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Politics of Eugenics - Productionism, Population, and National Welfare (Hardcover, New)
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Politics of Eugenics - Productionism, Population, and National Welfare (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
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This book analyzes whether the "new debate on genetics" owes a debt
to eugenic practices by welfare democracies of 1930s and 1940s.
More specifically, the question is whether precisely the same
"eugenic rationale" used in the 1930s is philosophical akin to a
new rationality unfolding in some Western European welfare
societies that find themselves trapped in the modern dilemma of
choosing between increasing immigration and population growth that
leads to economic prosperity on the one hand, or halting
immigration, protecting national identity, and suffering economic
stagnation on the other. By analyzing, policies of integration and
assisted reproduction technology (ART) in Northern European nation
states such as Sweden, Finland, Denmark as well as in Israel, we
find a historical continuity between "old eugenics" and current
reproductive and family planning subsides and integration policies.
By focusing on the concept of welfare productionism, we trace a
continuing rationale between the eugenic policies of the past and
current investments of ART. These programs, are rationalized as
universal programs for the whole of the population. However, in
this book the authors suggest that they served the goal of
reproducing a productivist, national middle class which are enticed
to reproduce. This work will be of great interest to students and
scholars of racism, extremism, European politics, population
politics, and the social impact of science and technology.
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