Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin
with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of
World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching
ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences.
The world population problem concerned the fertility of soil as
much as the fertility of women, always involving both "earth" and
"life."
"Global Population" traces the idea of a world population
problem as it evolved from the 1920s through the 1960s. The growth
and distribution of the human population over the planet's surface
came deeply to shape the characterization of "civilizations" with
different standards of living. It forged the very ideas of
development, demographically defined three worlds, and, for some,
an aspirational "one world."
Drawing on international conference transcripts and personal and
organizational archives, this book reconstructs the
twentieth-century population problem in terms of migration,
colonial expansion, globalization, and world food plans. Population
was a problem in which international relations and intimate
relations were one. Global Population ultimately shows how a
geopolitical problem about sovereignty over land morphed into a
biopolitical solution, entailing sovereignty over one's person.
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