Description:
This book explores the history of Nordic human rights politics and practices from the 1930s to present day.
Review Quotes:
"This innovative volume of high-quality essays makes an important contribution to Nordic history, as well as providing a model for the writing of the history of human rights as a complex phenomenon defined by the national context."
Martin Conway, Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford
"The essays in this volume represent exactly what human rights as an interdisciplinary research field needs: thorough and initiated empirical studies of particular political contexts and developments. Only with this kind of research can the simplification of the grand narratives be challenged and human rights theory be provided with a solid ground for engagement with real politics."
Lena Halldenius, Professor of Human Rights Studies, Lund University, Sweden.