Confronting populationism: Feminist challenges to population control in an era of climate change

Hendrixson, Anne; Ojeda, Diana; Sasser, Jade S.; Nadimpally, Sarojini; Foley, Ellen; Bhatia, Rajani

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2019.1639634

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“…Population growth has been of interest to scholars as early as the 19th century. Malthus theory had raised concern about possible famine and the world not being able to support itself based on population growth (Deliu and Ilea, 2018;Hendrixson et al, 2020). Fortunately, industrial advancement in agriculture and other areas did not allow the fears to materialize.…”

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Population growth and human resource utilization nexus in Nigeria

Adeosun

Popogbe

2020

JHASS

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Purpose Population growth has remained a key issue facing developing economies in the world. While developed countries are experiencing diminished or negative population growth, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria are having population growth above the economic growth rate. With the deadline for the sustainable development goals approaching, attention is increasingly being focused on population growth and human capital development. Extant literature focused on population growth, human resource utilization and economic growth but this study aims to examine the effect of population growth on human resource utilization. Design/methodology/approach Using secondary data for the period 1990-2018, the study conducted unit root test and co-integration analyses to determine the stationarity and correlation in the long-run in the variables. The study used the error correction model to ascertain the speed at which shocks can be corrected in the long-run. Granger causality test was also carried out to ascertain the direction of causality among the variables. Findings The empirical results revealed that population growth has a negative and significant effect on human resource utilization. The study also revealed that unidirectional causality runs from employment rate to population growth rate and a unidirectional causality runs from employment growth rate to expected years of schooling. The Nigerian Government needs to not only control population growth but also focus on the quality of education. Originality/value The paper provides insights into the relationship between population growth and human capital utilization in Nigeria focusing on the 1986-2018 period.

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Population growth and human resource utilization nexus in Nigeria

Adeosun

Popogbe

2020

JHASS

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“…Underexplored in this incisive body of work, however, is the linkage between interventions in the reproductive body and the everyday reproduction of social life, that is, the relationship between “biological” reproduction – what Lewis (2019) calls “gestational labor” – and social reproduction. I extend feminist work on emergent forms of population governance that posit family planning as a fundamental response to global environmental and economic instability (Bendix et al, 2020; Hendrixson et al, 2020; Wilson, 2017), as well as on the responsibilisation of certain women for the problems of Zika specifically (Patchin, 2020; Rivera Amarillo & Camargo, 2019). Exploring the logics that underpin birth control‐focused Zika intervention allows me not only to consider the ways race‐, class‐, and nation‐based family planning experiments have (and have not) changed in recent years, but also to contextualise the unfolding of these experiments in the everyday lives of those women drawn into them.…”

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For the sake of the child: The economisation of reproduction in the Zika public health emergency

Patchin

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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Feminist work on population governance has tracked its racial dynamics, its varied attempts to expunge the poor from the future, and its violent wresting of control over reproduction away from women. Attention has recently turned to “economised” understandings of possible and proto‐life that take the aggregate reproductivity of certain groups of women and girls as a means of shaping economic futures, which emerged as the dominant form of population governance during the Cold War. Underexplored in this incisive body of work, however, is the relationship between the reproductive body and social reproduction. This paper advances feminist work on adjudications of life worth in government policy and scientific expertise, and critical political economic work on global health governance, by exploring experiments in family planning. I do this through a discussion of the Zika virus, the recent re‐emergence of which was framed as an economic problem: experts “priced” a single case of microcephaly at US$10 million or more across a lifetime. Specifically, I examine a programme of contraceptive provision to women in Puerto Rico as part of the public health emergency, which I show to have possible eugenic effects. I argue that in the global politics of public and reproductive health, relatively new neoliberal health metrics have joined up with eugenicist impulses to value life according to future economic contributions. Such valuations of life focalise the reproductive body while abandoning the social reproductive body. The relationship between reproductive labour and social reproduction warrants further scrutiny, for as we careen through uncertain ecological futures, and as discourses about limited Earth for humans amid environmental crisis and limited funding for future children thicken, the reproductivity of certain women and girls is being tinkered with by experts, governments, and private institutions in new ways.

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“…Assim, elegemos alguns tópicos para discussão dentro desse arcabouço teórico--político que iluminam a análise aqui proposta sobre as formas atuais de controle reprodutivo via métodos contraceptivos reversíveis de longa duração. No primeiro momento, abordamos as noções de "governança reprodutiva" (Morgan, 2019;Morgan;Roberts, 2012), "populacionismos" (Bhatia et al, 2020;Hendrixson, 2019;Hendrixson et al, 2020;) e "coerção contraceptiva" (Senderowicz, 2019), em estreita articulação com os dispositivos de sexualidade (Foucault, 1999) e de racialidade (Carneiro, 2005), para emoldurar as inquietações teóricas pertinentes ao objeto em estudo. Em seguida, centramo-nos nas expressivas dificuldades que cercam a contracepção na vida das mulheres, como um ato relacional e permeado pela hierarquia de gênero, para situar como os métodos LARC vêm ocupando um espaço precioso nos processos crescentes de biomedicalização (Clarke et al, 2003(Clarke et al, , 2010Shim, 2011) da vida em aliança com o pragmatismo neoliberal.…”

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“…Reunindo um conjunto amplo de trabalhos críticos em torno de grandes e celebrados projetos transnacionais sobre planejamento reprodutivo na última década, que tem nos métodos LARC a principal estratégia de intervenção, 4 Hendrixson e colegas (Bendix et al, 2020;Bhatia et al, 2020;Hendrixson, 2019;Hendrixson et al, 2020) decodificam as novas formas de acionamento do controle populacional, bem mais sofisticadas e sutis, articuladas ao ideário dos direitos sexuais e reprodutivos e às metas de cumprimento dos objetivos do desenvolvimento sustentável (ODS) no âmbito da Organização das Nações Unidas. Em um conjunto sólido de trabalhos, as estratégias de difusão de métodos contraceptivos de longa duração, considerados a "primeira linha" entre os métodos disponíveis, acabam por acentuar novas sujeições e subordinações das mulheres "beneficiárias" de tais programas, residentes em países pobres.…”

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Vidas precárias: tecnologias de governo e modos de gestão da fecundidade de mulheres “vulneráveis”

Brandão

Cabral

2021

Horiz. antropol.

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Resumo Lacunas no planejamento reprodutivo, após 25 anos da Lei de Planejamento Familiar, no Brasil, têm promovido uma ressignificação do controle reprodutivo. As expressivas dificuldades para realização da laqueadura tubária no Sistema Único de Saúde têm permitido o florescimento de estratégias governamentais fomentando acesso estratificado e racializado a métodos contraceptivos reversíveis de longa duração (LARC). A pesquisa etnográfica apoiou-se em fontes documentais sobre iniciativas institucionais para inclusão de LARC no sistema público de saúde, tomando-se o município de São Paulo como caso empírico paradigmático. Envoltas no ideário da cidadania, argumenta-se que tais tecnologias de governo são acionadas na direção contrária à ampliação de direitos sexuais e reprodutivos, para reificar estereótipos sociais que subtraem a autonomia reprodutiva das mulheres. Tomando o conceito de “coerção contraceptiva” como categoria de análise, demonstra-se como tais expedientes ferem o paradigma da justiça reprodutiva no Brasil ao se institucionalizar a exclusão social pelo útero das mulheres “vulneráveis”.

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Confronting populationism: Feminist challenges to population control in an era of climate change

Cited by 39 publications

References 26 publications

Population growth and human resource utilization nexus in Nigeria

Population growth and human resource utilization nexus in Nigeria

For the sake of the child: The economisation of reproduction in the Zika public health emergency

Vidas precárias: tecnologias de governo e modos de gestão da fecundidade de mulheres “vulneráveis”

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