Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth
Global Population seeks to explain and untangle the great knot of ideas, politics, and public discussion that constituted this world problem: inherited from the nineteenth century; announced in Geneva in 1927; watched warily by the league of nations; acted upon by imperial states, decolonizing state...
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oai:lib.umy.ac.id:528762021-06-16T13:06:25ZGlobal Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on EarthAlison BashfordPopulation—Social aspects, Population—Economic aspects, Population—HistoryGlobal Population seeks to explain and untangle the great knot of ideas, politics, and public discussion that constituted this world problem: inherited from the nineteenth century; announced in Geneva in 1927; watched warily by the league of nations; acted upon by imperial states, decolonizing states, and neocolonial states; and after World War ii, acknowledged by the early united nations (un). it was a phenomenon that came deeply to shape the very idea of “development,†the demographically defined three worlds, and for some, an aspirational “one world.†it is hardly surprising that so many experts from so many different disciplines and traditions turned to think about the great changes in population trends across time and space. but how was it comprehended and created? “Population†is often taken to be a sexual and reproductive issue in the first instance. yet it was a spatial and economic issue too, a question of land cultivation and food production. More than that, the population question persistently raised territorial matters: colonization, migration, and ultimately sovereignty. and what was at stake? Commentators at the time would have said unequivocally: war and peace. density in relation to cultivable land—the crowded and the empty parts of the planet—was the problem of the era, linked to war, even causally many of them thought. it was the spatial context combined with the biological phenomenon of population growth—rarely just the latter—that created a sense of global crisis after World War i. This was a proposition that simultaneously held prospects for global division and for global singularity. The world population problem as formulated from the 1920s onward, then, was as much about geopolitics as it was about biopolitics. This book traces the twentieth-century story of how a geopolitical problem about sovereignty over land gradually morphed into a biopolitical solution, entailing sovereignty over one’s person. it does so through investigation of the creators and the keepers of population knowledge. Global Population is only partly about the experts on human reproduction and sexuality—medical doctors, human physiologists, birth control lobbyists. and it is only partly about “demography,†the discipline devoted to population that emerged over the early twentieth century. indeed, of the long list of distinguished participants at the first World Population Conference, only two called themselves “demographers,†although they were perhaps not as idiosyncratic as the other outliers: two self-identified “Explorers,†plus a humble “author,†Wells.8 They were all outnumbered by those whose expertise lay with land, food, and territory: plant geneticists, agriculturalists, soil scientists, scholars of international law and international relations, geographers, and economists. 9 after all, those troubled by population growth and distribution were concerned with the fertility of soil as least as much as the fertility of women.Columbia University Press2014eBookebook 528Bahasa Inggrishttp://oaipmh-jogjalib.umy.ac.idkatalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=52876 |
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Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta |
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Perpustakaan Yogyakarta |
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Bahasa Inggris |
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Population—Social aspects, Population—Economic aspects, Population—History |
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Population—Social aspects, Population—Economic aspects, Population—History Alison Bashford Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth |
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Global Population seeks to explain and untangle the great knot of ideas,
politics, and public discussion that constituted this world problem: inherited
from the nineteenth century; announced in Geneva in 1927; watched
warily by the league of nations; acted upon by imperial states, decolonizing
states, and neocolonial states; and after World War ii, acknowledged by the early united nations (un). it was a phenomenon that came deeply to shape
the very idea of “development,†the demographically defined three worlds,
and for some, an aspirational “one world.†it is hardly surprising that so
many experts from so many different disciplines and traditions turned to
think about the great changes in population trends across time and space.
but how was it comprehended and created? “Population†is often taken to
be a sexual and reproductive issue in the first instance. yet it was a spatial
and economic issue too, a question of land cultivation and food production.
More than that, the population question persistently raised territorial matters:
colonization, migration, and ultimately sovereignty. and what was at
stake? Commentators at the time would have said unequivocally: war and
peace. density in relation to cultivable land—the crowded and the empty
parts of the planet—was the problem of the era, linked to war, even causally
many of them thought. it was the spatial context combined with the
biological phenomenon of population growth—rarely just the latter—that
created a sense of global crisis after World War i. This was a proposition that
simultaneously held prospects for global division and for global singularity.
The world population problem as formulated from the 1920s onward,
then, was as much about geopolitics as it was about biopolitics. This book
traces the twentieth-century story of how a geopolitical problem about sovereignty
over land gradually morphed into a biopolitical solution, entailing
sovereignty over one’s person. it does so through investigation of the creators
and the keepers of population knowledge. Global Population is only
partly about the experts on human reproduction and sexuality—medical
doctors, human physiologists, birth control lobbyists. and it is only partly
about “demography,†the discipline devoted to population that emerged over
the early twentieth century. indeed, of the long list of distinguished participants
at the first World Population Conference, only two called themselves
“demographers,†although they were perhaps not as idiosyncratic as
the other outliers: two self-identified “Explorers,†plus a humble “author,â€
Wells.8 They were all outnumbered by those whose expertise lay with land,
food, and territory: plant geneticists, agriculturalists, soil scientists, scholars
of international law and international relations, geographers, and economists.
9 after all, those troubled by population growth and distribution were
concerned with the fertility of soil as least as much as the fertility of women. |
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Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth |
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Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth |
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Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth |
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Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth |
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Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth |
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global population: history, geopolitics, and life on earth |
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Columbia University Press |
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2014 |
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http://oaipmh-jogjalib.umy.ac.idkatalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=52876 |
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ebook 528 |
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14.79448 |