Dr Elizabeth Kelan – Kings College London Elisabeth Kelan (PhD) is a leading expert on gender and generational relations in organisations.
She wrote "Families, History and Social Change: Life Course and Cross-Cultural Perspectives" (Westview Press, 2000), edited "Aging and Generational Relations" (de Gruyter, 1996) and co-edited "Family History Revisited: Comparative Perspectives" (University of Delaware Press, 2001).
The last weeks of the course look at postcolonial transformations and highlight changes (but also continuity) in gender relations and generational relations and professional specializations, and conclude on the various ways in which interactions between Arabs, Black-Africans and Europeans produced a culturally hybrid society.
The population transition, industrialization, urbanization, implementation of birth planning polices, and many other factors all contributed to smaller family size, changes in family structure, and the reconstruction of generational relations (Yang and Li 2009).
The proliferation of rules governing inter-generational relations is underpinned by a veritable ideology of evil.
The difficulties of inter-generational relations, which Wood considers in his piece, also reverberate throughout Wilson's edited diary entries: My parents' generation have died, my own generation is growing old, and my younger cousins who still live here have become rather remote from the rest of us.
He writes breaking news reports, critical cultural analysis and think-pieces on (but not limited to) film/television, race, theatre, gender, music, economics and inter-generational relations, as well as scripts for web, stage and screen.
Our report says putting this right and harnessing the rich potential of older people requires new approaches -- and quickly -- to a whole range of issues including health care, employment and retirement, housing, transportation, leisure and inter-generational relations.
Face-to-face and phone interviews will cover topics such as the changes in family structure (divorce, reconstituted family, stepfamily, death, etc), the different factors involved in the socialization of the individual: the roles played by parents, institutions (schools, etc)., social relationships outside school and inter-generational relations.
Their discussion touches, in a deep way, on the generational nature of the relations between men and women in Harlem: fatherless young men grow up believing women can do everything on their own, then as adults believe they are not needed and fade away.
As President Obama observed in his unexpected remarks to the White House press corps last Friday, black men and boys do not appear to be benefiting equally from America's generational evolution on race relations.
