Voluntary family planning is a key mainstay of demographic work and population policies.
The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) signalled a …

Throughout Nepal, women and girls follow a range of menstrual practices, many of which
leave them vulnerable to negative health outcomes. We applied a participatory visual …

The late 1990s saw a shift in the implementation of Indian health and population policies
from a focus on fertility control in its Family Planning programme towards a rights-based and …

In contemporary global health and development discourses, contraception is cast in multiple
roles: an antipoverty tool at the household level, a tool of economic development at the …

Ontologies of intervention in global health involve a voracious appetite for data-collection of
data as evidence of what is intervention is needed, the establishment of metrics to organize …

What happens to a community when the majority of young people leave their homes to
pursue an education? From a Trickle to a Torrent documents the demographic and social …

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive
health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state …

The impacts of early pregnancy and young motherhood on everyday life, including
interpersonal and individual behavior, are not well-known. Passive digital sensing on mobile …

This article provides insights into the cultural aspects of sexual violence against young
women trafficked into the sex industry in Nepal. Participant observation, participatory clay …

Over the last four decades, there has been a major shift in the way demographers think
about issues of gender; the field has gone from a seeming lack of awareness that many …