| Description |
326 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Human rights, human populations, and the controversies of natality / Sabine Berking and Magdalena Zolkos -- Malthus versus Condorcet : population policy, gender and culture from an ethnological perspective / Shalini Randeria -- Reproductive rights : the challenge of reconciling ethics and law / Maja Kirilova Eriksson -- Governing China's population : the state planning of unplanned persons / Susan Greenhalgh -- Reproduction at the margins : reproduction, migration and legitimacy in the new Europe / Caroline H. Bledsoe -- Population policy transition : human rights and population politics in India during the 1975-1977 Emergency and today / Khadija R. Turay -- HIV/AIDS prevention and population politics in Africa / Lisa Ann Richey -- Positive impact of population policy on human rights in Sub-Saharan Africa / Rachel Sullivan Robinson -- Emancipation or child benefits? New family policies in Germany and Europe / Steffen Kröhneri and Reiner Klingholz -- Departing China : identification papers and the pursuit of burial rights in Fuzhou / Julie Y. Chu -- Population policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Homa Hoodfar -- Bearing children, bearing the revolution : fertility, culture, and economy in Cuba / Elise Andaya -- Mapping human rights in the Polish abortion debates : reflections on the subversion of the democratic polity / Magdalena Zolkos -- Available motherhood : legal technologies, 'state of exception' and the dekinning of 'war babies' in Bangladesh / Nayanika Mookherjee -- Discourses of modernization and child allowances : Israeli population politics and their impact on Palestinian citizens of Israel / Steven Rousso-Schindler -- Right to reproductive self-determination of indigenous peoples under human rights law / Ricardo M. Pereira |
| Summary |
"How does the focus on human rights change the study of population governance? What, if any, new insights, perspectives and challenges do human rights bring to population policies? How, if at all, can protection and respect for human rights be integrated with national and global problems of population management? These questions are looming in light of contemporary recognition that dealing with the world's population is an increasingly urgent, challenging and complex issue of global governance. Cutting across standard academic disciplines and often challenging the divide between social theory and practice, this collection brings together contributions from experts in the area of population studies and human rights. Drawing upon cases from different parts of the world (China, India, Tanzania, Nigeria, Germany, Iran, Cuba, Poland, Israel, Peru and Australia) the contributors address questions of the often strained relationship between national population governance and global human rights discourses within four mutually connected thematic clusters: global developments, paradoxes of social engineering, religious and nationalist influences on reproduction, and minority politics"--Cover |
| Notes |
"This collection originated in the Sixth Berlin Roundtable on Transnationality titled 'Population Politics and Human Rights', which took place from 14-20 February 2007 in Berlin"--Acknowledgments |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Human rights.
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Population policy.
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Population -- Social aspects
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| Author |
Berking, Sabine.
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Żółkoś, Magdalena.
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| ISBN |
9783631578339 |
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