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Bertil Egerö | |
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| Born | November 14, 1936 Örgryte, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Nationality (legal) | Swedish |
| Alma mater | Stockholm University (BA), Gothenburg University, London School of Economics (M.Sc.), Lund University |
| Known for | Associate professor at Lund University from 1996 to 2003 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | Lund University |
Erik Bertil Egerö (born November 14, 1936), is a Swedish sociologist with special focus on the inter-relation between population dynamics and socio-economic development. He has during many years worked as an expert and adviser to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and spent periods of work in, i.a., Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Early life edit
Bertil Egerö was born Ericsson November 14, 1936, in the parish of Örgryte in Gothenburg, Sweden. His parents were the civil engineer Eric Egerö, born Ericsson [1] and the director of gymnastics Rut Egerö, born Östby [2]. At the age of seven, he moved to Saltsjöbaden on the outskirts of Stockholm. His first four years in school were spent at a local public school, which was located on “the wrong side of the railway tracks”. Most of his class mates had a working class background, and only a few applied to the secondary school. This gave him basic experiences of class differences and social inequalities.
Education edit
Bertil gained his school leaving certificate (matriculation) in Saltsjöbaden’s secondary school in 1955. He gained a Bachelor's degree (candidate) at the Stockholm University in 1960, an Honours degree (licentiate exam) at the University of Gothenburg in 1969 and a Master of Science at the London School of Economics in 1972.
In 1996 he was appointed associate professor at Lund university.[3]
Research edit
Bertil Egerö has produced large number of books, writings and articles.[4]
Egerö’s thesis, Ny bostad i ytterstad (New home in the suburb) (1967), is a study of social dimensions among new inhabitants in the area Västra Järnbrott in Gothenburg.
In 1978 he had concluded a study of urban housing development in Örebro. The report was called En mönsterstad granskas (A model city is reviewed).[5] In the report, Egerö could expose a high level of concentration of power invested in one man.
In 1967, Bertil Egerö moved to Tanzania to work as a United Nations Associate Expert in the implementation of a national population census. A final report of analysis of the census results came to guide subsequent census work in other African countries.[6] [7]
Following Mozambique’s independence in 1975, Egerö was asked to lead the first post-independence census in this country. There, he spent 1978-80 undertaking the census.
A large part of Egerö’s scientific work has been focused on the complex factors influencing human reproduction. In 1971, he took part in an African population conference in Accra, Ghana, in preparation for the forthcoming UN 1974 population Conference in Bucharest, Rumania.
In 1990, at the department of sociology, Lund university, he and his colleague Staffan Lindberg set up an institutional adviser to Sida under the name of PROP, Population and Development in the Third World.[8] [9]
Among his more important publications is found Understanding Reproductive Change: Kenya, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Costa Rica, produced as consultancy to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sweden) for the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo 1994.[10] The study exposed the connection between women’s reproduction and their social and economic conditions. The report was thus a critique of the way UN institutions laid an emphasis on family planning as a means to fewer children.
Later, during four years, Egerö represented Sweden in the United Nations Commission on Population and Development, New York.
His scientific production ended with research on the demographic and social effects of HIV/AIDS, mainly in Africa south of the Sahara. The studies emphasized the impact of social factors for the spread of the disease.[11]
Solidarity engagements edit
Beginning in the 1970’s, Bertil Egerö took an active part in solidarity work. In London he worked for a solidary organization mobilizing support to the liberation movements struggling for independence in Portugal’s African colonies. As from 1974, he was an active member in the Swedish Afrikagrupperna. The Scandinavian Institute for African Studies, SIAS, has taken care of his private collection of documents from the liberation movements.[12]
In 1987, Egerö published a critical study of the politics of the government in Mozambique, which exposed the consequences as well as the causes.[13]
The co-housing movement edit
Since 1990, Bertil Egerö lives in a cohousing unit called Slottet, in Lund. Beginning in the 1980’s, he has taken active roles in the Swedish co-housing movement working for the creation of new co-housing units. In 2010 he was a member of the steering group of The International Collaborative Housing Conference in Stockholm.[14] [15]
- ^ Geni.com, retrieved 7 January 2024 [1]
- ^ Geni.com, retrieved 7 January 2024 [2]
- ^ 8https://digitaltmuseum.org/021038507281/egero-bertil-1936]
- ^ Libris. Retrieved 7 January 2024[3]
- ^ En mönsterstad granskas. Statens byggforskningsråd 1979. Retrieved 7 January 2024 [4]
- ^ The population of Tanzania. An analysis of the 1967 population census. Ed. Egero, Bertil and Henin, Roushdie A. Census volume 6, BRALUP and Bureau of Statistics, Dar es Salaam 1972
- ^ Egerö, Bertil. Population Movement and the Colonial Economy of Tanzania. Dar es Salaam: Bureau of Research Assessment and Land Use Planning. Research Paper No. 35, 1974
- ^ South Asian Studies Network (SASNET). Retrieved 7 January 2024. [5]
- ^ PROP. Archived 2 November 2001 by the Wayback Mashine. Retrieved 7 January 2024. [6]
- ^ Understanding Reproductive Change: Kenya, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Costa Rica. Environment & urbanization. Retrieved 7 January 2024. [7]
- ^ HIV/AIDS in the world today - a summary of trends and demographic implications. Sida, Health Division Document 2000:1 [8]
- ^ ”Bertil Egerö's Private Collection”. The Nordic Africa Institute. Retrieved 7 January 2024. [9]
- ^ Egerö, Bertil. Mozambique: A Dream Undone. The Political Economy of Democracy, 1975-84. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies 1987 [10]
- ^ Egerö, Bertil. Social change and housing demands – what futures? In: Living together – cohousing ideas and realities around the world. Ed. Vestbro, Dick Urban. KTH, Stockholm 2010 [11]
- ^ Summary of the International Collaborative Cohousing Conference Stockholm 5-9 May 2010. Kollektivhus NU, Stockholm 2010 [12]