The Cairo Consensus: Demographic Surveys, Women's Empowerment, and Regime Change in Population PolicyLexington Books, 2007 - 261 pages 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. |
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Structured Disunity Rethinking Consensus as a Metaphor for Getting Along | 15 |
Population Discourses | 29 |
OverPopulating the World Discourses on The Population Problem 1945 to the Present | 31 |
Reading Cairo | 63 |
ReConfiguring Womens Empowerment From Politics to Planning | 83 |
Technical Practices in the Population Network | 101 |
Contesting Surveys CoProducing Demography and Population Policy | 103 |
Narrating Unmet Need | 155 |
Instituting the Cairo Regime | 189 |
Translating Unmet Need into Market Demand Contraceptive Development after Cairo | 191 |
Conclusion Projecting Population Policy | 219 |
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About the Author | |
Standardizing Surveys Building Consensus through Technical Practice | 131 |
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