... distributed reproduction against population refusal climate change ...

... The concluding coda takes a stance against population as a useful concept. Climate change has recharged the concept of population within policy and politics. In contrast, the coda argues that population, as a concept for governing human fertility, is infused with racisms and dangerous...

... these practices and advocated that anthropologists should cease publishing their work because they could not assure others would not use it against studied populations. Gerald Hickey Delmos Jones Vietnam War research ethics ...

.... population. In health planning scenarios, journalism, and fiction depicting such use of smallpox as a bioweapon, visions of American Indian viral susceptibility and Islamic terrorism buttressed a militarized logic of preemptive intervention against disease, which was spectacularly performed through the U.S...

... how this political concept was exported and translated to the Iberian American colonies, where it became a technology for organizing and securing colonial populations against probable threats to colonial power ensouled within communities or individuals defined by African or Indigenous ancestry. Color...

... This chapter discusses how Asian scientists interpret population genetic data to tell a story about the conceptual unity of diverse peoples on the continent. Against the backdrop of historical and continuing political tensions, scientists at Biopolis have led the effort to form a first-ever...

... Spaniards and white Cubans) would be the occasion for blacks to rise up against the white population—the long shadow of the Haitian revolution. The war revealed the capacities of white and black Cubans to join together against Spanish colonial rule in pursuit of a new nation. The same war, however, served...

... and conduct commerce on the island. There was also a number of so-called unattached residents. After the prohibition against women was relaxed, members of all these social categories brought their families and dependents with them, and there was no small number of children in the population. identity...

... in the Federalist Papers , that attacked democratic critics of the constitution by pitting political realism and maturity against the irrational exuberance of populism. The chapter shows that this genre of criticism, invoked now to defend a civic nationalism in crisis, cannot offer a compelling counterfiction...

... Christianity on the European continent. In the process, reason of state turned the problem of religious threat to government into a form of racial security. Using the case of Elizabethan and Jacobean English statecraft, and its war against sedition, the chapter shows how the birth of the racial security state...

...Known Unknowns This chapter discusses how Asian scientists interpret population genetic data to tell a story about the conceptual unity of diverse peoples on the continent. Against the backdrop of historical and continuing political tensions, scientists at Biopolis have led the effort to form...

... adaptation to living in oxygen-thin highlands. This preemptive focus on the biological capacitation of populations suggests that China’s scheme of official ethnicities is conceptualized as a diversified pool of genetic resources for the fortification of China’s genomes against the pressures of an environment...

... This chapter uses archival documents as well as personal interviews to examine spirit-induced trembling (zakama) in the context of prophetic movements (kingunza) as a site of political contestation between the church, the colonial state, and the indigenous population in the Lower Congo...

... This chapter reflects on diversity work as the effort to transform institutions by opening them up to populations that have historically been excluded from them. Drawing on interviews with diversity practitioners, it considers how practitioners keep coming up against brick walls even after...

... This chapter examines how the Blue Shirts and CC Clique worked to create nationalist literature and arts ( minzu wenyi ) and how they understood literature and the arts as key vehicles for the consolidation of new social meanings. It further examines how the terror that they waged against left...

... or economic and technological progress, but instead was associated with the racial, ethnic, and cultural composition of the nation. By the mid-1950s, however, the topic of morality took another turn when Cuba’s Ministry of Communication joined the battle against “immorality” on television. Debates about...

... of gender violence by showing the utility of the concept of “state crime” that legal theorists and criminologists have recently developed to analyze states' use of violence to control, discriminate against, and govern subjugated populations. Based on the girls' descriptions of what they experience...

... questions that acquired particular salience for Native peoples, including land, ecology, and treaty rights, as well as those elements, like cultural revitalization, police violence, state repression, and the struggle against patriarchy, that were common to all racialized populations inside the United States...

... In the context of population aging, anxieties about old age are underpinned by contested moral ideologies about claiming and enacting responsibility for the oldest generations. In Poland, such contestations involve complex historical reckonings in which the socialist past’s legacy looms large...

... framed their work in Cameroon as a global biosecurity issue, based on the idea that new, unknown viruses circulating among local apes and monkeys could pass to humans through the hunting and eating of “bushmeat” by Cameroonian populations. The chapter analyses how local artists and citizens criticized...