PHM-Exch> Feminist Challenges to Population Control in an Era of Climate Change

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Sarojini N. <sarojinipr at gmail.com>--


We are proud to announce the publication of “Confronting Populationism:
Feminist Challenges to Population Control in an Era of Climate
Change,” in *Gender,
Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography*
<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/current#b7689c1d-7975-46ed-aaf9-3a2939834054-b44f4d8e-2a9f-4411-ae51-0b3c835c6698>*.
*The themed section addresses contemporary forms of population control
through a feminist critique of populationism. We build on Angus and
Butler’s (2011) definition of populationism as an ideological position
which holds that population is the primary driver of social, political and
ecological problems. We analyze the interwoven demographic, geographic and
biopolitical dimensions of populationism through our demo, geo and
biopopulationism framework.



Using this framework, we expand on the typical understanding of population
control as a top-down, coercive and at times violent curtailment of
fertility, most often targeting poor women of color, particularly in the
global South but also in the North. While we analyze current manifestations
of fertility control that continue this destructive legacy, we also point
to a wider set of processes that restrict bodies, families and communities,
produce segmented and segregated spaces, and determine whose lives are
valuable and reproducible, and whose are not. These processes are of
particular significance because of the ways that they produce, reinforce,
and naturalize inequalities along lines of race, class, gender and
geography. They also perpetuate the idea of an ongoing war of absolute
humanity against absolute nature.



“Confronting Populationism” came out of a collective rethinking of today’s
population politics from feminist perspectives. We write in the spirit of
the feminist resistance to population control from the heyday of the
international women’s health movement and recognize in particular the
foundational work of writer, activist and teacher, Betsy Hartmann, in
challenging population control.



With this themed section, we seek to build bridges and forge connections.
We hope to contribute to visioning feminist futures that eschew inevitable
dystopia, catalyze feminist research agendas, and strengthen social justice
approaches.



Co-editors

Rajani Bhatia, Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender &
Sexuality Studies, SUNY at Albany

(Albany, NY, U.S.)



Ellen E. Foley, Professor, International Development and Social Change,
Clark University

(Worcester, MA, U.S.)



Anne Hendrixson (ahendrixson at hampshire.edu), Director, Population &
Development Program,

Hampshire College (Amherst, MA, U.S.)



Sarojini Nadimpally, Executive Director, Sama: Resource Group on Women and
Health, (New Delhi, India)



Diana Ojeda, Associate Professor of Instituto Pensar, Pontificia
Universidad Javeriana, (Bogotá, Colombia)



Jade S. Sasser, Associate Professor, Department of Gender & Sexuality
Studies, University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA, U.S.)



“Confronting Populationism” articles include:



Daniel Bendix, Ellen E. Foley, Anne Hendrixson & Susanne Schultz (2019):
Targets and technologies: Sayana Press and Jadelle in contemporary
population policies, Gender, Place & Culture,
DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2018.1555145
<https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1555145>



Rajani Bhatia, Jade S. Sasser, Diana Ojeda, Anne Hendrixson, Sarojini
Nadimpally & Ellen E. Foley (2019): A feminist exploration of
‘populationism’: Engaging contemporary forms of population control, Gender,
Place & Culture, DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2018.1553859
<https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1553859>



Geoffrey Alan Boyce, Sarah Launius, Jill M. Williams, & Todd Miller (2019):
Alter-Geopolitics and the feminist challenge to the securitization of
climate policy, Gender, Place & Culture, DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2019.1620698
<https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1620698?af=R&journalCode=cgpc20>



Anne Hendrixson, Diana Ojeda, Jade S. Sasser, Sarojini Nadimpally, Ellen E.
Foley & Rajani Bhatia (2019): Confronting Populationism: Feminist
challenges to population control in an era of climate change, Gender, Place
& Culture.  DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2019.1639634
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1639634>



Diana Ojeda, Jade S. Sasser & Elizabeth Lunstrum (2019): Malthus’s specter
and the Anthropocene, Gender, Place & Culture, DOI:
10.1080/0966369X.2018.1553858
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1555518?af=R&journalCode=cgpc20>



Claudia Rivera-Amarillo & Alejandro Camargo (2019): Zika assemblages:
women, populationism, and the geographies of epidemiological surveillance,
Gender, Place & Culture, DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2018.1555518
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1555518?af=R&journalCode=cgpc20>


Amanda Shaw & Kalpana Wilson (2019): The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
and the necro-populationism of ‘climate-smart’ agriculture, Gender, Place &
Culture. DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2019.1609426
<https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1609426?af=R&journalCode=cgpc20>


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