Iceland voted No. But what, exactly, did we reject?
We chose not to establish what was negotiable before deciding whether it was acceptable. We were entirely within our democratic...
Read moreDetailsInga Henriksen is an MA candidate in Social Work at the University of Iceland. Her academic interests centre on human rights, power relations, social policy and how political and institutional structures shape people's lives. She writes from Iceland, bringing a social and structural perspective to questions of politics, democracy and society
We chose not to establish what was negotiable before deciding whether it was acceptable. We were entirely within our democratic...
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