A01=Saul Halfon
Author_Saul Halfon
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Product details
- ISBN 9780739111765
- Weight: 610g
- Dimensions: 162 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2006
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the early 1990s international population policy faced a crisis—it was being attacked from the left and the right, from inside and outside, for a range of failings—of ethics, fact, method, and vision. The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo, provided a new policy consensus that helped to overcome this crisis. Starting from the question of how the transition from "population control" to "women's empowerment" was formulated as an international consensus, The Cairo Consensus maps the discourses, technical practices, and institutional practices that made this transition possible and stable. Demographic surveys in particular emerge as a crucial, though often overlooked, mechanism for policy production and stability. Using detailed empirical material, including over 30 interviews, combined with cutting edge social and political theory, Saul Halfon offers a new look at population policy that will interest scholars of science and technology, international studies, women's studies, development studies, and post-colonial theory.
Saul Halfon is assistant professor of science & technology in society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
