Wie die Sorge vor zu vielen Menschen Politik beeinflusst

In the organizer's words:

Dana Schmalz: The population argument: How concerns about too many people influence politics.

Reading and discussion
Around the year 1800, there were about one billion people living on earth. Today there are more than eight billion. This growth has always been accompanied by warnings that ultimately go back to the economist Thomas Malthus: Too many people mean hunger, ecological and social crises.
Dana Schmalz shows how politics is made with the "population argument": There is only ever too much growth elsewhere, in the global South or in marginalized milieus. Governments use the argument to restrict reproductive rights; racist ideas continue to guide development policy. And recently, anti-feminist groups have been pointing to birth rates in order to make their conspiracy ideologies discursive.

7 p.m., Room OG in Bellevue di Monaco