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Title: | Malthus travels: A cultural history of the population crisis, 1945-1995 |
Author(s): | Greene, Ronald Walter |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Grossberg, Lawrence |
Department / Program: | Geography Speech Communication Sociology, Demography |
Discipline: | Geography Speech Communication Sociology, Demography |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Geography
Speech Communication Sociology, Demography |
Abstract: | This study maps the invention, circulation and regulation of the population crisis from 1945 to 1995. I conceptualize the population crisis as a complex field of practical reasoning occupied by different elements--human technologies, discourse strategies, institutions, and populations. The primary theoretical concern of this project is to describe how the population crisis emerged as a particular "governmental technology" dedicated to policing reproductive behaviors. As a cultural history, this study will analyze how the population crisis, as a policy formation, problematized and publicized the habits, morals and manners of specific populations in order to regulate population growth. This study tracks both an international and a national trajectory in the circulation of the population crisis. Internationally, I focus on the relationship between the United States and the United Nations in the creation of the population crisis. In particular, I focus on how the United States emerged as a leader in distributing demographic and family planning expertise as a means to invent, study and disarm the population bomb. Nationally, I focus on how the population formation targeted poor populations, African-American city populations, and middle class populations in the United States. I conclude this project by mapping the elements that are currently re-organizing the governing techniques of the population formation as Malthus prepares to travel to the twenty-first century. |
Issue Date: | 1995 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/23849 |
Rights Information: | Copyright 1995 Greene, Ronald Walter |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2011-05-07 |
Identifier in Online Catalog: | AAI9543596 |
OCLC Identifier: | (UMI)AAI9543596 |
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois