Fobbing care work unto ”the other” - what daily press reporting shows by Sandra Torres

“…This research note gives insight into how care, and migrant care workers, are regarded in one of the world’s most egalitarian societies. In doing so, it suggests that the intersection between population ageing and international migration is an abundant source of information about societies’ moral compasses. …”
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The ”People’s home” is falling down, time to update your view of Sweden by Göran Therborn

“… Swedish society is changing profoundly. The egalitarian, solidaristic ”People’s Home”, which has attracted widespread progressive admiration internationally, is being eroded and dismantled. …”
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The Community of Rights by Jonas Ross Kjærsgård

“…The relatively unknown author and political activist Olympe de Gouges is used as a case with focus on the radical and egalitarian part of her thinking. De Gouges’s challenge to a normative understanding of sexual differences and her defense of women’s and illegitimate children’s rights are examples of how the rhetoric of human rights and the idea of the natural has been operationalized in a way that made it possible to see and criticize the fact that women were excluded from the political sphere as long as equality among brothers was the sole alternative to the paternal authority of the king.  …”
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Racialisering og viljen til det gode i børnehavens sprogarbejde by Josefine Lee Stage

“… In this article, an egalitarian project concerning children’s language in kindergartens is explored through the concepts racialization and doing good. …”
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The Haunted People's Home by Pär Wikman

“…The fear of state overreach, sorrow over the egalitarian society that never materialised, and anxiety about what social order would replace it together creates a welfare gothic mood. …”
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Arbejdet med inklusion - og mod eksklusion? by Sabrina Vitting-Seerup

“…When we begin to understand how mechanisms of exclusion can take place even among those with egalitarian ideals, we do not only begin to understand why there was a need to include in the first place – we might also be able to better understand the changes that we see in current times: With MeToo and BlackLivesMatter, there has undeniably been a change in public discourse and the changes can be tracked to focus of the Danish museums’ exhibitions. …”
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Reducing health inequalities in Finland: progressing or regressing? by Hannele Palosuo, Marita Sihto

“…By the turn of the 1990s, Finland was one of the most egalitarian countries but after the economic depression of the 1990s the basis of the welfare state was weakened. …”
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Church Followership and Power by Robert Lilleaasen

“…I have identified three characteristics relevant to the leader-follower relationship in congregations, i.e., voluntarism, an egalitarian push, and a commitment to theological values and purposes. …”
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Patriarchal values by Jaleh Shaditalab, Rana Mehrabi

“…The younger generation has a different value system and it has moved towards a more egalitarian type of family. With the gender variable included in the findings we see that although the values of the younger male population have evolved toward a less patriarchal decision making structure inthe family, the degree of changes among the young women is much higher. …”
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Like barn leker best? Likhetens flertydighet by Tina Binfield-Skøie

“…English abstract The Ambiguity of Sameness Nordic Early Childhood Education (ECE) traditions are described as egalitarian, characterized by socio-political ambitions to reduce unequal differences between social groups (Bendixsen et al., 2018). …”
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The Aesthetics of Human Rights by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Ben Dorfman

“…Joseph Slaughter (2007, 4-5) has similarly argued that human rights law and the Bildungsroman share a “deep narrative grammar”: a specific form of “egalitarian imaginary.” Nonetheless, reports and stories of evil often also carry the mark of silence and trauma and sometimes appear as incoherent or incomprehensible stories. …”
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