Gender Studies MA

Michelle Murphy, 'Against Population, Towards Alterlife' in Making Kin not Population  by Donna Haraway 2018 "In the first half of the 20th century, the problem of population was politicised in nations around the world as the eugenic project of racial futures, how to prevent the breeding of some for the sake of the evolutionary future of the whole." p.103 "From Malthus to American foreign policy, the problem of population has been framed as a way to avert crises, as necessitating unsavoury acts in order to thwart a potential apocalypse of starvation, resource depletion, and war." p.104 "Population, as worked through the now globalised practices of population control since the 1960's, has rested on calculations of surplus life and white supremacy, of foreign life to be kept outside of borders, of lives not worth saving, of killable brown and black others and, of elite lives to be protected." p.105 Population as a way of deflecting from t...