Toward a Political Economy of Fertility
Anthropological Contributions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4121072 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Greenhalgh (0000-0002-2259-0123, corresponding author), Susan Greenhalgh (0000-0002-8812-2314) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85 |
| Publication date | 1990-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1972530 |
| OpenAlex | W2312978898 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 79 |
THREE DECADES AGO, THERE WAS WIDE CONSENSUS on why fertility falls. Now, however, it seems that the closer we get to understanding specific fertility declines, the further we move from a general theory of fertility transition. In the late 1960s the European Fertility Project began to chip away at the foundations of classical transition theory-that part-theory, part-explanation which embodied the collective wisdom of the 1950s and 1960s (Notestein, 1953; Davis, 1963; for the critique, see Coale, 1969, 1973). Using aggregate-level historical data from over 700 European districts, demographers collaborating on the Princeton-based project found that in many parts of the continent the pattern of demographic change failed to follow the threestage path enshrined in demographic transition theory. In the critical transitional stage, fertility decline actually preceded mortality decline in some localities. The project also established that fertility decline occurred at varying levels of socioeconomic and demographic development, undercutting the central tenet of transition theory (Knodel and van de Walle, 1979; Watkins, 1986). The most recent blow to received wisdom comes in a new study of fertility decline in northern Italy (Kertzer and Hogan, 1989). Drawing on a wealth of individual-level historical data from the town of Casalecchio, David Kertzer, an anthropologist, and Dennis Hogan, a sociologist, show that macrolevel social and economic changes affected members of different classes living in the same community differently. In Casalecchio there occurred not one, but four, temporally discontinuous fertility transitions, a finding that challenges the image fostered by the European Project of whole regions undergoing demographic transition together. Kertzer and Hogan corroborate the European Project's finding that fertility decline does not follow changes
Economic system · Economics · Fertility · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Demography · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
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Human Diet
Population Pressure, Social Change, Culture and Malawi's Pattern of Fertility Transition
Comparing Reports of Health-Seeking Behavior From the Integrated Illness History and a Standard Child Morbidity Survey
Ethnic context and fertility differential in post‐Soviet Kazakhstan
Uncontained subjects
Agricultural property, matrimonial structures, and reproductive behaviour of the Guedmiwa Berbers (Azegour Valley, Marrakech, Morocco)
Irish Demography in a Comparative Context
The Politics of Reproduction
Cooking Data Culture and Politics in an African Research World
Institutional Effects on Rural Economic and Demographic Change
The Agenda of Population Studies
Violence and precarity
Demographic consequences of unpredictability in fertility outcomes
Social Networks and Reproductive Healthcare-Seeking Behaviour of Garo and Mandai Women in Bangladesh
Who Are Brazil’s Indígenas? Contributions of Census Data Analysis to Anthropological Demography of Indigenous Populations
Institutional Contexts and Mortality
Fertility and faith
Diversity, Minority Share, and the Fertility Differential Between Turks and Han in China
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Economic Reforms and Fertility Behaviour in Rural China
Uncertainty and the Second Space
Gender Equality and Fertility
Fertility and Culture in Eastern Europe
Population Policy in Early Victorian England
Urbanization and the fertility transition in Ghana
Group Normative Propensities, Societal Positioning, and Childbearing
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Fertility Behaviors of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
On Mobility and Fertility Transitions in East and Southeast Asia
Bangladesh in the fertility transition
The Determinants of Low Fertility in India
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Ethnic Variations in Observance and Rationale for Postpartum Sexual Abstinence in Malawi
New zodiacal influences on chinese family formation
Unveiling Mexico's Demographic Transitions
Son Preference in the Context of Fertility Decline
Understanding the Prevalence of Female Sterilization in Rural South India
Fertility Has Been Framed
The Demographic Transition Then and Now
Fertility and Distorted Sex Ratios in a Rural Chinese County
Researching sexual and reproductive behaviour
Cultural constructions of the concept of household in sample surveys
Reflections on the Value of Anthropology for Understanding Population Processes
I was obligated to accept
Family planning, Islam and sin
An evaluation of demographers' use of ethnographies
What's so troubling about 'voluntary' family planning anyway? A feminist perspective
Thirty years of 'strange bedmates
Absent and Problematic Men
Population and Climate Change
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Family planning in Pakistan
Théories de la fécondité
Patriarchy and fertility in Albania
Disciplining anthropological demography
Continuity and change in the Gwembe Tonga family and their relevance to demography's nucleation thesis
Population regulation, ecology, and political economy in preindustrial Iceland
Controlling births and bodies in village China
Contingent Lives
Anthropology, Demography, and the Search for a Critical Analysis of Fertility
Marriage, Social Inequality, and Women's Contact with Their Natal Families in Alliance Societies
The Microdemographic Community-Study Approach
Community Context, Women's Natal Kin Ties, and Demand for Children
Toward A Synthesis of Feminist and Demographic Perspectives on Fertility
The Social Construction of Population Science
| Unique citing works | 79 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,14 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2026 (38) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 72 |