Therese Boje Mortensen

About

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Human Rights Studies. In December 2023, I defended my PhD thesis about NGOs as implementers of children's rights in India. Until 2028, I will be working under an international postdoc grant from the Swedish Research Council to ethnographically investigate children and young people's possibilities for legal rights-based climate activism in India. This project is based at Lund University, but with collaboration with BML Munjal University (India) and Antwerp University (Belgium).

Employment

• Lund University Postdoctoral researcher
  2024 - Present
• Lund University PhD Candidate
  2018 - 2024

Education

• European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation MA, Human Rights and Democratisation
  2016 - 2017
• University of Copenhagen BA, South Asian Studies
  2013 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (12)

• Rebranding Child Protection Policies Undermines the Real Issues of Funding and Implementation: A Comparative Analysis of the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (2009 and 2014) and Mission Vatsalya (2022)
  Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond 2025 DOI: 10.1177/23493003251360927
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• Broadening the Meanings of Youth Climate Activism: A Review of the Literature from Asia
  Youth 2025 DOI: 10.3390/youth5030067
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• Children's rights implementation as a lived practice
  2025 DOI: 10.4324/9781003510284-19
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• Selective privatisation and changing civic spaces in India:
  Intersections 2025 DOI: 10.17356/ieejsp.v11i2.1358
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• Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India Making bureaucracy work: norms, education and public service delivery in rural India , by Akshay Mangla, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xx + 420 pp., 31.99…
  Contemporary South Asia 2024 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2024.2307749
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• Human Rights as Social Service: Vernacular Rights Cultures and Overlapping Ethical Discourses at an Indian Child Rights NGO
  Nordic Journal of Human Rights 2024 DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2024.2326784
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• NGOs as child rights implementers in India
  2023 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20714.70087
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• ADULTS AS ADVOCATES: HOW SEXUAL ABUSE WAS PUT ON THE CHILD RIGHTS MAP IN INDIA
  Sociological Studies of Children and Youth 2023 DOI: 10.1108/S1537-46612023011
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• Child Participation
  Empowering Children and Youth through Law and Participation 2023
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• Non-Governmental Organisations and the United Nations Human Rights System
  Nordic Journal of Human Rights 2022 DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2022.2082671
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