Egalitarianism in Scandinavia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

1. Introduction
Part 1: The Tradition of Egalitarianism
2. The Cultural Construction of Equality in Norden
3. The Cradle of Norwegian Equality and Egalitarianism - Norway in the 19th Century
4. Critiquing the View from Within: "Likhet" is not Equality
Part II: Egalitarianism and Public Institutions
5. Social Imaginaries of Equality in an Age of Financialization/Neoliberalization
6. Egalitarianism, Mobilization, and Resistance
7. Normative Hierarchy and Pragmatic Egalitarianism in Municipal Policy Development
8. Care and Control in the Clinic: - How Deep into their Lives can we Really go?
Part III: Egalitarianism and the Welfare State
9. Experiencing the Welfare State: S ick Leave and Local Culture
10. Social Differences in Health as a Challenge to the Danish Welfare State
11. Irregular Migrants and the Norwegian Welfare State
12. Reshaping Egalitarian Practices: Vocational Youth between Schooling, Industry, and Popular Culture in Rural Norway
Part IV: Egalitarianism, Inequality and Difference
13. Equality and Fairness: Some Comparative Perspectives
14. The (In)egalitarian Dynamics of 'Gender Equality' in Contemporary Norway
15. Conditioned Belonging: Middle-class Ethnic Minorities in Norway
16. Riding along in the Name of Equality: Everyday Demands on Refugee Children to Conform to Local Bodily Practices of "Danishness"