Jesus College, Cambridge, UK, 2 – 4 July 2024
The interdisciplinary research group who first described a “Great Acceleration,” c. 1950, produced a suite of now-famous graphs depicting large-scale socio-economic changes. Significantly, the first displays world net population growth. In subsequent analysis of the Anthropocene, however, stark late modern changes in human fertility, mortality, ageing, and consumption have probably been the least discussed of all the variables. This is one measure of the highly successful critique of the problematisation of population. This small meeting brings key scholars of the Anthropocene, of population, of reproductive justice and of political ecology and economy together. How do we think about population in the Anthropocene?
