Population Control is History: New Perspectives on the International Campaign to Limit Population Growth
Population Control is History: New Perspectives on the International Campaign to Limit Population Growth
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人口控制已成历史：国际限制人口增长运动的新视角
DOI：
10.1017/s0010417503000069
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发表时间：
2003
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0.7
通讯作者：
M. Connelly
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作者：
M. Connelly
控制人类生育的国际运动激发了大量跨学科文献，但只是在最近几年才成为历史研究和辩论的主题。新的档案已经开放，特别是在其早期的英雄阶段，最大的捐助者。科学家和活动家越来越愿意反思他们一生的工作。最重要的是，随着世界每个区域的生育率下降，现在有可能开始看到故事的结局。随着世界人口空前增长时期的结束，旨在限制人口增长而不是保护生殖权利和健康的国际努力将不可避免地从政策领域走向历史，这一区别表明了“人口控制”一词的性质和局限性，而“人口控制”本身也很快成为历史产物。正如稍后将讨论的那样，虽然它现在表示“计划生育”议程的一个缩小的子集，但人口控制可以被视为包括曾经广泛的塑造人口质量和数量的努力。关于这一点，也可参见Dennis Hodgson and Susan Cotts Watkins，“Feminists and Neo-Malthusians：Past and Present Alliances，”Population and Development Review 23（1997）：471。联合国的最新预测发表在《世界人口前景：2000年订正本》中。http://www.un.org/esa/population/wpp2000.html
The international campaign to control human fertility has inspired a vast inter-disciplinary literature, but only in recent years has it become a subject for historical study and debate. New archives have opened, especially among the largest donors during its early, heroic phase. And scientists and activists are increasingly willing to be reflexive about their lives' work. Most importantly, with rates of fertility declining in every region of the world, it is now possible to begin to see the end of the story. As the period of unprecedented growth in world population draws to a close, international efforts directed at limiting that growth—as opposed to safeguarding reproductive rights and health—will inexorably pass from the domain of policy to history.This distinction suggests the nature and limits of the term “population control,” which is itself fast becoming a historical artifact. As will be discussed anon, while it now denotes a shrinking subset of the “family planning” agenda, population control can be seen as encompassing the once wide-ranging efforts to shape the quality as well as the quantity of population. On this point see also Dennis Hodgson and Susan Cotts Watkins, “Feminists and Neo-Malthusians: Past and Present Alliances,” Population and Development Review 23 (1997):471. The latest U.N. projections are presented in “World Population Prospects: The 2000 Revision,” http://www.un.org/esa/population/wpp2000.html.