From ‘race hygiene’ to ‘national-productivist hygiene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6293145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alberto Spektorowski (0000-0002-5170-8522, Tel Aviv University), Liza Ireni‐saban (0000-0002-0074-1744, Reichman University), Liza Ireni-Saban |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-193 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Political Ideologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9317 • E-ISSN: 1469-9613 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569317.2011.575683 |
| OpenAlex | W2005680464 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article aims to locate a shift from ‘racial’ eugenics to ‘national-welfare’ eugenics during the 1930s when eugenic policies could no longer be understood independently of socio-economic factors. Eugenic strategies were favoured by social democratic and labour movements as a tool for productionist welfare. In other words, to have welfare, a society should reduce its social non-productive margins while enhancing the productivist aspects. As we shall demonstrate through case studies of Israel and Sweden, social democratic and labour movements were the key agents of these policies. They defended their countries' ethno-national identity guised under a productivist stance. Such a ‘collectivist’ type of eugenics—a social productivist one, which is a category located between racism and liberalism, is basically tailored for ‘people's home’ countries, two of which are analysed in this article. In short, we use as a case study a comparison between Israel and Sweden to show how such eugenic strategies arose over time in ‘people's home’ countries, which synthesized productivism and national welfare
Collectivism · Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Eugenics · Ideology · Individualism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · Welfare · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Medical History and Research
In the Name of Eugenics
“Mothers Birth the Nation”
The Founding Myths of Israel
Professional Identity across the Borders
The Modernist Manifesto of Alva and Gunnar Myrdal
Eugenics and the Sterilization Debate in Sweden and Britain Before World War II
Eugenics and the Welfare State in Sweden
Population Problems and Policies
The Social Democratic Moment
Dissecting German Social Darwinism
Before the Cradle
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |