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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)
-Norwegian Network for Asian Studies
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 …
April 26, 2024
India Votes 2024
What is at stake at the 2024 Indian national elections? And, what can we expect if the incumbent prime minister Narendra Modi wins another five years …
April 12, 2024
Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants
What does the Miss Tibet beauty pageant tell us about what it means to be Tibetan in a globalized world? And what understandings of Tibetan culture do…
March 29, 2024
India’s Waste Problem
How is India tackling its persistent wage management problems? And, are new infrastructural solutions the way forward? In this episode, Kenneth Bo Nie…
March 15, 2024
Amber Worlds
What role do China and other Asian countries play in the global amber trade? And, what can we learn about the big challenges of our time by studying a…
March 1, 2024
Who owns Khadi?
Why did khadi become so central to India’s freedom struggle? How did it evolve into an international trademark – and what does khadi signify in India …
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 …
February 2, 2024
Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific
Is Kiribati in the American lake, Indo-Pacific or Chinese Pacific? In this Episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to Rodolfo Maggio, a senior researcher at …
January 19, 2024
Cross-Cultural Research on Gaming and “Gaming Disorder”
In 1998 the phrase “internet addiction” was first used to describe problematic prolonged internet use, and encompassed a wide range of online activiti…
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 22, 2023
Reading the Stars
What does astrology, palm-reading and fortune telling have to do with politics in Thailand, and how can we make sense of these divination practices an…
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…
December 8, 2023
Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan
Japan has historically maintained extended periods of isolationist policies and continues to uphold some of the strictest immigration laws in the worl…
December 1, 2023
Life after NIAS
In December 2023, more than five decades of institutionalized Nordic collaboration in the field of Asian studies will come to an end with the closure …
November 17, 2023
Sauna Culture in Japan
In 2020, Finland’s sauna culture was added to the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, …
November 3, 2023
Understanding Narendra Modi
Why do politicians write poems? And what does a politician’s poetry tell us about their leadership? In this episode, a collective of researchers from …
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…
September 29, 2023
Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea
Bubble tea, also known as pearl milk tea, boba or tapioca milk tea is a popular drink in Asia. Wherever there is Asian diaspora, such as in the USA, o…