TY - JOUR

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 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2024.2340503

DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2024.2340503

M3 - Journal article

SP - 1

EP - 20

JO - National Identities

JF - National Identities

SN - 1460-8944

M1 - 1

ER -