Publication: El Efecto Malthus: población y gobierno liberal de la vida1
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Dean, Mitchell
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Murcia: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia
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Este trabajo identifica e investiga lo que se llama el Efecto Malthus desde dos
perspectivas: una teórico-genealógica y la otra empírico-diagnóstica. La primera
se relaciona con las implicaciones de la genealogía de M. Foucault y su idea del
gobierno moderno. La segunda, sugiere que las preocupaciones de Malthus tienen
una influencia que está presente en la política reciente y contemporánea. En ellas
encontraremos un gobierno de la vida que asocia la cuestión de la pobreza con la
población, como un problema tanto nacional como internacional, y relaciona la
biopolítica con asuntos de seguridad nacional siendo a la vez una fuente clave en
el moderno movimiento ambientalista; el cual permanece presente en áreas como
reformas en prestaciones sociales y política de inmigración así como en
cuestiones de sostenibilidad y el sistema social de salud. En este caso, toma la
forma de genopolítica, una política de la capacidad reproductora de las
poblaciones humanas y de la especie humana.
ABSTRACT: This paper identifies and elucidates what it calls the Malthus Effect from two perspectives: a genealogical-theoretical one and an empirical-diagnostic one. The first concerns its implications for Michel Foucault’s genealogy and conceptions of modern governmentality. The second suggests that Malthusian concerns have an enduring presence in recent and contemporary politics. In them we find a government of life that tethers the question of poverty to that of population, as both a national and international concern, links biopolitics to questions of national security and is a key source of the modern environmental movement. It remains present in areas such as welfare reform and immigration policy, notions of sustainability and in the global public health and environmental movements. It takes the form of a genopolitics, a politics of the reproductive capacity of human populations and the human species.
ABSTRACT: This paper identifies and elucidates what it calls the Malthus Effect from two perspectives: a genealogical-theoretical one and an empirical-diagnostic one. The first concerns its implications for Michel Foucault’s genealogy and conceptions of modern governmentality. The second suggests that Malthusian concerns have an enduring presence in recent and contemporary politics. In them we find a government of life that tethers the question of poverty to that of population, as both a national and international concern, links biopolitics to questions of national security and is a key source of the modern environmental movement. It remains present in areas such as welfare reform and immigration policy, notions of sustainability and in the global public health and environmental movements. It takes the form of a genopolitics, a politics of the reproductive capacity of human populations and the human species.
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