A World of Populations

Transnational Perspectives on Demography in the Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-351-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 382 g

Demographic study and the idea of a “population” was developed and modified over the course of the twentieth century, mirroring the political, social, and cultural situations and aspirations of different societies. This growing field adapted itself to specific policy concerns and was therefore never apolitical, despite the protestations of practitioners that demography was “natural.” Demographics were transformed into public policies that shaped family planning, population growth, medical practice, and environmental conservation. While covering a variety of regions and time periods, the essays in this book share an interest in the transnational dynamics of emerging demographic discourses and practices. Together, they present a global picture of the history of demographic knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartmann, Heinrich

Unger, Corinna R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialprognosen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Counting, Constructing, and Controlling Populations: The History of Demography, Population Studies, and Family Planning in the Twentieth Century

Corinna R. Unger and Heinrich Hartmann

Part I: Producing Demographic Subjects: Transnational Discourses

Chapter 1. The View From Below and the View From Above: What U.S. Census-taking Reveals about Social Representations in the Era of Jim Crow and Immigration Restriction

Paul Schor

Chapter 2. “Reproduction” as a New Demographic Issue in Interwar Poland

Morgane Labbé

Chapter 3. Family Planning: A Rational Choice? The Influence of Systems Approaches, Behavioralism, and Rational Choice Thinking on Mid-Twentieth Century Family Planning Programs

Corinna R. Unger

Chapter 4. “Overpopulation” and the Politics of Family Planning in Chile and Peru: Negotiating National Interests and Global Paradigms in a Cold War World

Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney

Chapter 5. Revisiting the Early 1970s Commoner-Ehrlich Debate about Population and Environment: Dueling Critiques of Production and Consumption in a Global Age

Thomas Robertson

Part II: Demographic Knowledge in Practice: Transfers and Transformations

Chapter 6. “Counting People”: The Emerging Field of Demography and the Mobilization of the Social Sciences in the Formation of Policy, South Korea since 1948

John Paul DiMoia

Chapter 7. Laparoscopy as a Technology of Population Control: A Use-Centered History of Surgical Sterilization

Jesse Olszynko-Gryn

Chapter 8. A Twofold Discovery of Population: Assessing the Turkish Population by its “Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices”, 1962-1980

Heinrich Hartmann

Chapter 9. Seeing Population as a Problem: Influences of the Construction of Population Knowledge on Kenyan Politics (1940s to 1980s)

Maria Dörnemann

Chapter 10. Filtering Demography and Biomedical Technologies: Melanesian Nurses and Global Population Concerns

Alexandra Widmer

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hartmann, Heinrich
Heinrich Hartmann is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His book, Der Volkskörper bei der Musterung. Militärstatistik und Demographie in Europa vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Wallstein 2011) received the Henry E. Sigerist Award in 2012. His research focuses on the history of nineteenth and twentieth century demography in Europe and on the history of Turkish modernization in a transnational perspective.

Unger, Corinna R.
Corinna R. Unger is Professor of Global and Colonial History (19th and 20th centuries) at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Heinrich Hartmann is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His book, Der Volkskörper bei der Musterung. Militärstatistik und Demographie in Europa vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Wallstein 2011) received the Henry E. Sigerist Award in 2012. His research focuses on the history of nineteenth and twentieth century demography in Europe and on the history of Turkish modernization in a transnational perspective.