The Discovery of Population Politics and Sociobiological Discourses in Russia

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the dramatic emergence of modern welfare states across Europe. Why did this transformation take form? Was this process uniform across Europe? And what did it mean for relations between individuals and states? This chapter suggests that European social policies in the early twentieth century were characterized by an emphasis on integration and community. This perspective chimed with widespread utopian aspirations for social improvement voiced across the political spectrum and across the Continent. Nonetheless, the relative emphasis on integration and community varied across Europe and over time. Moreover, associated quests for an ideal future held the potential to be both enabling and oppressive. This chapter highlights two related themes that reveal these complexities: work and population politics. It charts developments in social legislation across Europe, including eugenics, labour, and family policies, and it traces the impact of transnational reform movements and international organizations.

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How Population Became an Environmental Problem

On Infertile Ground ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479873432.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 49-77

Author(s):

Jade S. Sasser

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Environmental Problem ◽

Environmental Problems ◽

Political Advocacy ◽

Environmental Sciences ◽

Population Politics ◽

History Of ◽

A Site

Chapter 2 explores the history of how population came to be known as an environmental problem, emerging through debates about eugenics, war, geopolitical stability, and land use. I begin the chapter by exploring how population was first identified as a central problem of state-making and security, and its role in the evolution of ecological sciences. Next, I trace the ways the environmental sciences and population politics have entwined and overlapped in subsequent decades. Throughout, I analyze the ways knowledge production linking population to environmental problems moved between political advocacy motivated by concerns about war and geopolitical security, concerns about planetary limits, and a site of scientific knowledge development and struggle.

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Chapter 1. Languages in New Zealand: Population, Politics and Policy

Bilingual Children's Language and Literacy Development ◽

10.21832/9781853597138-003 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 8-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Roger Peddie

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Zealand Population ◽

Population Politics

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Population & Politics

Africa’s International Relations ◽

10.4324/9780429051630-13 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 246-261

Author(s):

Ali A. Mazrui

Keyword(s):

Population Politics

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“Population Politics” at the End of Empire: Migration and Sovereignty in Ottoman Eastern Rumelia, 1877–1886

Comparative Studies in Society and History ◽

10.1017/s0010417513000479 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

pp. 955-985

Author(s):

Anna M. Mirkova

Keyword(s):

World War I ◽

Ottoman Empire ◽

Political Representation ◽

State Building ◽

Peace Treaty ◽

World War ◽

Political Autonomy ◽

The Balkans ◽

Nation States ◽

Population Politics

AbstractThis article explores the migrations of Turkish Muslims after the 1878 Peace Treaty of Berlin, which severed much of the Balkans from the Ottoman Empire as fully independent nation-states or as nominally dependent polities in the borderlands of the empire. I focus on one such polity—the administratively autonomous Ottoman province of Eastern Rumelia—which, in wrestling to reconcile liberal principles of equality and political representation understood in ethno-religious terms, prompted emigration of Turkish Muslims while enabling Bulgarian Christian hegemony. Scholars have studied Muslim emigration from the Balkans as the Ottoman Empire gradually lost hold of the region, emphasizing deleterious effects of nationalism and aggressive state-building in the region. Here I look at migration at empire's end, and more specifically at the management of migration as constitutive of sovereignty. The Ottoman government asserted its suzerainty by claiming to protect the rights of Eastern Rumelia's Muslims. The Bulgarian dominated administration of Eastern Rumelia claimed not only administrative but also political autonomy by trying to contain the grievances of Turkish Muslims as a domestic issue abused by ill-meaning outsiders, all the while insisting that the province protected the rights of all subjects. Ultimately, a “corporatist” model of subjecthood obtained in Eastern Rumelia, which fused the traditional religious categorization of Ottoman subjects with an ethnic one under the umbrella of representative government. The tension between group belonging and individual politicization that began unfolding in Eastern Rumelia became a major dilemma of the post-Ottoman world and other post-imperial societies after World War I.

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