A world of populations : transnational perspectives on demography in the twentieth century / edited by Heinrich Hartmann and Corinna R. Unger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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 -- "Reproduction" as a new demographic issue in interwar Poland / Morgane Labbé -- 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 -- "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 -- Revisiting the early 1970s Commoner-Ehrlich debate about population and environment: dueling critiques of production and consumption in a global age / Thomas Robertson -- Counting people: the emerging field of demography and the mobilization of the social sciences in the formation of policy in South Korea since 1948 / John P. DiMoia -- Laparoscopy as a technology of population control: a use-centered history of surgical sterilization / Jesse Olszynko-Gryn -- A twofold discovery of population: assessing the Turkish population by its "knowledge, attitudes, and practices," 1962-1980 / Heinrich Hartmann -- Seeing population as a problem: influences of the construction of population knowledge on Kenyan politics (1940s to 1980s) / Maria Dörnemann -- Filtering demography and biomedical technologies: Melanesian nurses and global population concerns / Alexandra Widmer.

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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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