As readers of this blog will know, I’ve long been puzzled by the Nordic states’ commitment to international human rights norms. In this new article, I analyse the decisions to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights in Denmark and Sweden in the early 1990s. My argument is that had less to do with the winds of change sweeping across Europe at the time and more to do with competition in the domestic party political constellation than has been previously acknowledged.
Why have civil society groups in Scandinavia increasingly turned to legal mobilization in recent decades? In a recent article, Malcolm Langford (University of Oslo), Mikael Rask Madsen (University of Copenhagen) and I seek to account for how various actors in civil society in Denmark, Norway and Sweden have pursued societal change by using courts as political arenas.
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Det djupt ovärdiga i att flyga
Klimathänsyn är rimliga skäl för att undvika att flyga, men bekvämlighet och anständighet väger fanimej tyngre: Att resa med flyg känns som ett hån mot ens mänskliga värdighet.
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Tidöregeringens lidbommeri
Minns ni Lidbommeriet? Nej, det gör inte jag heller, men jag grottade nyligen ned mig i grundlagsdebatter från 1970-90-tal i min forskning. Och det är inte utan att lidbommeriet gör sig påmint när man läser Nils Funckes text om Tidö-regeringens lagstiftningsiver.
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Six PhD positions at SGS
Come work with us! We’ve just announced six fully funded and salaried PhD positions on diverse themes in Peace & Development Research, Environmental Social Science, and Social Anthropology, at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.