About me

My name is Turið Nolsøe, I am a ph.d. in rhetoric from the University of Copenhagen and this website is a collection of my professional activities.

I am based in Copenhagen, but regularly travel to the Faroe Islands, where I was born and grew up and which still play a central role in most of my research.

I have published research on abortion activism in the Faroe Islands, the intersection of disability and coloniality and have articles on the uses of “I” in journalism, Faroese abortion history and discussions of abortion rights in a human rights perspective.

My main line of research is how abortion rhetoric plays in to colonial discourses, or what I like to call the intersection of biopolitics and geopolitics. I wrote my thesis on Danish media coverage of Faroese abortion rights, focusing on how autonomy is presented and negotiated. Hence the title, “Autonomy’s double bind”.