Populationism

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Thomas Robert Malthus ( 13 February 1766- 23 December 1834)

was an English economist, cleric and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography. We will learn more about him as he contributed to populationism. His contributions were mostly on demopopulationism.











In the past, population control has been used as a key measure needed to end Third World poverty, overcome starvation and stop environmental decay (Butler, 2010).  It has been contented that, women need to control their fertility through the use of contraceptives to manage large population growth.





while controlling the rate in which women give birth through contraceptive. Contraceptives are not good for women as they have side effects. to mention a few disadvantages: mood swings, weight gain, headaches and migraine etc. be that as it may some women are empowered by using birth control. This gave women highly effective control over their fertility.






























Biopopulationism is evident in the Virginia Center For Reproductive Medicine. Parents are able to choose gender selection foe family balancing or birthing quality children. Gender selection combines two state-of-the-art technologies PGS and IVF. PGS is the selection of embryos of the desired sex that are genetically healthy. Medical gender selection can help prevent sex-linked genetic disorders this will results in producing quality children through the use of technology.

  Bhatia, R. et al. 2020. A feminist exploration of ‘populationism’: engaging contemporary forms of population control. Gender, place and culture : a journal of feminist geography. [Online] 27 (3), 333–350.

Butler, S. 2010. Populationism: A weapon of Political Conservation. Green Left Weekly. [online]
Hello, hi my name is Lerato Priscilla Sauhatsi. Had done my undergrad at the UP majoring in Psychology and Sociology,I hold a BSoc Science honours degree from UCT. And I am currently doing my masters at Wits.

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