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Completed: Migration and equity in sexual and reproductive health
Providers in reproductive health are encouraged to incorporate gender equality perspectives, as well as provide services sensitive to other cultures. How handle the conflict of values?
Four Phases in Demographic Transition: Implications for Economic and Social Developments in Sweden 1820-2000
In contrast to earlier research, historical and contemporary comparisons to Swedish demographical changes show that the age group upon which the population growth is based—either child, adult, maturit
Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Overheating
Overheating. Understanding accelerated change. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. ABSTRACTThe contemporary world is … too full? Too intense? All of the above, and more. Ours is a world of high-speed modernity where exponential growth can be found in domains as different as the number of cellphones in Africa and the number of international tourist arrivals. The fossil fuel revolution two centuries ago led to the contemporary ‘overheated’ world of exponential growth. The main dilemma of this overheated world is the insight that what was the salvation for humanity for two hundred years, namely fossil fuels, has rapidly become our damnation owing to climate change. This lecture outlines the parameters of ‘overheating’ and describes the main global challenges for our century.

Sanja Bogojević: Infrastructure for the 21st century: how climate change shapes society and law
Sanja Bogojević is Fellow and Associate Professor of Law at Lady Margaret Hall and the Faculty of Law. Prior to joining Oxford Law Faculty, she was Associate Professor (‘Docent’) of Environmental Law
Socioeconomic Persistence Across Generations: Cognitive and Noncognitive Processes
Kapitel 3. http://www.russellsage.org/publications/parents-to-children Abstract This chapter analyses the role of cognitive ability, personality traits, and physical characteristics in transmission of so
Completed: The social forms of intimacy – proximity practice and identity in cohousing, pet relationships and couple dance
How do we find intimacy outside of the nuclear family? This project examines couple dance, the relationship between humans and pets, and cohousing residents.