Nordic Histories of Human Rights (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt; Strang, Johan; Lindkvist, Linde; Jensen, Steven L. B.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the history of Nordic human rights politics and practices from the 1930s to present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000163629
• Artikelnr.: 59974985

Autorenporträt

Hanne Hagtvedt Vik is Professor of International History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her work on indigenous internationalism and Sami, Nordic and US human rights history have appeared in Journal of Global History, International History Review and Nordic Journal of Human Rights. She is the Director of the Norwegian Research School in History. Steven L. B. Jensen is Senior Researcher at The Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark. He is the author of the prize-winning book The Making of International Human Rights. The 1960s, Decolonization and the Reconstruction of Global Values (2016). His recent publications include Histories of Global Inequality: New Perspectives (2019). Linde Lindkvist is PhD and Senior Lecturer in human rights studies at the School of Human Rights, University College Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of Religious Freedom and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2017). His ongoing project concerns the origins of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Johan Strang is Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Associate Professor in Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has a broad interest in the intellectual and political history of the Nordic region and his recent publications include the edited volumes Nordic Cooperation: A European Region in Transition (2016) and Decentering European Intellectual Space (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Histories of Human Rights in the Nordic Countries
2. Scandinavian Legal Realism and Human Rights: Axel Hägerström, Alf Ross
and the Persistent Attack on Natural Law
3. Human Rights in Interwar Finland
4. From Global Ambition to Local Reality: Initiatives for the Dissemination
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Norway, 1948-1952
5. Evolving Internationalism: Denmark and Human Rights Politics, 1948-1968
6. International Arenas and Domestic Institution Formation: The Impact of
the UN Women's Conferences in Denmark, 1975-1985
7. Rights for the World's Children: Rädda Barnen and the Making of the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child
8. Deploying the Engagement Policy: The Significance of Legal Dualism in
Norway's Support for Human Rights Treaties from the late 1970s