En intressant episod av samisk rättsmobilisering med krav på rättigheter till land är de så kallade markstöldsmålen som bedrevs i början av 2000-talet. I ett antal parallella rättsprocesser hävdade enskilda äganderätt till skatteland som deras anfäder varit innehavare av och som staten hade övertagit under avvittringen på 1800-talet.
We are currently recruiting several PhD candidates and postdocs at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg:
Palgrave just published an edited volume on media capture – i.e., government attempts to control the mass media – in Latin America and Africa. Calle Höglund and I co-wrote a chapter on how the Museveni government seeks to control the media in Uganda and how the so-called media fraternity – a network of journalist groups and media organisations – are mobilising to prevent media capture.
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.