TY - JOUR
AU1 - Shimpach, Shawn
AB - Shimpach / Review: Malthusian Worlds Television & New Media / November 2002 A Review of Ronald Walter Greene, Malthusian Worlds: U.S. Leadership and the Governing of the Population Crisis Shawn Shimpach Tisch School of the Arts Malthusian Worlds: U.S. Leadership and the Governing of the Population Crisis, by Ronald Walter Greene. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 1999. $95.00 USD. Malthus continues to haunt our future as the principle of population contin- ues to define who we are in the present. The governing of procreation through the building of the population apparatus functions as an “othering machine” that differentiates each one of us around the norms and social categories of modern, healthy, and white. Although contributing to the differentiation of populations by allowing the act of reproduction to function as a form of cul- tural distinction, the population apparatus also territorializes us into a geog- raphy of scarcity. To generate forms of mobility that promise an escape from this geography of scarcity, the population apparatus offers the government of our reproductive behaviors. The danger made possible by the population ap- paratus is that this very promise of mobility works to reproduce the so-called satanic geography of a Malthusian world by coding 
TI - A Review of Ronald Walter Greene, Malthusian Worlds: U.S. Leadership and the Governing of the Population Crisis
JF - Television & New Media
DO - 10.1177/152747602237282
DA - 2002-11-01
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SP - 397
EP - 403
VL - 3
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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