Anna Derksen
Anna is a PhD candidate in social and political history at the Institute for History, Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her research interests include modern Nordic history, welfare states, the history of national minorities and persons with disabilities, as well as transnational relations and development cooperation. For more information about Anna, click here.
Contributions to nordics.info
2020.01.21 | The Quick Read, Anna Derksen, The Nordics in the World, Globalisation
Disability, development and the Nordics, 1960s-2000
Nordic disability organizations have been carrying out development projects in the Global South since the 1960s. Initially a preventive and rehabilitative approach was taken with, for example, a focus on schools for special education, vocational training and medical care. Although important, this type of aid became increasingly seen as…
2019.12.04 | Biography, Anna Derksen, Minorities, The Nordics in the World
Bengt Olof Lennart Lindqvist (1936-2016)
Bengt Lindqvist was a Swedish politician and an active member of Swedish and international disability organizations. He became deputy minister for social security in 1985, the first Swedish minister with a visual impairment, and served as the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on Disability from 1994 to 2002. In both the national and the…