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The Nordic Asia Podcast — 285 episodes
China Office of Finnish Industries
The MANTRAMS Project and Digital Mantra Research: A Discussion with Borayin Larios
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authoritarianism in Asia and Beyond
Spirituality, Science and Environmentalism in Taiwan
Chinese EVs: From Nordic Streets to Central Asian Hubs
Christian Environmentalism in a Hindu Majoritarian Context
Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan
Media, Power, and the Gaza Narrative
Beyond Minorities: Power, Identity, and Conflict in the Middle East
Through the Lens of Taiwan: Film, History, and Identity
The Shawshank Redemption in China: An Interview with Matti Lehtonen
The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout
Gods and the State: Environmental Change in the Blang Mountains, China
Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai
Good and Bad Palm Oil: Food Security, Paradigm Shift and Stakeholder Negotiations in Indonesia and the EU
Competing Visions for International Order
China’s Climate and Air Quality Governance and EU-China Cooperation
Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan
Re-examining the Women’s Movement in Cold War South Korea and Beyond
Tourism and a Kyoto in Flux: A Conversation with Dr. Chiara Rita Napolitano
Machiya, Seikatsu Bunka, and Changing Domestic Culture in the Japanese Urban Environment
Strings of Identity: The Horse-Head Fiddle and Mongolian Identity in China (with Ying Song)
AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age: A conversation with Dr. Joanne Kuai
Hindutva and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India
Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India
Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India
Rivals in a Tight Embrace Russia, China, and the Central Asian Chessboard
Gen Z Uprising: Youth, Protest and Political Change in Nepal
Localisation of Islamic Arts in Malaysia
Chile’s Growing Interests in China
Iban Heritage and Culture in Malaysia
Preserving Traditional Rice and Rice Culture in the Philippines
Kampung Activism in Indonesia
Chinese Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law – a Conversation with Dr. Martin Lavicka
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre: Migration Policies and Realities in Estonia and Japan
Malaysian-Nordic Relations
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre Kashmir Crisis: The India-Pakistan Blame Game?
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre China's Psychological Power
Lines of Control: India’s Foreign Policy and China
Political Mythmaking in Nepal
Studying Myanmar in Times of Crises
Queering the Asian Diaspora
India in the Global Attention Economy
Social Death by Debt: China's Lending Boom Reshapes Lives
Nordic Style on Chinese Social Media: Misinformation, Consumerism, and Digital Discourse
Finlandization to ‘Finland Boom‘ in Japan: Finland’s Public Diplomacy in Japan
India’s Land Mafia: A Discussion with Chiara Arnavas
Willingness for climate action in South Korea and Finland: A cross-cultural comparison
China and the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Global Implications
Threats to Academic Freedom in Thailand
Meanings of Identity of the Post-2000s Inland Tibet Class
Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History
Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State
Tone Bleie, "A New Testament: Scandinavian Missionaries and Santal Chiefs from Company and British Crown Rule to Independence" (Solum Bokvennen, 2023)
The Relations of Estonia and Japan from the 19th Century to the early-21st Century
The Dragon and the Nguzunguzu
The Dragonbear in the Geopolitics of the 21st Century
Sino-Pacific Relations: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
Souvik Mukherjee, "Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Living with Digital Surveillance in China
The Religious Landscape of Taiwan: A Discussion with Yushuang Yao
Manisha Anantharaman, "Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2024)
Asian Soft Power in Estonia: A Discussion with Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska
South Korea after the 2024 Parliamentary Elections
India Votes 2024
Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants
India’s Waste Problem: A Discussion with Pamela Das
Amber Worlds: The Global Amber Trade in the China-Myanmar Borderlands
Who owns Khadi?
Risks of US-China Geoeconomic Rivalry
Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
Cross-Cultural Research on Gaming and “Gaming Disorder”
China’s Environmental Footprint in Ghana: Non-State Responses
Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan
Reading the Stars: When Divination Meets Politics in Thailand
Between Jesus and Krishna: Christian Encounters with South Indian Temple Dance
Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan: From Historical Background to Current Policies
Life after NIAS: A Conversation on the Closure of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Sauna Culture in Japan
Understanding Narendra Modi: The Poetry of a Populist Leader
Cleric, Cadre, Businessman: China’s Development Strategy in Sri Lanka
India, Asia, and the Global South
Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea
Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Development and Migration in Contemporary Asia
Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Digital Repression in Thailand
Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years
Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia
Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia
India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa
Helen Ting M. H. and Donald L. Horowitz, "Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia" (NIAS, 2022)
Ethnicity and Nation-Building in Myanmar
Hindu Nationalism and Lower Caste Politics
Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: A Clash of Identities?
Global India: The Pursuit of Influence and Status
Can Thailand Move Forward?
Creating Sustainable Value in Social Enterprises in Philippines
Brantly Womack, "Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Neither Friend nor Enemy: Sweden-North Korea Relations
The Politics of Community-Making in New Urban India
China's Green Consensus: A Discussion with Virginie Arantes
NIAS Press: Riding the Digital Storm
Aspired Communities, Contested Futures: Long-Term Recovery after the 3.11 Disaster in Japan
The Promise of Multispecies Justice
Slum Tourism and Affective Economy in Delhi, India
Visibility as Threat: The Targeting of Micro-Sized Groups in Indonesia
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh
The Great Goa Land Grab
Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon
Arve Hansen, "Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life" (Springer, 2022)
The Iko-Project: A Japanese Project on Intercultural Understanding Education
Joshua Kurlantzick, "Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Challenging the Malayan Nationhood: Imaginations and Activism by the Peranakan Chinese
The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US
Broken Pathways: Women’s Political Leadership in Sri Lanka
Myanmar Jewellers in China
Surviving the State: Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar
Malaysia’s GE15: Reflections on a Snap Election
Between the Streets and the Assembly: South Korean Social Movements before and after Democratization
Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Lord Parshuram
Annuska Derks et al. "Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands" (NIAS Press, 2022)
“This Claim has been Fact Checked”: A Glimpse into Fact Checking in India
David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown, "People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Transforming Journalism in Vietnam: An Exploration of Two Swedish Media Aid Projects
The Assassination and Legacy of Shinzo Abe
Towards a Green China
U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?
Cornelia Baciu, "Civil-Military Relations and Global Security Governance: Strategy, Hybrid Orders and the Case of Pakistan" (Routledge, 2022)
Political Deification in South Asia
Reflections on Chinese Sexuality: A Conversation with Weiyi Hu
Maria Adele Carrai and Jennifer Rudolph, "The China Questions 2: Critical Insights Into US-China Relations" (Harvard UP, 2022)
U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part One, Roots
Beyond Meat? Dietary Shifts and Meat Contestations in China, India and Vietnam
"Riding the Wild Horse in Chinese Literature”: Translation and Research on "Jin Ping Mei"
Transcendence and Sustainability: Asian Visions with Global Promise
Chinese Outbound Tourism: Leisure or Political Tool?
Triumph for Independent Candidates? Observations on the 2022 Local Elections in Nepal
Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere, "Global China as Method" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Temperatures on the Rise: Adapting to Heat Extremes in South Asia
Podcasting Academic Research: A Chat about the Nordic Asia Podcast
China’s Role in the Future of Green Energy
The Implications of the Ukrainian War for Taiwan’s Relations with China
Indonesia’s Response to the War in Ukraine
Japanese Immigration and the Korean Minority
Publishing in Asian Studies Journals
Finnish Maritime Interaction with China in the 18th Century
The Struggle for Hong Kong: A Conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Japan’s Reaction to Russia’s War in Ukraine
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson, "Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted" (NIAS Press, 2022)
Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics
What Happened to the Farm Law Movement?
Popular Demand for Strongman Rule? Reflections on the 2022 Philippine Election
The Forgotten Children of the Second Sino-Japanese War
The Race for the Governor: Talking Bangkok Elections with Saksith Saiyasombut
Jonathan Fulton, "Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations" (Routledge, 2021)
The “Post-Abe” era, Japan under Fumio Kishida with Paul Midford
Ethnographic Perspectives on Change and Continuity in China
The New Political Cry in South Korea?: The History of Feminist Activisms and Politics in South Korea
Covid-19 Nationalism in China and Lessons from the Pandemic
Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann, "Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond" (NIAS Press, 2021)
The Future of Japanese Studies
What Remains: Textiles from Tuol Sleng
Merging the Local with the Global: A Conversation with a Malaysian Youth Climate Advocate
Timor-Leste Elections: José Ramos-Horta in Conversation with Amber Woortman
India’s Ukrainian Dilemma
Why Is Eileen Gu the New Poster Child in China?
Urban Climate Change and Adaptation: Messages from the IPCC Report for Southeast Asia
Arild Engelsen Ruud and Mubashar Hasan, "Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
The Security Dilemma in the Korean Peninsula: Foreign Policy of Yoon Seok-youl, the Incoming President of South Korea
China’s International Relations and the Ukraine Crisis
Understanding Timor-Leste's 2022 Presidential Elections
Democratic Backsliding in Sri Lanka
India's Five State Elections and their Implications
Excluded from Society and Rights: The Experiences of Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border
Thai Totalitarians? Why the Love of Authoritarian Symbols?
The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan
Mythopolitics in South Asia
Understanding Authoritarianism: Deepening Autocratization, Dynamic Dictatorships, and China
Love-Jihad and the Politics of Hindu Nationalist Statecraft
Jun Liu, "Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China" (Oxford UP, 2020)
The Politics of Protest in Myanmar, with Van Tran
Motorbike Madness in Vietnam, with Hue-Tam Jamme
Heidi Wang-Kaeding, "China's Environmental Foreign Relations" (Routledge, 2021)
Heritage, Humour and Regional Identity in Goa
Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam: Between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression
COVID-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan
East Asian Cold War History with a Maritime Twist
Understanding South Korea’s Taegukgi Rallies
Overseas Remittances in Vietnam’s Reform Era
Autocratization in South Asia
The #MeToo Movement in China and the Case of Tennis Star Peng Shuai
COP26 from a Southeast Asian Perspective
Rethinking China's Humanitarian Diplomacy before and during Covid-19
‘Network Monarchy’ and Its Challengers: Making Sense of Thai Politics with Duncan McCargo
Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking
In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South - Implications for the North
Bertil Lintner, "The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest For Global Dominance" (NIAS Press, 2021)
Giuseppe Bolotta, "Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok's Margins" (NIAS, 2021)
The Modi Wave: Politics of the Pandemic in India
Beyond a Shadow: Southeast Asia Transcending US-China Rivalries
Sharing Scholarship: Academic Publishing and Teaching Tibetan Buddhism in Finland
Elaine Yuan, "The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
The Turbulence and Controversies of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission, with Sofie Schütte
Outgoing Prime Minister Suga and Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
Chris Chaplin, "Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and National Identity in Contemporary Indonesia" (NIAS Press, 2021)
Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia
Camelia Dewan, "Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Pandemic Precarity and the Livelihoods of Migrant Workers in China and Cambodia
A European Perspective on the Indo-Pacific: A Conversation with Camilla Sørensen
Karen Sanctuaries: Memory, Biodiversity and Political Sovereignty
Nina Trige Andersen, "Labor Pioneers: Economy, Labor, and Migration in Filipino-Danish Relations, 1950-2015" (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2019)
Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication: Understanding Asia in Pandemic Times
The Renewable Energy Revolution in East Asia and the Nordics
Popular Protests in the Age of #MilkTeaAlliance
China's New Data Security Law and Cyber Sovereignty with Rogier Creemers
Aase J. Kvanneid, "Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account" (Routledge, 2021)
Christian Lund, "Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia" (Yale UP, 2021)
Papermaking Traditions, East and West: A Discussion with Timo Särkkä
The State of the Hong Kong Labor Movement: A Discussion with Bill Taylor
Remembering President Noynoy Aquino: A Discussion with Sheila Coronel
Business as Usual? International Responses to the Military Coup in Myanmar
In China’s Shadow: China and Southeast Asia
Ecological Civilization: Chinese Dream or Global Strategy?
William A. Callahan, "Sensible Politics: Visualizing International Relations" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Photography and Human Rights in Thailand: A Discussion with Karin Zackari
The Politics of Chinese Media: A Discussion with Bingchun Meng
Women Singer-Songwriters of 1970s Japan: A Discussion with Lasse Lehtonen
Myanmar’s Failed Coup: A Roundtable Discussion
Dictatorship on Trial in Thailand: A Discussion with Tyrell Haberkorn
Between China and Denmark: A Discussion with Jørgen Delman
How China Loses: A Discussion with Luke Patey
Making Sense of the West Bengal Elections
The Politics of Online News in Cambodia
Thai Student Protests Past and Present with Thongchai Winichakul
Thailand's New Political Generation with Duncan McCargo - Forward to the Future?
Myanmar After the Coup with Kristian Stokke and Marte Nilsen
The state of regional connectivity between China and Southeast Asia with Xiangming Chen
Market-Leninism in Vietnam with Jonathan London
Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits in Laos with Rosalie Stolz
Biden and Asia: What lies ahead
Modi - the Sage King?
K-Pop and the Korean Wave with Jimmyn Parc
'Confucianism' and China with Jyrki Kallio
Citizenship in a Caste Polity with Jason Keith Fernandes
India - Economy and Politics in a Lockdown Nation with Alf Nilsen
Thailand's Rice Politics with Jacob Ricks
Farmers’ protests in India with Stig Toft Madsen
Sports Events, Nation Building and City Politics in Indonesia with Friederike Trotier
State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam with Edyta Roszko
Japan After Abe with Paul Midford and Dick Stegewerns
Early Twentieth Century Japanese Film Industry with Stephen Ranger
Gender, Resistance and Transnational Memories of Violent Conflicts with Pauline Stoltz
Japanese Civil Society: Responding to COVID -19 at Home and Abroad with Kamila Szczepanska and Yoko Demelius
Creative Engagement in Urban Spaces of East Asia with Minna Valjakka
American Imperialism, Thai Scholarship and Buddhist Cosmology with Matthew Phillips
Japanese Food and Food Packaging with Katarzyna Cwiertka
Why TikTok still matters with Hermann Aubié
Japan's Leadership in East Asian Security with Paul Midford
Information control in China with Hermann Aubié
Hidden Histories of Thai Nuns with Martin Seeger
The Politics of Branding Kazakhstan and Qatar with Kristin Eggeling
Ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia with Lucrezia Canzutti
Buddhism and Constitutional Change in Thailand with Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang
Everyday Justice in Myanmar with Helene Maria Kyed
Malaysia's Messy Politics with Bridget Welsh
China-Finland Relations with Jyrki Kallio
China-Sweden Relations with Björn Jerdén
Waiting for Corona in India with Marjaana Jauhola and Shyam Gadhavi
China-Norway Relations with Henrik Stålhane Hiim
Money politics in Southeast Asia with Allen Hicken
Lockdown in India with Sirpa Tenhunen and Jelena Salmi
Impacts of Covid-19 on Japanese society with Kamila Szczepanska and Yoko Demelius
Migrant labour and care with Megha Amrith
China and the global economy with Mikael Mattlin
Thailand’s Politically Less Privileged People with Saowanee Alexander
Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh with Arild Ruud
Epidemic Management in China with Lauri Paltemaa
Following Future Forward with Aim Sinpeng
The Global Sushi Hype with Tine Walravens
Branding Post-Coup Thailand with Petra Desatova
China-Denmark Relations with Andreas Bøje Forsby
South Korean Elections with Sabine Burghart