Book Presentation Global Population Politics and Reproductive Lives

Description

Book presentation «The Gospel of Family Planning» and «Reproductive Racism» How have global population policies shaped the lives of marginalized people, and what effects are still felt today? This evening's discussion will focus on the presented books «The Gospel of Family Planning: An Intimate Global History» (Bourbonnais 2025, The University of Chicago Press) and «Reproductive Racism: Migration, Birth Control and the Specter of Population» (Schultz 2023, Anthem Press), as well as the work «From Troubled Pasts to Occluded Futures: A Clinic-Based Ethnography of Female Sterilisation in Northwest India» (Sahay 2026, Graduate Institute Geneva). The discussion will center on groups in the Global South and North, whose reproductive decisions have been influenced by political interventions. A reception will follow. Participants: Nicole Bourbonnais – Historian
Susanne Schultz – Political Sociologist
Arushi Sahay – Anthropologist
Carolin Schurr – Moderation
Maria Moctezuma – Music

Highlights

• Book presentation on global population policies
• Participants: Nicole Bourbonnais, Susanne Schultz, Arushi Sahay
• Followed by a reception

General Information

The event explores how global population policies have influenced the lives of marginalized people. The discussion will include the books «The Gospel of Family Planning» and «Reproductive Racism», as well as an ethnographic study on female sterilization in India.

Location

Kornhausplatz 18, 3011 Bern, Switzerland

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