1. Introduction -- 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 -- 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? -- 9. Experiencing the Welfare State: Sick 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.- 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".