‘We must be happy that times are different now’: Shaping public memory of Danish colonial history in popular culture.
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‘We must be happy that times are different now’ : Shaping public memory of Danish colonial history in popular culture. / Villadsen, Lisa S.; Therkildsen, Louise Therese Schou.
I: National Identities, 09.07.2024.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - ‘We must be happy that times are different now’
T2 - Shaping public memory of Danish colonial history in popular culture.
AU - Villadsen, Lisa S.
AU - Therkildsen, Louise Therese Schou
PY - 2024/7/9
Y1 - 2024/7/9
N2 - In recent years Denmark’s legacy as a colonial power has become a topic of political, cultural, and public debate. The article discusses how Denmark’s colonial relationship with Greenland is presented to a contemporary Danish audience in the film, The Experiment (2010), and in the fourth season of the TV drama, Borgen (2022). These popular cultural artefacts, we claim, not only reflect, but have informed public and political debate in Denmark about its colonial past, including historical and present-day civic norms and their implementation into political practice. In this way, they have contributed to a renegotiation of public morality and memory.
AB - In recent years Denmark’s legacy as a colonial power has become a topic of political, cultural, and public debate. The article discusses how Denmark’s colonial relationship with Greenland is presented to a contemporary Danish audience in the film, The Experiment (2010), and in the fourth season of the TV drama, Borgen (2022). These popular cultural artefacts, we claim, not only reflect, but have informed public and political debate in Denmark about its colonial past, including historical and present-day civic norms and their implementation into political practice. In this way, they have contributed to a renegotiation of public morality and memory.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Official apologies
KW - Greenland
KW - Public memory
KW - Popular Culture
KW - Borgen
KW - The Experiment
U2 - 10.1080/14608944.2024.2340503
DO - 10.1080/14608944.2024.2340503
M3 - Journal article
JO - National Identities
JF - National Identities
SN - 1460-8944
ER -
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