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Categories and Contexts
Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography
Edited by Simon Szreter, Hania Sholkamy, and A. Dharmalingam
424 pages
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numerous tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-927057-6
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Hardback
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18 March 2004
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- Expounds and exemplifies a new approach, that of critical reflexive demography, to studies of population processes.
- Focused interdisciplinarity uses the combined insights of a variety of humanities disciplines to ineterrogate a common preoccupation in population studies.
- Each chapter provides an accessible and self-contained study, re-evaluating taken-for-granted categories in demography by insisting on the relevance and importance of context.
- Easy-to-read chapters are particularly useful for teaching, even in introductory courses in demography for non-specialist students.
Throughout its history as a social science, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying social problems. As a result, demographers tend to analyse population issues scientifically through sets of fixed social categories that are divorced from dynamic relationships and local contexts and processes. This volume questions these fixed categories in two ways. First, it examines the historical and political circumstances in which such categories had their provenance, and, second, it reassesses their uncritical applications over space and time in a
diverse range of empirical case studies, encouraging throughout a constructive interdisciplinary dialogue involving anthropologists, demographers, historians, and sociologists.
This volume seeks to examine the political complexities that lie at the heart of population studies by focusing on category formation, category use, and category critique. It shows that this takes the form of a dialectic between the needs for clarity of scientific and administrative analysis and the recalcitrant diversity of the social contexts and human processes that generate population change. The critical reflections of each chapter are enriched by meticulous ethnographic fieldwork and historical research drawn from every continent. This volume, therefore, exemplifies a new methodology for
research in population studies, one that does not simply accept and re-use the established categories of population science but seeks critically and reflexively to explore, test, and re-evaluate their meanings in diverse contexts. It shows that for demography to realise its full potential it must urgently re-examine and contextualize the social categories used today in population research.
Readership: Researchers in population, public health, and development studies, students of history, anthropology, sociology, politics, development studies, and demography, and professionals working with population and developmental issues in governmental and non-governmental organizations.
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Edited by Simon Szreter, Reader in History and Public Policy, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, Hania Sholkamy, Visiting Scholar, Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, The American University in Cairo, and A. Dharmalingam, Senior Lecturer in Demography, Sociology and Social Policy, University of Waikato, Hamilton Contributors:
John W. Adams is Professor of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.
Nabesh Bohidar is Researcher with AIMS Research - Bhubaneswar, Orissa
Charles L. Briggs is Professor and Director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at the
University of California, San Diego
John Bryant is an analyst in the Policy Coordination and Development
Section of the New Zealand Treasury, Wellington
Martine Collumbien, formerly at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is a Consultant in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research, 133 Grosvenor Ave., London N5 2NH
Braj Das is Researcher with AIMS Research - Bhubaneswar, Orissa
Ram Das is Researcher with AIMS Research - Bhubaneswar, Orissa
Paula Jean Davis is Assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
A. Dharmalingam is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Brian Greenberg is
the Director of Environmental Social Science at Innovative Resources Management, Washington, DC.
Margaret Greene is Research Associate at George Washington University's Center for Global Health, Washington, DC.
Susan Greenhalgh is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California at Irvine.
Edward Higgs is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Essex
Francine Hirsch is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jennifer S. Hirsch is Assistant Professor, jointly appointed in the Departments of International Health and Anthropology, Emory University.
Alice Bee Kasakoff is Professor of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.
Philip Kreager is Lecturer in Human Sciences (Demography), Somerville College, Oxford and Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford University
Stephen C. Lubkemann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Research at the Watson Institute for International Studies and in the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Department at Brown University.
Melissa Nobles is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Population at Harvard University and Scientist, World Health Organization
Pertti Pelto is Consultant to John Hopkins and Ford Foundation,
Maharashtra, India
Aree Prohmmo is a Population and Health Consultant, Wellington, New Zealand
Elisha P. Renne is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan.
Hania Sholkamy is Visiting Scholar in The Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, The American University in Cairo
Simon Szreter is Reader in History and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo is Advisor to the Law Reform and Conflict Programs at The Asia Foundation, Indonesia
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"All of these chapters...can be read with interest by demographers; some of them offer striking insights." - Adrian C. Hayes, Population and Development Review, Vol. 32, No. 3
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David Kertzer: Foreword
List of Contributors
Section 1 The historical anthropology of demography and its categories
1: S.Szreter with H.Sholkamy and A.Dharmalingam: Contextualising categories: towards a critical reflexive demography
2: P.Kreager: Objectifying demographic identities
3: 3. C.Briggs: Malthus' Anti-Rhetorical Rhetoric, or, on the Magical Conversion of the Imaginary into the Real
Section 2 Categories as political interventions
4: S.Szreter with H.Sholkamy and A.Dharmalingam: Editors' Introduction
5: E.Higgs: The linguistic construction of social and medical categories in the work of the English General Register Office, 1837-1950
6: M.Nobles: Racial / Color Categorization in US and Brazilian Censuses
7: F.Hirsch: Toward a Soviet Order of Things:The 1926 Census and the Making of the Soviet Union
8: S.Greenhalgh: Making up China's "Black population"
9: S.Villaveces- Izquierdo: Internal diaspora and State imagination: Colombia's failure to envision a nation
10: C.Makhlouf-Obermeyer: Users, non-users, clients, and help-seekers: the use of categories in research on health behaviour
11: M.Collumbien et al: Etic and emic categories in male sexual health: a case study from Orissa
Section 3 Contexts as critiques of categories
12: S.Szreter with H.Sholkamy and A.Dharmalingam: Editors' Introduction
13: A.Prohmmo and J.Bryant: Measuring the population of a northeast Thai village
14: J.Hirsch: 'Un noviazgo después de ser casados': Companionate marriage, sexual intimacy, and the modern Mexican family
15: E.Renne: Gender Roles and Women's Status: What They Mean to Hausa Muslim Women in Northern Nigeria
16: P.Davis: Re-contextualizing the Female-Headed Household: Culture and Agency in Uganda
17: M.Greene and B.Greenberg: Demography's Ecological Frontier: Rethinking the 'Nature' of the Household and Community
18: J.Adams and B.Kassakoff: Spillovers, subdivisions and flows: questioning the usefulness of 'bounded container' as the dominant metaphor in demography
19: S.Lubkemann: Situating migration in wartime and post-war Mozambique: a critique of "forced migration" research
Index
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