Captain George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers and the Prehistory of the IUSSP
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5146550 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Landis Mackellar (Senior Associate, Population Council, New York, and former Executive Director of the IUSSP.), Bradley W Hart (0000-0003-0667-0702, Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Humanities, California State University, Fresno.) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 653-675 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2014.00005.x |
| OpenAlex | W2054961371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Captain George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, Secretary General of the International Union for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems (IUSIPP, 1928-ca. 1942), the precursor of today's International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP, 1947-present), was a central figure in population science during the 1930s. With his pro-Nazi activism, anti-Semitism, Red-baiting, and failure to leave any intellectual mark of consequence, he is an idiosyncratic and in some ways unattractive subject. However, an examination of Pitt-Rivers's role as Secretary General reveals a wealth of information about the IUSIPP as it lurched toward collapse. It casts light, as well, on the struggle for scientific legitimacy between eugenic racialists and reformers in the 1930s, a struggle in which he played a controversial and divisive role. Using a combination of newly discovered and old archival material, this article traces Pitt-Rivers's involvement with the Union, the British eugenics establishment, Nazi population science, and far-right British politics during this turbulent decade when demography emerged as an international discipline
Art history · Economic history · Eugenics · George (robot) · Legitimacy · Library science · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Demography · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Medical History and Research · Race, Genetics, and Society
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