, 2023
The Great Goa Land Grab
Mar 24, 2023
Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon
Mar 18, 2023
Arve Hansen, "Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life" (Springer, 2022)
Mar 10, 2023
The Iko-Project: A Japanese Project on Intercultural Understanding Education
Mar 03, 2023
Joshua Kurlantzick, "Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 24, 2023
Challenging the Malayan Nationhood: Imaginations and Activism by the Peranakan Chinese
Feb 17, 2023
The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US
Feb 10, 2023
Broken Pathways: Women’s Political Leadership in Sri Lanka
Feb 03, 2023
Myanmar Jewellers in China
Jan 27, 2023
Surviving the State: Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar
Jan 20, 2023
Malaysia’s GE15: Reflections on a Snap Election
Jan 13, 2023
Between the Streets and the Assembly: South Korean Social Movements before and after Democratization
Jan 06, 2023
Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Lord Parshuram
Dec 30, 2022
Annuska Derks et al. "Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands" (NIAS Press, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022
“This Claim has been Fact Checked”: A Glimpse into Fact Checking in India
Dec 16, 2022
David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown, "People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Dec 09, 2022
Transforming Journalism in Vietnam: An Exploration of Two Swedish Media Aid Projects
Dec 02, 2022
The Assassination and Legacy of Shinzo Abe
Nov 25, 2022
Towards a Green China
Nov 18, 2022
U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?
Nov 11, 2022
Cornelia Baciu, "Civil-Military Relations and Global Security Governance: Strategy, Hybrid Orders and the Case of Pakistan" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 04, 2022
Political Deification in South Asia
Oct 28, 2022
Reflections on Chinese Sexuality: A Conversation with Weiyi Hu
Oct 21, 2022
Maria Adele Carrai and Jennifer Rudolph, "The China Questions 2: Critical Insights Into US-China Relations" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022
U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part One, Roots
Oct 07, 2022
Beyond Meat? Dietary Shifts and Meat Contestations in China, India and Vietnam
Sep 30, 2022
"Riding the Wild Horse in Chinese Literature”: Translation and Research on "Jin Ping Mei"
Sep 23, 2022
Transcendence and Sustainability: Asian Visions with Global Promise
Sep 16, 2022
Chinese Outbound Tourism: Leisure or Political Tool?
Sep 09, 2022
Triumph for Independent Candidates? Observations on the 2022 Local Elections in Nepal
Sep 02, 2022
Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere, "Global China as Method" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022
Temperatures on the Rise: Adapting to Heat Extremes in South Asia
Aug 19, 2022
Podcasting Academic Research: A Chat about the Nordic Asia Podcast
Aug 12, 2022
China’s Role in the Future of Green Energy
Aug 05, 2022
The Implications of the Ukrainian War for Taiwan’s Relations with China
Aug 01, 2022
Indonesia’s Response to the War in Ukraine
Jul 29, 2022
Japanese Immigration and the Korean Minority
Jul 22, 2022
Publishing in Asian Studies Journals
Jul 15, 2022
Finnish Maritime Interaction with China in the 18th Century
Jul 08, 2022
The Struggle for Hong Kong: A Conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Jul 01, 2022
Japan’s Reaction to Russia’s War in Ukraine
Jun 24, 2022
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson, "Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted" (NIAS Press, 2022)
Jun 20, 2022
Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics
Jun 17, 2022
What Happened to the Farm Law Movement?
Jun 10, 2022
Popular Demand for Strongman Rule? Reflections on the 2022 Philippine Election
Jun 06, 2022
The Forgotten Children of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Jun 03, 2022
The Race for the Governor: Talking Bangkok Elections with Saksith Saiyasombut
May 30, 2022
Jonathan Fulton, "Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations" (Routledge, 2021)
May 27, 2022
The “Post-Abe” era, Japan under Fumio Kishida with Paul Midford
May 23, 2022
Ethnographic Perspectives on Change and Continuity in China
May 20, 2022
The New Political Cry in South Korea?: The History of Feminist Activisms and Politics in South Korea
May 13, 2022
Covid-19 Nationalism in China and Lessons from the Pandemic
May 09, 2022
Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann, "Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond" (NIAS Press, 2021)
May 06, 2022
The Future of Japanese Studies
Apr 29, 2022
What Remains: Textiles from Tuol Sleng
Apr 22, 2022
Merging the Local with the Global: A Conversation with a Malaysian Youth Climate Advocate
Apr 18, 2022
Timor-Leste Elections: José Ramos-Horta in Conversation with Amber Woortman
Apr 15, 2022
India’s Ukrainian Dilemma
Apr 11, 2022
Why Is Eileen Gu the New Poster Child in China?
Apr 08, 2022
Urban Climate Change and Adaptation: Messages from the IPCC Report for Southeast Asia
Apr 04, 2022
Arild Engelsen Ruud and Mubashar Hasan, "Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Apr 01, 2022
The Security Dilemma in the Korean Peninsula: Foreign Policy of Yoon Seok-youl, the Incoming President of South Korea
Mar 28, 2022
China’s International Relations and the Ukraine Crisis
Mar 25, 2022
Understanding Timor-Leste's 2022 Presidential Elections
Mar 21, 2022
Democratic Backsliding in Sri Lanka
Mar 18, 2022
India's Five State Elections and their Implications
Mar 14, 2022
Excluded from Society and Rights: The Experiences of Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border
Mar 11, 2022
Thai Totalitarians? Why the Love of Authoritarian Symbols?
Mar 04, 2022
The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan
Feb 28, 2022
Mythopolitics in South Asia
Feb 25, 2022
Understanding Authoritarianism: Deepening Autocratization, Dynamic Dictatorships, and China
Feb 21, 2022
Love-Jihad and the Politics of Hindu Nationalist Statecraft
Feb 18, 2022
Jun Liu, "Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 11, 2022
The Politics of Protest in Myanmar, with Van Tran
Feb 04, 2022
Motorbike Madness in Vietnam, with Hue-Tam Jamme
Jan 28, 2022
Heidi Wang-Kaeding, "China's Environmental Foreign Relations" (Routledge, 2021)
Jan 21, 2022
Heritage, Humour and Regional Identity in Goa
Jan 14, 2022
Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam: Between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression
Jan 10, 2022
COVID-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan
Jan 07, 2022
East Asian Cold War History with a Maritime Twist
Dec 27, 2021
Understanding South Korea’s Taegukgi Rallies
Dec 20, 2021
Overseas Remittances in Vietnam’s Reform Era
Dec 17, 2021
Autocratization in South Asia
Dec 13, 2021
The #MeToo Movement in China and the Case of Tennis Star Peng Shuai
Dec 10, 2021
COP26 from a Southeast Asian Perspective
Dec 06, 2021
Rethinking China's Humanitarian Diplomacy before and during Covid-19
Dec 03, 2021
‘Network Monarchy’ and Its Challengers: Making Sense of Thai Politics with Duncan McCargo
Nov 26, 2021
Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking
Nov 19, 2021
In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South - Implications for the North
Nov 12, 2021
Bertil Lintner, "The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest For Global Dominance" (NIAS Press, 2021)
Nov 05, 2021
Giuseppe Bolotta, "Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok's Margins" (NIAS, 2021)
Oct 29, 2021
The Modi Wave: Politics of the Pandemic in India
Oct 22, 2021
Beyond a Shadow: Southeast Asia Transcending US-China Rivalries
Oct 15, 2021
Sharing Scholarship: Academic Publishing and Teaching Tibetan Buddhism in Finland
Oct 08, 2021
Elaine Yuan, "The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Oct 01, 2021
The Turbulence and Controversies of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission, with Sofie Schütte
Sep 24, 2021
Outgoing Prime Minister Suga and Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
Sep 20, 2021
Chris Chaplin, "Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and National Identity in Contemporary Indonesia" (NIAS Press, 2021)
Sep 17, 2021
Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia
Sep 10, 2021
Camelia Dewan, "Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Sep 03, 2021
Pandemic Precarity and the Livelihoods of Migrant Workers in China and Cambodia
Aug 27, 2021
A European Perspective on the Indo-Pacific: A Conversation with Camilla Sørensen
Aug 20, 2021
Karen Sanctuaries: Memory, Biodiversity and Political Sovereignty
Aug 13, 2021
Nina Trige Andersen, "Labor Pioneers: Economy, Labor, and Migration in Filipino-Danish Relations, 1950-2015" (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2019)
Aug 06, 2021
Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication: Understanding Asia in Pandemic Times
Jul 30, 2021
The Renewable Energy Revolution in East Asia and the Nordics
Jul 26, 2021
Popular Protests in the Age of #MilkTeaAlliance
Jul 23, 2021
China's New Data Security Law and Cyber Sovereignty with Rogier Creemers
Jul 16, 2021
Aase J. Kvanneid, "Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account" (Routledge, 2021)
Jul 12, 2021
Christian Lund, "Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jul 09, 2021
Papermaking Traditions, East and West: A Discussion with Timo Särkkä
Jul 05, 2021
The State of the Hong Kong Labor Movement: A Discussion with Bill Taylor
Jul 02, 2021
Remembering President Noynoy Aquino: A Discussion with Sheila Coronel
Jun 28, 2021
Business as Usual? International Responses to the Military Coup in Myanmar
Jun 25, 2021
In China’s Shadow: China and Southeast Asia
Jun 21, 2021
Ecological Civilization: Chinese Dream or Global Strategy?
Jun 18, 2021
William A. Callahan, "Sensible Politics: Visualizing International Relations" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 14, 2021
Photography and Human Rights in Thailand: A Discussion with Karin Zackari
Jun 11, 2021
The Politics of Chinese Media: A Discussion with Bingchun Meng
Jun 07, 2021
Women Singer-Songwriters of 1970s Japan: A Discussion with Lasse Lehtonen
Jun 04, 2021
Myanmar’s Failed Coup: A Roundtable Discussion
May 31, 2021
Dictatorship on Trial in Thailand: A Discussion with Tyrell Haberkorn
May 28, 2021
Between China and Denmark: A Discussion with Jørgen Delman
May 24, 2021
How China Loses: A Discussion with Luke Patey
May 17, 2021
Making Sense of the West Bengal Elections
May 10, 2021
The Politics of Online News in Cambodia
May 03, 2021
Thai Student Protests Past and Present with Thongchai Winichakul
Apr 26, 2021
Thailand's New Political Generation with Duncan McCargo - Forward to the Future?
Mar 26, 2021
Myanmar After the Coup with Kristian Stokke and Marte Nilsen
Mar 22, 2021
The state of regional connectivity between China and Southeast Asia with Xiangming Chen
Mar 19, 2021
Market-Leninism in Vietnam with Jonathan London
Mar 12, 2021
Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits in Laos with Rosalie Stolz
Mar 05, 2021
Biden and Asia: What lies ahead
Feb 26, 2021
Modi - the Sage King?
Feb 22, 2021
K-Pop and the Korean Wave with Jimmyn Parc
Feb 19, 2021
'Confucianism' and China with Jyrki Kallio
Feb 04, 2021
Citizenship in a Caste Polity with Jason Keith Fernandes
Jan 29, 2021
India - Economy and Politics in a Lockdown Nation with Alf Nilsen
Jan 21, 2021
Thailand's Rice Politics with Jacob Ricks
Jan 20, 2021
Farmers’ protests in India with Stig Toft Madsen
Jan 13, 2021
Sports Events, Nation Building and City Politics in Indonesia with Friederike Trotier
Dec 23, 2020
State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam with Edyta Roszko
Dec 18, 2020
Japan After Abe with Paul Midford and Dick Stegewerns
Dec 04, 2020
Early Twentieth Century Japanese Film Industry with Stephen Ranger
Nov 22, 2020
Gender, Resistance and Transnational Memories of Violent Conflicts with Pauline Stoltz
Nov 20, 2020
Japanese Civil Society: Responding to COVID -19 at Home and Abroad with Kamila Szczepanska and Yoko Demelius
Nov 15, 2020
Creative Engagement in Urban Spaces of East Asia with Minna Valjakka
Nov 13, 2020
American Imperialism, Thai Scholarship and Buddhist Cosmology with Matthew Phillips
Nov 11, 2020
Japanese Food and Food Packaging with Katarzyna Cwiertka
Nov 06, 2020
Why TikTok still matters with Hermann Aubié
Nov 01, 2020
Japan's Leadership in East Asian Security with Paul Midford
Oct 30, 2020
Information control in China with Hermann Aubié
Sep 16, 2020
Hidden Histories of Thai Nuns with Martin Seeger
Aug 28, 2020
The Politics of Branding Kazakhstan and Qatar with Kristin Eggeling
Aug 10, 2020
Ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia with Lucrezia Canzutti
Jul 23, 2020
Buddhism and Constitutional Change in Thailand with Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang
Jul 17, 2020
Everyday Justice in Myanmar with Helene Maria Kyed
Jul 12, 2020
Malaysia's Messy Politics with Bridget Welsh
Jul 10, 2020
China-Finland Relations with Jyrki Kallio
Jul 06, 2020
China-Sweden Relations with Björn Jerdén
Jun 26, 2020
Waiting for Corona in India with Marjaana Jauhola and Shyam Gadhavi
Jun 19, 2020
China-Norway Relations with Henrik Stålhane Hiim
Jun 17, 2020
Money politics in Southeast Asia with Allen Hicken
Jun 14, 2020
Lockdown in India with Sirpa Tenhunen and Jelena Salmi
Jun 11, 2020
Impacts of Covid-19 on Japanese society with Kamila Szczepanska and Yoko Demelius
Jun 05, 2020
Migrant labour and care with Megha Amrith
May 31, 2020
China and the global economy with Mikael Mattlin
May 25, 2020
Thailand’s Politically Less Privileged People with Saowanee Alexander
May 24, 2020
Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh with Arild Ruud
May 21, 2020
Epidemic Management in China with Lauri Paltemaa
May 14, 2020
Following Future Forward with Aim Sinpeng
May 14, 2020
The Global Sushi Hype with Tine Walravens
May 10, 2020
Branding Post-Coup Thailand with Petra Desatova
May 04, 2020
China-Denmark Relations with Andreas Bøje Forsby
Apr 28, 2020
South Korean Elections with Sabine Burghart
Apr 24, 2020