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Doctoral Student
- Human Rights Studies
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail therese.mortensenmrs.luse
Room LUX:A230
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Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am a PhD candidate in Human Rights Studies since autumn 2018. I am interested in the intersections between international law, local practices and local conceptions of children's rights in India. My dissertation project is concerned with the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as de facto ‘duty bearers’ of human rights, specifically children’s protection rights in central and northern India. Through an ethnographic study of ChildLine, a 24-hour helpline for children, I explore how children’s rights are affected in practice when significant aspects of child protection are left dependent on local NGOs; how the concepts of child rights and duty bearers are vernacularised throughout a large NGO working at many levels; as well as the notion of 'universal human rights' in a context where the state retreats as the de facto duty bearer.
Research
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Articles (2)
- Mortensen, T. (2020). Digitalising the Ethnographic Field in and Post Covid-19 : How (a study of ) child rights activism in India moved online. Chakra: tidskrift för indiska religioner, 2020 (Special Issue), 67-75. Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap, Lunds universitet.
- Mortensen, T. (2018). Localising De-Institutionalisation : The Potentials of Article 20 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Context of Rajasthan, India. Asia in Focus, 5. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS).
Conference contributions (4)
- Mortensen, T. (2021). The Marketisation of Human Rights Duties : What Happens to a Right When the Duty Bearer Is Not (only) the State).
- Mortensen, T. (2020). Benefits and problems with non-legal and nongovernmental avenues for access to justice for children.
- Mortensen, T. (2020). Contesting and Homogenising the “Rights-Based Approach” : Child Rights Norms in State and NGO Discourse in India.
- Mortensen, T. (2020). Partnering with civil society or privatising human rights duties? : The construction of voluntary organisations as quasi-legal duty bearers in Indian law and policy.
Reviews (1)
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (3)
- Mortensen, T. (2020). Ställer om från rättigheter till nödhjälp under ”lockdown”. Sydasien. Tidskriftsföreningen Sydasien.
- Boje Mortensen, T. (2019). Indiens regeringsprogram når långt ut i landet – men det gör inte de statsanställda. Sydasien. Tidskriftsföreningen Sydasien.
- Boje Mortensen, T. (2019). Vem röstar på Modi?. Sydasien. Tidskriftsföreningen Sydasien.
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Doctoral Student
- Human Rights Studies
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail therese.mortensenmrs.luse
Room LUX:A230
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30