Article ID: CBB560855337

“Counting One's Allies”: The Mobilization of Demography, Population, and Family Planning in East Asia, Late 1920s–Present (2016)

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DiMoia, John P. (Author)


East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 10
Issue: 4
Pages: 355-376


Publication Date: 2016
Edition Details: Special Issue of the journal on Population Control in Cold War Asia
Language: English

This article interrogates the category “Cold War family planning” for the East Asian context (1945–1991), arguing that the category remains highly relevant while also reflecting a much longer regional history of demography and population studies. In this sense, the category is both useful and insufficient, especially if we fail to examine a revised periodization and a constructed nature for the category. If the category as constructed has its origins in a highly charged, ideological binary following the close of World War II and the fracture of colonialism, this reduced version of the narrative prioritizes the role of external partners, funding and grant agencies, and the attempt by powerful nations to reconstitute their relations with postcolonial nations through developmental aid. In turn, the longer version of the story emphasizes actors on the ground, the role of registration and demographic practice, and parties who strategically used the arrival of external actors to mobilize their own agendas. Cold War family planning thus represents a dynamic, interactive story, one in which multiple sets of partners with distinct agendas were able to work together. Building from this more complicated version, the final section of the article turns to the role of postwar Japan and Asian developmentalism, noting that family planning activities became a core part of the aid offered by emerging donor nations by the 1970s. Many Southeast Asian nations today encounter not just colonial history but also the reconfigured version of an earlier paternalism made available through their Asian partners.

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Article Homei, Aya; Huang, Yu-Ling (December 2016) Population Control in Cold War Asia: An Introduction. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 343-353). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lin, Yi-Tang
Seungmann Park
Kuźma-Markowska, Sylwia
Erin Heidt-Forsythe
Woyke, Meik
Valles, Sean A.
Concepts
Family planning
Birth control; contraception; sterilization
Demography; population research
Public health
Family
Social sciences
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Germany
France
Korea
Bangladesh
Scotland
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