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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5145758
AutoresMiroslava Chávez-García (0009-0008-5245-2726, University of California, USA), Miroslava Chávez‐garcía (University of California, Santa Barbara, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume43
Fascículo94
Páginas175-198
Data de publicação2023-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRevista Brasileira de História (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0102-0188 • E-ISSN: 1806-9347
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1806-93472023v43n94-10
OpenAlexW4389894636
SCIELO_PIDS0102-01882023000300175
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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