{"product_id":"global-population-9780231147675","title":"Global Population","description":"\u003cp\u003eConcern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the \"population bomb\" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. The world population problem concerned the fertility of soil as much as the fertility of women, always involving both \"earth\" and \"life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobal Population\u003c\/i\u003e traces the idea of a world population problem as it evolved from the 1920s through the 1960s. The growth and distribution of the human population over the planet's surface came deeply to shape the characterization of \"civilizations\" with different standards of living. It forged the very ideas of development, demographically defined three worlds, and, for some, an aspirational \"one world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on international conference transcripts and personal and organizational archives, this book reconstructs the twentieth-century population problem in terms of migration, colonial expansion, globalization, and world food plans. Population was a problem in which international relations and intimate relations were one. \u003ci\u003eGlobal Population\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately shows how a geopolitical problem about sovereignty over land morphed into a biopolitical solution, entailing sovereignty over one's person.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alison Bashford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42980261265526,"sku":"9780231147675","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_e44e4b21-cf92-4a7d-b615-6191a66b2d65.jpg?v=1768546758","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/global-population-9780231147675","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}