The National Gain is Nil”
Talking About Infant Mortality in Interwar Alberta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11970435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Kaler (0000-0003-2681-3483, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 309-332 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Canadian Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0318-6431 • E-ISSN: 1710-1123 |
| Publisher | University of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.29173/cjs10287 |
| OpenAlex | W1507434262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper uses the concept of biopolitics to analyze the ways in which infant mortality was talked about in Alberta between the beginning of the first world war and the beginning of the second. Material is drawn primarily from small-town newspapers. Infant mortality is understood as a form of perverse reproduction, in which life and death are unnaturally juxtaposed, threatening the integrity of the emergent polity of Alberta. The two main tropes in talking about infant mortality are military and economic, contingently linked to Alberta's experience of the first world war and of economic stress in the postwar years
Ancient history · Biopower · Economic history · First world war · Infant mortality · Media studies · Militarization · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Polity · Population · Reproduction · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Canadian Identity and History · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |