Population lobby

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Called population Lobby ( English population control establishment; population Establishment ) political scientists occupy such as Betsy Hartmann various actors that encourage the reduction of global population growth are running.

According to this point of view, government organizations, transnational organizations, foundations and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), politicians, scientists, corporations and activists form a network that serves the “ dogma of overpopulation ” ( Malthus 1798).

The assumption that certain elites would make plans to reduce the population is part of various conspiracy theories , such as that there is a conspiracy against the African Americans or that about the allegedly planned New World Order .

Organizations

According to the point of view, the most influential organizations of the population establishment include:

history

At the level of the United Nations (UN), population agendas aimed at the fertility of women began from 1965 ( World Population Conference Belgrade). From 1969 the World Health Organization (WHO) began to integrate “family planning” and “mother-child health” into “family health programs”. For the first time, Bonnie Mass was critical of the agendas of the population lobby in Population Target .

Paradigm Shift 1994

While before 1994 many feminists were critical of coercive (sterilization) measures or coercive measures against women in the third world , the feminist consensus changed from the 1994 World Population Conference in Cairo. This was achieved, among other things, through reinterpretation (reframing) of family planning programs ; there was now talk of “ reproductive rights and reproductive health ” at the UN level.

literature

  • Betsy Hartmann: Reproductive Rights and Wrongs. The Global Politics of Population Control , Boston 1995.
  • Bonnie Mass: The Population Target. The Political Economy of Population Control in Latin America , Virgina 1976.
  • Mohan Rao, Sarah Sexton (Eds.): Markets and Malthus. Population, Gender and Health in Neoliberal Times. Sage Publications, Delhi / London 2010, ISBN 978-81-321-0297-7 (English; excerpt in the Google book search).
  • Ines Smyth: Gender analysis of family planning. Beyond the feminist vs. population control debate. In: Feminist Economics. Volume 2, No. 2, 1996, pp. 63-86 (English; summary: doi: 10.1080 / 13545709610001707656 ).
  • Susanne Schultz: Neoliberal Transformations of International Population Policy. Post-Cairo politics from the perspective of governmentality. In: Periphery. Volume 23, No. 92, Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2003, pp. 452–480 ( PDF: 96 kB, 29 p. On budrich-journals.de).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hartmann: Population control I. Birth of an ideology . 1997, PMID 9285280 . Population control II. The population establishment today . PMID 9285281
  2. a b c Annemarie Sancar, Leena Schmitter: Population Policy, Reproductive Rights & Feminism. Population policy as a panacea - or: how (too) simple arguments cloud the view . In: Same: The Scary Ecologists. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2014; unheimliche-oekologen.ch (PDF: 328 kB, 12 p.)
  3. ^ Ted Remington: African Americans. In: Peter Knight (Ed.): Conspiracy Theories in American History. To Encyclopedia . ABC Clio, Santa Barbara / Denver / London 2003, Volume 1, p. 38 f .; Jack Z. bratich: AIDS . In: ibid, p. 46; Michael Barkun : A Culture of Conspiracy. Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. 2nd Edition. University of California Press, Berkeley 2013, p. 61; Aaron John Gulyas: Conspiracy Theories: The Roots, Themes and Propagation of Paranoid Political and Cultural Narratives . McFarland, Jefferson 2016, pp. 139 and 141-150.
  4. Betsy Hartmann: 7) The Population Establishment Today. In: Same: Reproductive Rights and Wrongs. The Global Politics of Population Control. Revised edition. South End Press, Boston 1995, ISBN 0-89608-491-4 , pp. 113 ff. (English; first edition 1987; page views in the Google book search).
  5. Susanne Schultz: Hegemony - Governmentality - Biopower. Reproductive Risks and the Transformation of International Population Policy. Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-89691-636-5 , p. 282 ( review ).
  6. Steven W. Mosher : Population Control. Real costs, illusory benefits. Transaction, New Brunswick / London 2008, ISBN 978-1-4128-0713-5 , p. 148 (English; side view in the Google book search).
  7. UN: Outcomes on Population
  8. ^ Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Peggy McDonough: Agenda-setting in women's health. In: Jasmine Gideon (Ed.): Handbook on Gender and Health . Cheltenham and Northampton 2016, p. 27.
  9. ^ Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Peggy McDonough: Agenda-setting in women's health. In: Jasmine Gideon (Ed.): Handbook on Gender and Health Cheltenham and Northampton 2016, p. 27.
  10. Diana Hummel: The population discourse. Demographic knowledge and political power , Wiesbaden 2000, p. 125.
  11. Ursula GT Müller : Feminism a political home - the left half of the world. The political positioning of feminism. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-19452-3 , p. 96/97 ( page views in the Google book search)
  12. Diana Hummel : The population discourse. Demographic knowledge and political power. Springer, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 978-3-8100-2963-8 , p. 106 ( side view in the Google book search)
  13. Sarah Sexton, Sumati Nair, Preeti Kirbat: A Decade After Cairo: Women's Health in a Free Market Economy. In: MMS Bulletin. No. 94, Medicus Mundi Switzerland, October 2004 (English; full text on medicusmundi.ch)