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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... technical consensus , when it is reached , as a pre- political , technical accomplishment . Schwarz and Thompson suggest that claims of " uncertainty " frequently designate , not a lack of knowledge , but rather com- peting certainties ...
... technical consensus , when it is reached , as a pre- political , technical accomplishment . Schwarz and Thompson suggest that claims of " uncertainty " frequently designate , not a lack of knowledge , but rather com- peting certainties ...
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... technical character of technological innovations . It is a metaphor for the interconnected heterogeneity that underlies socio - technical engineering . These authors are writing against the notion that the technical and the social ...
... technical character of technological innovations . It is a metaphor for the interconnected heterogeneity that underlies socio - technical engineering . These authors are writing against the notion that the technical and the social ...
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... technical standards , and detailed scientific information for most international negotiation . Science and technology often produce and stabi- lize the causal narratives and other forms of knowledge that make up a dis- course ...
... technical standards , and detailed scientific information for most international negotiation . Science and technology often produce and stabi- lize the causal narratives and other forms of knowledge that make up a dis- course ...
Contents
Introduction | 13 |
1 Competing Conceptions of Consensus | 16 |
Discourses on The | 31 |
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abortion action actors agenda articulated birth Bongaarts broader Bruce Cairo Conference Cairo consensus Cairo POA central challenged chapter choice concept concerns context contraceptive delivery contraceptive development contraceptive revolution countries critiques crucial cultural definitions demographic surveys discourse discussion economic effects emphasizes empower environmental epistemic communities explore family planning family planning programs feminist Fertility Survey focus focused framing funding gender global goals implementation important individual institutions intervention Interview issues IWHC knowledge language measure ment neo-Malthusian notion particular policy-makers political population control Population Council population growth population network population policy post-Cairo pregnancy produced questionnaire questions rational regime representations reproductive health reproductive rights rhetoric risks Rockefeller Rockefeller Foundation role scientific shift Sierra Club social specific stability suggests sustainable development technical practices technologies theory Third World tion tive traceptive UNFPA unmet need USAID various Westoff women's empowerment framework women's health