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Eradication: the science and politics of a world without AIDS (ERADICATION)

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

New biomedical technologies and public health strategies are being tested world-wide with the goal of eradicating the HIV epidemic. Achieving a world without AIDS has become the flagship of the vast global health apparatus, rallying governments, international organisations, philanthropic and pharmaceutical capital, research networks and activists. Mass screening and treatment, preventive drugs and ...
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Race Matter: On the Absent Presence of Race in Forensic Identification (RaceFaceID)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

This ethnographic project on race in forensic practice aims to study how technologies of identification shape race. The focus is on ‘face-making’ in forensic identification; i.e. the reconstruction of faces of unknown persons, a practice entwined with ‘race-making’.In five subprojects the study investigates: How technologies of facial identification in and outside laboratories enact race (subproje ...
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Transforming Citizenship through Hybrid Governance: The Impacts of Public-Private Security Assemblages (SECURCIT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

"This project is an anthropological study of how citizenship is being reconfigured through hybrid forms of governance. It will research these transformations by focusing on public-private ‘security assemblages’, with particular emphasis on the role of the private security industry. Much recent scholarly debate has focused on shifting modes of governance in a context of neoliberal globalization. Sp ...
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The Social Life of State Deportation Regimes: A Comparative Study of the Implementation Interface (DEPORT REGIMES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The deportation of irregular migrants is a burning issue in public debates all around the world. Most states invest heavily in effective deportation regimes, but when it comes to implementation, deportation regimes are notorious for not achieving their declared goals. Everywhere, marked discrepancies persist between deportation policies and actual practices of deportation.This project compares the ...
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Authoritarianism in a Global Age: Controlling Information and Communication, Association and People Movement (AuthoritarianGlobal)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The overarching research question of this project is: how is authoritarian rule affected by and responding to globalisation of (a) information and communication, (b) association, and (c) people movement? The wholly unpredicted series of revolts that recently spread across the Arab world suggests that the nature and sustainability of contemporary authoritarian rule are not well-understood. Openness ...
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Problematizing ‘Muslim Marriages’: Ambiguities and Contestations (MUSLIMMARRIAGES)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

During the last two decades, in the North as well as in the global South, new forms of Muslim marriages, such as unregistered, visiting, or temporary marriages, have become the target of public debate. State authorities, religious scholars, women’s organisations, (neo-)nationalists, and parents express concern about youngsters, and especially young and not so young women, entering into such marria ...
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From warfare to welfare: a comparative study of how combat trauma is internalized and institutionalized (COMBATTRAUMA)

Start date: Aug 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

This project is an anthropological study of combat trauma in three Western nations: Israel, the United States, and the Netherlands. Trauma means different things to different actors, and acquires a different value (both economic and social) in different therapeutic settings. Research will examine how clinical notions of combat trauma are established, adapted, resisted or internalized in differen ...
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What chemicals do for youths in their everyday lives (ChemicalYouth)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2018,

The everyday lives of contemporary youths are awash with chemicals and pharmaceutical compounds to boost pleasure, moods, sexual performance, vitality, appearance and health. Nevertheless, most studies of chemical use among young people have focused on the abuse of specific recreational drugs and their role within deviant youth sub-cultures. Instead of explaining drug abuse with the purpose of con ...
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Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty: Transnational Diaspora Mobilization in Europe and Its Impact on Political Proceses in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East (DIASPORACONTEST)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This groundbreaking multi-methods political science study investigates the transnational mobilization of conflict-generated diasporas in Europe and its impact on polities experiencing contested sovereignty in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. Four researchers study how diasporas mobilize when a specific aspect of sovereignty is contested in the original homeland: The PI focuses on th ...
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"Globalization, Sports and the Precarity of Masculinity" (GLOBALSPORT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"In the last few decades, the erosion of the social and economic structures that previously provided a straightforward raison d’être to men have transformed, in all societies of the world, masculinity into a problematic category. In the Global South, deepening economic, political and social insecurities have further compounded the fragility of masculinity. Younger men in particular find it incre ...
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The Interplay Between the Upward Trend in Home-Ownership and Income Inequality in Advanced Welfare Democracies (HOWCOME)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

This research project is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary study into the so far unrecognised interplay between two major social trends of the post-war period: the upward trend in income inequality, and the increase of owner-occupation. Using a comparative perspective, the project aims at constructing a unified account by means of a systematic analysis of: 1) the ‘driving’ forces of both s ...
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"Rights, Responsibilities, and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Global Impact on Moral and Political Subjectivity" (AIDSRIGHTS)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"This project will undertake a transnational, multi-sited ethnographic study of moral and political subjectivity in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. The main research question is: what kinds of politico-moral persons are constituted in institutional contexts that combine human rights and personal responsibility approaches to health, a ...
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Integration and international migration: pathways and integration policies (INTEGRIM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

According to UN assessments, there are 214 million international migrants worldwide and another 740 million internal migrants . The OECD highlights that there seems little likelihood of substantial reductions in numbers of international migrants in the current decade . Rises in global population, new demographic trends including ageing population, environmental deterioration and an increased globa ...
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Governing Urban Diversity: Creating Social Cohesion, Social Mobility and Economic Performance in Today's Hyper-diversified Cities (DIVERCITIES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The central hypothesis of this project is that socio-economic, socio-demographic, ethnic and cultural diversity can positively affect social cohesion, economic performance and social mobility of individuals and groups. A better social cohesion, higher economic performance and increased chances for social mobility will make European cities more liveable and more competitive. In this period of long- ...
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Housing Markets and Welfare State Transformations: How Family Housing Property is Reshaping Welfare Regimes (HOUWEL)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

"This project investigates how growing reliance on housing markets and family property wealth in meeting welfare and security needs is transforming contemporary welfare states. Home ownership normally constitutes a primary family node for the delivery and exchange of shelter, informal care and asset wealth, reducing household dependency on the state. Different modes of housing thereby influence we ...
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Transition to parenthood: International and national studies of norms and gender division of work at the life course transition to parenthood (APPARENT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"The project is the first comprehensive study to assess contemporary parenting norms and practices and their diffusion. The project develops a comparative framework to study prevalent motherhood and fatherhood norms, images, identities and behaviour in current societies. The project will focus on how parenting roles are constructed by professionals, welfare states, and popular media, and will asse ...
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(Post-)Yugoslav LGBT Activism: Between Nationalism and Europeanisation (LGBTQYU)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"As the destructive power of nationalism has subsided over the last decade, the status and application of LGBT rights has remained one of the most polarising political issues in the post-Yugoslav space. Drawing upon the conceptual apparatus of social movement studies and Europeanisation and gender theory, this project consists of three major, closely inter-related research foci: 1. if offers a his ...
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Data for Development: the implications of new types of digital data for international development (D4D)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Jun 21, 2016,

"The current exponential increase in the use of digital communication technologies in low and middle income countries has the potential to make their citizens a rich mine of information about health interventions, human mobility, conflict and violence, technology adoption, communication dynamics and financial behaviour. However, the default mode is currently for this to happen without their inform ...
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Social Innovation - Empowering the Young (SocIEtY) for the Common Good (SOCIETY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

“Social Innovation–Empowering the Young (SocIEtY) for the Common Good” will both focus on and integrate disadvantaged young people into the research process to improve their quality of life and to foster social innovation. Therefore SocIEtY will extend the given informational basis for designing and implementing policies to reduce inequalities by giving voice and opportunities for developing aspir ...
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Towards a comparative sociology of beauty The transnational modelling industry and the social shaping of beauty standards in six European countries (BEAUTY)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

This project studies how beauty standards - perceptions of physical beauty in women and men - are socially shaped. It will focus on the transnational modelling industry, an institution centrally concerned with the production and dissemination of beauty standards. The project aims to develop a comparative sociology of beauty. By comparing beauty standards both within and across nations, it will ide ...
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Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks (GREEN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"GREEN will study the current and future role of the EU in an emerging multi-polar world through a programme of stock-taking, multi-disciplinary research and complementary activities. It aims at an understanding of the prospective directions of the emerging global governance structures and Europe’s place in them.Analysis will focus on the extant actors from the 20th century, the 21st century risin ...
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The eating body in Western practice and theory (EATINGBODIES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Human bodies eat. But what does this entail? The proposed project will explore how the eating body is shaped in different Western practices. These will include nutritional research and health care clinics, sites that have a far-reaching impact on how we eat. Four related sub-projects will trace the most relevant contrasts: (1) the eating body's health: limiting calorie intake versus maximising sat ...
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Multi-disciplinary University Traditional Health Initiative (MUTHI): Building Sustainable Research Capacity on Plants for Better Public Health in Africa (MUTHI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

It is recognised that research must be a basis for better health throughout Africa (e.g. Global Ministerium Forum on Research for Health, Bamako 2008, Beijing declaration 2008). As a consequence It is a priority to build research capacities in the African continent that will set good standards for development of improved health security and systems in the future. In several African countries west ...
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Community-embedded Reproductive health Care for Adolescents (CERCA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

Adolescents in Latin America are confronted with serious sexual and reproductive health problems. Besides the negative physical effects, poor sexual and reproductive health brings about social threats for adolescents. The CERCA project aims to contribute to the global knowledge about how health systems could be more responsive to the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents and by exten ...
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Coordinating resources to assess and improve health status of migrants from Latin America (COHEMI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"European health systems are committed to meeting the challenge of understanding the needs of migrant populations and adapting their services to meet these needs. The difficulties inextricably linked to this challenge are caused by the complexity of migration patterns and the differences between migrant population across EU countries. At present, the limited available data show that attempts to in ...
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Support and Opposition to Migration. A cross national comparison of the politicization of migration (SOM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"The large-scale migration caused all sorts of tensions in the receiving countries, particularly when it became clear that immigrants planned to settle permanently and eventually claimed to participate socially and politically in their countries of settlement. However, the presence of immigrants did not yet become a politically contested issue everywhere. In some countries such as Spain, Ireland i ...
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