Knowledge on the Nordics
Listen to researchers talk about the history, society and culture of the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the autonomous territories, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Åland). Mainly interviews and panel discussions, but also synopses of particular historical events and topics within the humanities and social sciences written by researchers and read out in one of the Nordic languages as well as English.
Knowledge on the Nordics
Finland: Uncovering Nordic Myths of Homogeneity with Miika Tervonen
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nordics.info
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Season 3
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Episode 8
Listen to this podcast if you are interested in finding out more about:
- 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.