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World of Populations: Transnational Perspectives on Demography in the Twentieth Century [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 264 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, weight: 354 g, Bibliography; Index; 5 Illustrations
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Nov-2016
  • Leidėjas: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN-10: 1785333518
  • ISBN-13: 9781785333514
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 264 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, weight: 354 g, Bibliography; Index; 5 Illustrations
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Nov-2016
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  • ISBN-10: 1785333518
  • ISBN-13: 9781785333514
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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.

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an important step in writing global or transnational histories of demographic ideas and discourses The volume offers insights into global and local interactions, covers major aspects of global family planning programmes and "overpopulation" debates, as well as contains case studies on the United States, Poland, Chile, South Korea, Turkey, Kenya, and Melanesia. · H-Soz-Kult





I learned something new on almost every page of A World of Populations, despite having worked very closely in this field. The case studies herein are surprising and fascinating, offering new geographies and perspectives. This book has made me intrigued and curious about demography and world population all over again. · Alison Bashford, University of Cambridge, author of Global Population





Overall, this is a compelling, well-researched set of essays..[ that] show us the nuanced, place-specific negotiations between international institutions and experts, national political entities, and local actors Both the overall picture and the specific stories provided in this text are important contributions to the emerging literature on the history and social studies of demography and population policy. · Saul Halfon, Virginia Tech

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
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.