Domesticating Malayalees: family planning, the nation and home-centered anxieties in mid- 20th century Keralam
Domesticating Malayalees: family planning, the nation and home-centered anxieties in mid- 20th century Keralam
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驯化马来亚人：20世纪中叶喀拉拉邦的计划生育、国家和以家庭为中心的焦虑
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2002
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J. Devika
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本文试图打破20世纪马来西亚社会中现代家庭与小家庭之间在现存文学中常见的自然化联系。相反，它试图追溯自19世纪中叶以来话语中某些生活选项的形成，这些选项将越来越多地调动现代马来西亚人的愿望，并在引导他们走向小家庭规范方面发挥重要作用。在这些过程中和通过这些过程，对父母责任的整个概念进行了至关重要的重新定义；其次，国家干预家庭的能力也得到了加强和合法化。当然，这些是20世纪中叶马来西亚社会愿意接受计划生育方案的核心。同样重要的是，询问这些生活选择开始对这个社会中的不同社会群体来说既合理又可取的具体途径，但由于这指向更深入和持久的研究，本文仅试图开辟一些尝试性的基础。此外，它还考虑了为什么在20世纪50年代达到顶峰的马来亚民族主义情绪实际上批准减少马来西亚人的数量，以及为什么要求主张马来西亚人身份的呼声与绝望地呼吁减少他们的人数完全一致。总而言之，这篇论文提到了所谓的“驯化”过程：通过这个过程，个人的大部分精力、兴趣、欲望等都被引导到他们的家庭中，在这个过程中，计划生育方案被视为一件大事。简要讨论了这一进程的政治影响。
The paper tries to unsettle the naturalized association often assumed in the existent literature between the modern family and the small family in 20 century Malayalee society. Instead, it attempts to trace out the shaping of certain life-options in discourse from the mid19 century onwards that would increasingly mobilize the desire of modern Malayalees and play an important role in directing them towards the small family norm. The entire notion of parental responsibility was redefined in a crucial way in and through these processes; secondly, the ability of the state to intervene in the family was also strengthened and legitimized. These were, of course central to the willing acceptance of the Family Planning Programme in mid-20 century Malayalee society. It is also important to inquire about the specific paths through which these life-options began to appear both reasonable and desirable to different social groups in this society, but since this points at far more intensive and prolonged research, the paper attempts only to open up some ground tentatively. Further, it considers the question why Malayalee sub-nationalist sentiment, which peaked in the 1950s, actually sanctioned a reduction in the numbers of Malayalees, and why calls for assertion of the Malayalee identity were fully compatible with the desperate call to reduce their numbers. In conclusion, the paper gestures at what is called the process of ‘Domestication’: a process by which the major share of the energies, interests, desires etc. of individuals have been directed into their families, in which the Family Planning Programme is taken to be a major event. The political implications of this process are briefly discussed.