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Heather Allansdottir

Heather Allansdottir is a novelist, journalist, and academic. She has taught at universities across the UK, Europe, Russia, and Australia. Her work spans fiction, journalism, and legal theory. Her forthcoming novel, The Budapest Questions, and her next academic book, New Perspectives In Outer Space Law, are both due out in the coming year.

11 articles

Heather Allansdottir / 15 Aug 2022

Universitet Lessons

Russia After the Arab Spring

In 2015, I moved to Moscow to spend a year teaching human rights. I lasted five months. As my former students from that time are arrested for protesting the Ukrainian war, here are some reflections on what I learned about the evil of Putin and the kindness of Russians.(...)
Heather Allansdottir / 25 Jul 2022

Odesa Mama

Utopia by the Sea

The Russians have struck Odesa again, this time mere hours after reaching a deal with the Ukrainians. Though spared the worst of the war, an attack on Odesa is an attack on the best of Ukrainian and Russophone culture alike.(...)
Heather Allansdottir / 14 Oct 2019

Taking Greenland Seriously

It’s Not About America

Greenland briefly bubbled up into the global consciousness this summer when Donald Trump’s offer to purchase the country was quickly dismissed as “absurd” by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. (...)

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