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SUMMARY:Samuël Coghe (Freie Universität Berlin)\, Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography\, health and transimperialism in Colonial Angola (Cambridge\, 2022).
DESCRIPTION:Online\, via Zoom. Register to attend by clicking here \nAbout the book: Population Politics in the Tropics explores colonial population policies in Portuguese Angola between 1890 and 1945 from a transimperial perspective. Using a wide array of previously unused sources and multilingual archival research from Angola\, Portugal and beyond\, Samuël Coghe sheds new light on the history of colonial Angola\, showing how population policies were conceived\, implemented and contested. He shows why and how doctors\, administrators\, missionaries and other colonial actors tried to grasp and quantify demographic change and ‘improve’ the health conditions\, reproductive regimes and migration patterns of Angola’s ‘native’ population. Coghe argues that these interventions were inextricably linked to pervasive fears of depopulation and underpopulation\, but that their implementation was often hampered by weak state structures\, internal conflicts and multiple forms of African agency. Coghe’s fresh analysis of demography\, health and migration in colonial Angola challenges common ideas of Portuguese colonial exceptionalism.
URL:https://historyandpopulation.com/event/samuel-coghe-freie-universitat-berlin-population-politics-in-the-tropics-demography-health-and-transimperialism-in-colonial-angola-cambridge-2022/
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SUMMARY:Laureate Seminar: Nicole Bourbonnais\, "The Gospel of Family Planning"
DESCRIPTION:Online\, via Zoom. Register to attend by clicking here \n“The Gospel of Family Planning: Conversion\, Missionary Work\, and Spirituality in the Mid-20th Century Planned Parenthood Movement” \nIn the early twentieth century\, rising population growth rates in the decolonizing world became a subject of international concern and intervention for a variety of actors\, from feminists to eugenicists to neo-Malthusians. Recent studies have explored the consolidation of a “population establishment” in the post-WWII period: a cohort of demographers and other experts (primarily men) tasked with advising dwindling colonial empires and emerging nationalist governments on how best to reign in their populations in the name of economic development and global security. But the mid-century planned parenthood movement also pulled in a more eclectic group of doctors\, nurses\, social workers\, charity ladies and wives of colonial officials and international bureaucrats who portrayed their work as part of a humanitarian – even spiritual – mission to save the lives of women and children. These actors joined together in local\, regional and international voluntary associations and sent out fieldworkers of their own (primarily women) to spread “the gospel of family planning” at home and abroad. \nThis seminar will use the internal reports and correspondence of several fieldworkers from the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and Pathfinder Fund from the 1950s and 1960s to explore this element of the family planning movement. It will focus on fieldworkers’ use of emotive language and religious metaphors to describe their “conversion” to the cause and their birth control “missions” abroad\, as well as their attempts to portray the movement as apolitical\, transcendental\, and religiously sanctioned. Exploring their trajectories allows us to situate the history of the movement more firmly at the intersection of colonial missionary traditions and modern humanitarian activism\, with all the contradictions this location entails. \nDr. Nicole Bourbonnais is an Associate Professor of International History and Politics and Co-Director of the Gender Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva\, Switzerland. Her work explores the history of reproductive politics\, decolonization\, feminism\, and maternal health. She is author of Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands (Cambridge University Press\, 2016) and is currently working on a history of the twentieth-century global family planning movement.
URL:https://historyandpopulation.com/event/nicole-bourbonnais-graduate-institute-of-international-development-studies-geneva/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Laureate Centre for History and Population":MAILTO:historyandpopulation@unsw.edu.au
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SUMMARY:Aprajita Sarcar (Centre de Sciences Humaines\, New Delhi)\, 'The Family Within a Triangle: The creation\, circulation and afterlife of a family planning campaign'
DESCRIPTION:Online\, via Zoom. Register to attend by clicking here \nThe paper explores the visual artefact that represented the national family planning programme in India: Hum Do Hamare Do (We are Two\, will have Two Children). The campaign was created in 1967. It consisted of a couple with two children: a boy and a girl in an inverted triangle. The inverted red triangle\, simultaneous to the campaign\, became the symbol of the international family planning movement. Tracing its creation and circulation helps unearth the assumptions of developmental modernity that guided its ideation. The slogan and its visual partner travelled across and beyond India to signify the nearest family planning centre. Posters\, signposts and travelling theatrical performances showcased the power of the symbol and its impact on the developing world. The paper will trace the history of this campaign and ask what factors enabled its creation. The mythical family within the inverted triangle attained a life beyond governmental advocacy to become a cultural marker of modernity in postcolonial India. In many ways\, it became a visual representation of the Indian middle class. \nAnxiety of population explosion steered India to become the first nation in the world to have an official policy on population control. The worry of burgeoning numbers was tied to nation-building through an economic rationality- no matter ho much the nation was planning the economy\, building dams\, technological institutes and hospitals\, the per capita income could not rise because of increase in population. This line of reasoning reverberated across politics of power blocs of Cold War. The paper knits this context into the narrative of the campaign and explains how it became a way for the idea of the small family as the modern family to retain legitimacy even through the years of forced sterilizations of the Emergency (1975-77).  Such an investigation is also useful to understand the histories of mass media-led public health campaigns in the global south.
URL:https://historyandpopulation.com/event/aprajita-sarcar-centre-de-sciences-humaines-new-delhi-the-family-within-a-triangle-the-creation-circulation-and-afterlife-of-a-family-planning-campaign/
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CATEGORIES:Laureate Centre Seminar
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SUMMARY:Andrew Moeller (Oxford University)\, 'Be Fruitful and Multiply? Anglican justifications for fertility-manipulation schemes in interwar England'
DESCRIPTION:Online\, via Zoom. Register to attend by clicking here \nIn 1930\, the Church of England became the first major Christian denomination in Europe or North America to formally condone the use of birth control. The Bishop of Winchester\, Theodore Woods\, led the reform campaign\, and he did so for the expressed purpose of encouraging an increase in the birthrate amongst the English middle and upper classes. \nDrawing upon Woods as a case study\, this paper explores the moral logic offered by Anglican leaders on behalf of their widespread efforts to manipulate both the ‘quantity’ and ‘quality’ of the English population during the interwar period. As it will show\, such efforts were often justified as a means of tangibly combating ‘erroneous’ conceptions of human purpose\, or the matter of to what ends a person ought to direct their life. I conclude by examining how the moral framework utilized by Woods and other Anglican leaders might help explain the pervasiveness and enduring appeal of fertility-manipulation schemes amongst religious and nonreligious actors in England (and beyond) during the first half of the twentieth century.
URL:https://historyandpopulation.com/event/andrew-moeller-oxford-university-be-fruitful-and-multiply-anglican-justifications-for-fertility-manipulation-schemes-in-interwar-england/
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SUMMARY:Tina Johnson (Saint Vincent College\, PA)\, "100 Years of China’s Population Strategies: From Sanger to the Three-Child Policy"
DESCRIPTION:Online\, via Zoom. Register to attend by clicking here \n2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Margaret Sanger’s first visit to China.  Her visit prompted public discussions of birth control in the service of improving China’s population that continue to the present day.  These conversations and subsequent policies expanded to include many aspects of reproductive health like screenings for sexually transmitted infections and cervical cancer.  They also corresponded with conflicting policies through the 1960s\, as (primarily) women’s calls for more control over reproduction clashed with paternalistic pronatalism.  China’s restrictive population policies in the following decades have today given way to incentivizing birth to balance an aging population\, with the “three-child policy” announced in May 2021.  In all cases\, the Chinese state’s focus on women’s fertility and their reproductive health is the fundamental method of implementing population policy.
URL:https://historyandpopulation.com/event/tina-johnson-saint-vincent-college-pa/
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