Constructing the sterile city
Pronatalism and social sciences in interwar Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2466473 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David G Horn (The Ohio State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 581-601 |
| Publication date | 1991-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1991.18.3.02a00090 |
| OpenAlex | W2150849541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article explores the construction of the Italian city and the urban population as objects of social scientific knowledge and technical intervention. In the context of a pronatalist campaign launched by the fascist regime in the 1920s and 1930s, the city was identified as a locus of sterility, and urban populations were made the targets of new forms of government aimed at transforming reproductive practices. The links between knowledge and power revealed by this "problematization" of the city are, I suggest, of some importance for genealogies of the social sciences, including urban anthropology. [cities, urbanism, social science, reproduction, Italy, fascism
Archaeology · Art · Biology · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Geography · Government (linguistics · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Population · Problematization · Social science · Sociology · Urban anthropology · Urban density · Urban planning · Urbanism · Anthropology · Architecture · Demography · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2021 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |