Public harassement of Science? and Environmental

I came across this paper refering to post WWII relationships between Government and Science and thougth I would give it a mention, a recommendation, if such is required.

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Malthus at mid-century: neo-Malthusianism as bio-political governance in the post-WWII
United States

Abstract:
"The paper provides a discursive history of neo-Malthusianism in the United States, focusing primarily on the mid-20th century. In the process, the author, K. Schlosser of the Dept of Geography and Geology West Kentucky Univ. critically examine texts invoking Malthusian arguments in relation to the politics of
sex and birth control, class and eugenics, and race and geopolitics, focusing on how they rendered human population growth intelligible in particularly reductive and naturalistic ways. The purpose is to show how this history impinges upon the construction of population-resource theory after WWII, focusing specifically on William Vogt’s book, "Road to survival" and Fairfield Osborn’s book, "Our plundered planet." K. Schlosser argues that the production and circulation of generalized
models of population-induced conflict in the post-war United States was an important part of the nationalization and government harnessing of science in the name of national security, and relevant to post-war developmentalism and early Cold War containment doctrine. This helps us understand how neo-Malthusian discourse has been deployed as a form of bio-political governance.

en référence à : Malthus at mid-century: neo-Malthusianism as bio-political governance in the post-WWII United States -- Schlosser 16 (4): 465 -- Cultural Geographies (afficher sur Google Sidewiki)