Asta Smedegaard Nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4244707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asta Smedegaard Nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asta Smedegaard |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9197-1544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Race and Racialization in Nordic Elementary Education
This article examines the evolving discourse on race and racialization in Nordic elementary education research from 2010 to 2023. Over the past two decades, race has emerged as a critical analytical category in Nordic scholarship, reflected in a growing body of studies and academic conferences. The article first presents a quantitative overview of publication trends across Nordic countries, highlighting an increase in studies addressing racializa…
Compassionate celebritization
This article introduces the concept of compassionate celebritization as a framework for analyzing how Danish media reporting on a deportation case enacted a transformation of its subjects, a young child, and her mother, from deportable migrants to celebritized Danish citizens. I suggest that the reporting subjected the migrants to a process of celebritization premised on the affectivity of the white Danish public’s compassionate intervention in t…
White Danish Love as Affective Intervention
Through a close reading of media reporting from 2017 to 2018 on the case of the Chinese girl Liu Yiming, who was fi rst denied then granted residency in Denmark due to public pressure, this article analyses how regulation of family reunifi cation involving children is negotiated in the Danish public imaginary in the context of strong anti-immigration sentiments. This imaginary projects the white Danish public as eager to love Yiming and as aff ec…
Utøya rører dig i hjertet - om hvidhed, nationalisme og nordiskhed
From analyses of newscasts and interviews with journalists, the article studies how affective orientations in relation to the 22 July terror and its victims entail constant displacements of the represented ’us’. Through the affective work of mourning, compassion and disbelief it moves between representations of whiteness, Nordicness, Danishness/Norwegianness, and humanity in general. This involves strategies to ward off that a common white Nordic…
White Danish Love as Affective Intervention
Through a close reading of media reporting from 2017 to 2018 on the case of the Chinese girl Liu Yiming, who was fi rst denied then granted residency in Denmark due to public pressure, this article analyses how regulation of family reunifi cation involving children is negotiated in the Danish public imaginary in the context of strong anti-immigration sentiments. This imaginary projects the white Danish public as eager to love Yiming and as aff ec…
Utøya rører dig i hjertet - om hvidhed, nationalisme og nordiskhed
From analyses of newscasts and interviews with journalists, the article studies how affective orientations in relation to the 22 July terror and its victims entail constant displacements of the represented ’us’. Through the affective work of mourning, compassion and disbelief it moves between representations of whiteness, Nordicness, Danishness/Norwegianness, and humanity in general. This involves strategies to ward off that a common white Nordic…
White Danish Love as Affective Intervention
Through a close reading of media reporting from 2017 to 2018 on the case of the Chinese girl Liu Yiming, who was fi rst denied then granted residency in Denmark due to public pressure, this article analyses how regulation of family reunifi cation involving children is negotiated in the Danish public imaginary in the context of strong anti-immigration sentiments. This imaginary projects the white Danish public as eager to love Yiming and as aff ec…
Compassionate celebritization
This article introduces the concept of compassionate celebritization as a framework for analyzing how Danish media reporting on a deportation case enacted a transformation of its subjects, a young child, and her mother, from deportable migrants to celebritized Danish citizens. I suggest that the reporting subjected the migrants to a process of celebritization premised on the affectivity of the white Danish public’s compassionate intervention in t…
Race and Racialization in Nordic Elementary Education
This article examines the evolving discourse on race and racialization in Nordic elementary education research from 2010 to 2023. Over the past two decades, race has emerged as a critical analytical category in Nordic scholarship, reflected in a growing body of studies and academic conferences. The article first presents a quantitative overview of publication trends across Nordic countries, highlighting an increase in studies addressing racializa…
Sociology (4 works) · Danish (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Compassion (2 works) · Deportation (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Law (2 works)