Niels Nyegaard
Biographic Data
| ID | 6480749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niels Nyegaard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niels |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyegaard |
| SIGNATURE | NYEGAARD N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8777-2366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ethics in history
The article argues that historical research is an inherently ethical endeavor: It intervenes in contemporary society by engendering new understandings of its past, thus affecting individual and collective imaginaries of society’s current situation and possible futures. This calls for ethical considerations at every step in the research process, from the identification of a topic to the production and dissemination of a historical narrative. While…
Legal Liberation Through Relegation to the Home
This study discusses the legal liberations of sexual liaisons between men that took place in Norway and Denmark in the early decades of the twentieth century. Researchers have tended to align the liberalizations with processes of social change and modernization, attributing special importance to the introduction of new scientific understandings of same-sex desire. Building on analyses of penal code drafts, bills, and parliamentary minutes, the ar…
Queerteoretiske potentialer og dissonanser
At skrive queer historie
The article examines how queer theory has affected research on Danish gender and sexuality history from the year 2000 and up until today. The article does so by pursuing two analytical objectives. First, the article identifies a series of significant elements within queer theory as a theoretical framework. The article categorises the elements as: 1) an anti-essentialist point of departure, 2) a critical view on the normal, and 3) an opposition ag…
Special Issue on Nordic LGBTQ histories
Special Issue on Nordic LGBTQ histories." NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 29(3), pp. 229–230
Heteronormative Foundations of Modern Citizenship in Early-twentieth-century Denmark
During 1906–1907 the Great Morality Scandal shocked Copenhagen’s general public by disclosing a handful of respectable bourgeois men as secret homosexuals. This article examines how the city’s working-class newspapers attempted to politicize the scandal by questioning the bourgeoisie’s privileged citizen status on the grounds of their supposed homosexuality, and by claiming that the partly disenfranchised working classes were worthy of full citiz…
Heteronormative Foundations of Modern Citizenship in Early-twentieth-century Denmark
During 1906–1907 the Great Morality Scandal shocked Copenhagen’s general public by disclosing a handful of respectable bourgeois men as secret homosexuals. This article examines how the city’s working-class newspapers attempted to politicize the scandal by questioning the bourgeoisie’s privileged citizen status on the grounds of their supposed homosexuality, and by claiming that the partly disenfranchised working classes were worthy of full citiz…
Heteronormative Foundations of Modern Citizenship in Early-twentieth-century Denmark
During 1906–1907 the Great Morality Scandal shocked Copenhagen’s general public by disclosing a handful of respectable bourgeois men as secret homosexuals. This article examines how the city’s working-class newspapers attempted to politicize the scandal by questioning the bourgeoisie’s privileged citizen status on the grounds of their supposed homosexuality, and by claiming that the partly disenfranchised working classes were worthy of full citiz…
At skrive queer historie
The article examines how queer theory has affected research on Danish gender and sexuality history from the year 2000 and up until today. The article does so by pursuing two analytical objectives. First, the article identifies a series of significant elements within queer theory as a theoretical framework. The article categorises the elements as: 1) an anti-essentialist point of departure, 2) a critical view on the normal, and 3) an opposition ag…
Special Issue on Nordic LGBTQ histories
Special Issue on Nordic LGBTQ histories." NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 29(3), pp. 229–230
Queerteoretiske potentialer og dissonanser
Ethics in history
The article argues that historical research is an inherently ethical endeavor: It intervenes in contemporary society by engendering new understandings of its past, thus affecting individual and collective imaginaries of society’s current situation and possible futures. This calls for ethical considerations at every step in the research process, from the identification of a topic to the production and dissemination of a historical narrative. While…
Legal Liberation Through Relegation to the Home
This study discusses the legal liberations of sexual liaisons between men that took place in Norway and Denmark in the early decades of the twentieth century. Researchers have tended to align the liberalizations with processes of social change and modernization, attributing special importance to the introduction of new scientific understandings of same-sex desire. Building on analyses of penal code drafts, bills, and parliamentary minutes, the ar…
European history and politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Queer (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cultural History and Identity Formation (2 works) · Danish (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Heteronormativity (2 works)