From "Tough Love" to "Street Fight

Garret Hardin and Cordelia S. May's Battle for Population Control and Eugenics at the Turn of the Millennium

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5145758
AutoresMiroslava Chávez-García (0009-0008-5245-2726, University of California, USA), Miroslava Chávez‐garcía (University of California, Santa Barbara, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen43
Número94
Páginas175-198
Fecha de publicación2023-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRevista Brasileira de História (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0102-0188 • E-ISSN: 1806-9347
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1806-93472023v43n94-10
OpenAlexW4389894636
SCIELO_PIDS0102-01882023000300175
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas18

This essay draws on epistolary documentation, conference proceedings, and U.S. government reports to analyze the correspondence of right-wing "conservative" activists Garrett Hardin and Cordelia S. May, focusing on their obsession with population control and eugenic principles as solutions to the growing ecological disasters of the 1960s through the early 2000s. These individuals engaged in negotiations and made decisions that helped shape public support for draconian population control policies and practices based on eugenics. These sources provide new insights into how a group of influential intellectuals, financiers, and self-proclaimed environmentalists worked to build a white, elite, heteronormative, and empowered smart society for the future, despite their inability to keep population control on the national agenda

Battle · Biopower · Criminology · Elite · Environmental ethics · Eugenics · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Politics · Population · Population control · Sociology · Vagrancy · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medical History and Research · Public Administration · Race, Genetics, and Society