Politics And Population Control

Author : Kathleen A. Tobin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313059674

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Politics and Population Control by Kathleen A. Tobin Pdf

What is population history about? It's about birth rates, migration, and economies. It's about families, women, and babies. It is about agricultural production, military conflict, colonies, and race. In short, population history is the human story. This book shows that population issues—numbers of people, how to feed them, their employment, racial makeup, intelligence, health, sexual behavior, and reproduction—have concerned authorities for centuries. The primary documents in this volume illustrate those concerns from the mid-18th century to the present. Provided is background information on each document and coverage of a variety of population perspectives. All of the concerns illustrated in this volume have helped to mold population policy. From the threat of a population explosion, familiar to those growing up in the 1960s, to birth control, women's rights, and lawmakers' desires to address social ills, this book covers a wide spectrum of issues. Included is a variety of documents, such as treatises, essays, speeches, articles, and passages from books. Tobin's introductory commentary provides a framework for the documents, pointing to their intent and significance. This is the only comprehensive source of documents on population, making it a valuable resource for both professional and armchair historians.

Author : Betsy Hartmann
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608467341

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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs by Betsy Hartmann Pdf

“Those involved in women’s health issues, Third World studies, and economic development should find food for thought” (Kirkus Reviews). This is an updated edition of the “influential study” (Publishers Weekly) of issues surrounding childbirth and the history of population control programs. Challenging conventional wisdom about overpopulation, and uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, environmental degradation, and gender inequalities, the author uses data and vivid case studies to explore how population control programs came to be promoted by powerful governments, foundations, and international agencies as an instrument of Cold War development and security policy. Mainly targeting poor women, these programs were designed to drive down birth rates as rapidly and cheaply as possible, with coercion often a matter of course. In the war on population growth, birth control was deployed as a weapon, rather than a tool of reproductive choice. Threaded throughout is the story of how international women’s health activists fought to reform population control and promote a new agenda of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. While their efforts bore fruit, obstacles remain. On one side is the anti-choice movement that wants to deny women access not only to abortion but to most methods of contraception. On the other is a resurgent, well-funded population control lobby that often obscures its motives with the language of women’s empowerment. Despite declining birth rates worldwide—average global family size is now 2.5 children—overpopulation alarm is on the rise, tied now to the threats of climate change and terrorism. Reproductive Rights and Wrongs reveals how these developments are rooted in the longer history and politics of population control. In this book, a new generation of readers will find knowledge and inspiration for the ongoing struggle to achieve reproductive rights and social, environmental, and gender justice.

Author : Thomas B Littlewood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1979-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0268015325

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The Politics of Population Control by Thomas B Littlewood Pdf

Author : Paige Whaley Eager
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351933292

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Global Population Policy by Paige Whaley Eager Pdf

The general assumption throughout history has been that a growing population is beneficial for societies. By the mid-1960s, however, the United States and other developed countries became convinced that population control was an absolute necessity, especially in the developing world. This absorbing study explains why population control is no longer the focus of global population policy and why reproductive rights and health have become the major focus. The book highlights the role that the US and other developed countries play in affecting global population policy, looking in particular at the stance of the George W. Bush administration since taking office. It also studies the influence of the UN as an international forum and explores how civil society questioned the ethics of population control. Global Population Policy will appeal to a wide audience, including readers in the fields of women's studies, development politics and international relations.

Author : Virginia Abernethy,Garrett Hardin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351320832

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Population Politics by Virginia Abernethy,Garrett Hardin Pdf

International efforts to regulate fertility rates so that populations do not grow beyond the earth's capacity have included technical assistance and capital; improved health care conditions to lower the risk of infant mortality; increased opportunities to develop literacy; the democratization of governments; and several decades of liberal immigration and refugee policies favoring third world nations. The persistence of high fertility despite international efforts confounds demographers. 'Population Politics' brilliantly dissects the paradigm responsible for the counterproductive efforts of nations and international agencies. Abernethy, a renowned anthropologist, shows why policies hamper the shift to lower fertility. Ireland, Indonesia, Cuba, China, Turkey and Egypt are but a few of the countries Abernethy examines, showing how economic, sociocultural, and agricultural factors that have caused population growth can be harnessed to stabilize population size. 'Population Politics' is a provocative examination of the influence of aid and liberal immigration policies on world population growth, and often counterproductive to the role of the United States as an industrial power. This volume's uniquely interdisciplinary perspective will enlighten the lay reader, as well as demographers and epidemiologists, conservationists, reproduction and family specialists, agricultural economists, and public health personnel. Virginia D. Abernethy is professor emeritus of psychiatry (anthropology) at Vanderbilt Medical School and was for 11 years the editor of the scholarly journal 'Population and Environment. Garrett Hardin is emeritus professor of human ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Author : Betsy Hartmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015031825287

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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs by Betsy Hartmann Pdf

With a new introduction, this fully revised edition of a feminist classic reveals the dangers of contemporary population control tactivs, especially as they affect women in developing countries.

Author : Jack A. Goldstone,Eric P. Kaufmann,Monica Duffy Toft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199945962

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Political Demography by Jack A. Goldstone,Eric P. Kaufmann,Monica Duffy Toft Pdf

The field of political demography - the politics of population change - is dramatically underrepresented in political science. At a time when demographic changes - aging in the rich world, youth bulges in the developing world, ethnic and religious shifts, migration, and urbanization - are waxing as never before, this neglect is especially glaring and starkly contrasts with the enormous interest coming from policymakers and the media. "Ten years ago, [demography] was hardly on the radar screen," remarks Richard Jackson and Neil Howe of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, two contributors to this volume. "Today," they continue, "it dominates almost any discussion of America's long-term fiscal, economic, or foreign-policy direction." Demography is the most predictable of the social sciences: children born in the last five years will be the new workers, voters, soldiers, and potential insurgents of 2025 and the political elites of the 2050s. Whether in the West or the developing world, political scientists urgently need to understand the tectonics of demography in order to grasp the full context of today's political developments. This book begins to fill the gap from a global and historical perspective and with the hope that scholars and policymakers will take its insights on board to develop enlightened policies for our collective future.

Author : Thomas M. Shapiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039876847

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Population Control Politics by Thomas M. Shapiro Pdf

Author : Matthew Connelly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674262768

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Fatal Misconception by Matthew Connelly Pdf

Fatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake humanity by policing national borders and breeding better people. As the population of the world doubled once, and then again, well-meaning people concluded that only population control could preserve the “quality of life.” This movement eventually spanned the globe and carried out a series of astonishing experiments, from banning Asian immigration to paying poor people to be sterilized. Supported by affluent countries, foundations, and non-governmental organizations, the population control movement experimented with ways to limit population growth. But it had to contend with the Catholic Church’s ban on contraception and nationalist leaders who warned of “race suicide.” The ensuing struggle caused untold suffering for those caught in the middle—particularly women and children. It culminated in the horrors of sterilization camps in India and the one-child policy in China. Matthew Connelly offers the first global history of a movement that changed how people regard their children and ultimately the face of humankind. It was the most ambitious social engineering project of the twentieth century, one that continues to alarm the global community. Though promoted as a way to lift people out of poverty—perhaps even to save the earth—family planning became a means to plan other people‘s families. With its transnational scope and exhaustive research into such archives as Planned Parenthood and the newly opened Vatican Secret Archives, Connelly’s withering critique uncovers the cost inflicted by a humanitarian movement gone terribly awry and urges renewed commitment to the reproductive rights of all people.

Author : Elizabeth Liagin,Information Project for Africa
Publisher : Project
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1886719047

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Excessive Force by Elizabeth Liagin,Information Project for Africa Pdf

A UNIQUE, SURPRISING & SOMETIMES FRIGHTENING STUDY OF THE U.S. FOREIGN AID PROGRAM & ITS IMPACT ON PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD. This book is the result of almost ten years of research, hundreds of Freedom of Information Act requests & travel on four continents. It examines the role of the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, AID, the Department of Defense & other branches of government in a clearly defined strategy to contain the rise to power of the emerging states of the southern hemisphere. MUCH OF THE MATERIAL IN THE BOOK HAS BEEN RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED & CANNOT BE OBTAINED ELSEWHERE. The book also presents comprehensive documentation of subversive activities carried out under the "development assistance program". Including the clandestine recruitment of "in-place" agents, secret payments to influence policymakers, conditional lending & grant assistance, large-scale disinformation campaigns, cultural & intellectual warfare & falsely attributed propaganda. THIS BOOK IS A MUST FOR UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES & SERIOUS RESEARCHERS. Topics covered: Foreign Relations, Population, Reproductive Rights, Race Relations, Development Economics, International Agencies, Covert Operations, Military & Security Studies. Bulk prices available on request to retailers & booksellers. ORDERS & INQUIRIES: Information Project for Africa, Inc., Box 43345, Washington, DC 20010.

Author : William Petersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : PSU:000004032458

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The Politics of Population by William Petersen Pdf

Author : Karl Ittmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289543

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Problem of Great Importance by Karl Ittmann Pdf

This volume examines the significant role population science played in British colonial policy in the twentieth century as the imperial state attempted to control colonial populations using new agricultural and public health policies, private family planning initiatives, and by imposing limits over migration and settlement. A Problem of Great Importance traces British imperial efforts to engage metropolitan activists who could improve its knowledge of colonial demography and design programs to influence colonial population trends. While imperial population control failed to achieve its goals, British institutions and experts would be central to the development of postcolonial population programs. Researchers, scholars, and historians of British history will gain greater perspective into the effects of demography on imperial governance and colonial and postcolonial British views of their place in the world.

Author : Diana Coole
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509523443

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Should We Control World Population? by Diana Coole Pdf

By 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion. Having recently surpassed 7.5 billion, it has trebled since 1950. Are such numbers sustainable, given a deepening environmental crisis? Can so many live well? Or should world population be controlled? The population question, one of the twentieth century’s most bitterly contested issues, is being debated once again. In this compelling book, Diana Coole examines some of the profound political and ethical questions involved. Are ethical objections to government interference with individuals’ reproductive freedom definitive? Is it possible to limit population in a non-coercive way that is consistent with liberal-democratic values? Interweaving erudite original analysis with an accessible overview of the crucial debates, Coole argues that a case can be made for reducing our numbers in ways that are compatible with human rights. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in one of the most important questions facing our planet, from concerned citizens to students of politics, sociology, political economy, gender studies and environmental studies.

Author : Betsy Hartmann
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X001246545

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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs by Betsy Hartmann Pdf

Looks at government population policies in the U.S., China, and South America, discusses family planning, contraception, and sterilization, and examines the political, economic, and social consequences.

Author : Achim Goerres,Pieter Vanhuysse
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030730659

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Global Political Demography by Achim Goerres,Pieter Vanhuysse Pdf

This open access book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040. Leading social scientists from a wide range of disciplines discuss, for the first time, all major political and policy aspects of population change as they play out differently in each major world region: North and South America; Sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA region; Western and East Central Europe; Russia, Belarus and Ukraine; East Asia; Southeast Asia; subcontinental India, Pakistan and Bangladesh; Australia and New Zealand. These macro-regional analyses are completed by cross-cutting global analyses of migration, religion and poverty, and age profiles and intra-state conflicts. From all angles, this book shows how strongly contextualized the political management and the political consequences of population change are. While long-term population ageing and short-term migration fluctuations present structural conditions, political actors play a key role in (mis-)managing, manipulating, and (under-)planning population change, which in turn determines how citizens in different groups react.