Projects

STOP THE BLAME: population control imagery

Download this digital flash archive or request a CD. It displays historical prints, posters and articles that articulate overpopulation anxieties and illustrate population control policies. The interactive presentation offers a rare overview of the visual media of past and present population control agendas in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. It is a tool that can be used in classrooms, activist trainings, and public talks. Each image is accompanied by a written description that provides context and food for thought.

POPULATION IN PERSPECTIVE

A Curriculum Resource
Population in Perspective is a high school-level curriculum resource that challenges students to think critically about national and international population, development, and environment issues. It is also appropriate for many college level courses.

REVIVING REPRODUCTIVE SAFETY

Reviving Reproductive Safety is a series of publications and activist tools that critically examines the health risks and ethical concerns surrounding contraceptives like Depo Provera and Quinacrine and new reproductive technologies.

DIFFERENTAKES

An investigative series of issue papers published by Pop/Dev providing alternative information and critical analysis on a wide range of reproductive rights and population concerns including militarism, immigration policy, coercive contraception and sterilization, queer and youth issues, and human rights in the U.S. and abroad.

POPULATION POLICY INITIATIVE

The Population Policy Initiative brings alternative research and analysis grounded in women’s rights and social justice to policy makers in population, environment, security and related fields. It strives to impact population policy by encouraging new ways of thinking and creating spaces for dialogue between activists, educators, researchers, and policy makers.

Publications

Reproductive Justice, Not Population Control:
Breaking the Wrong Links and Making the Right Ones in the Movement for Climate Justice

Betsy Hartmann argues for an approach based on the linkages between reproductive, environmental and climate justice, drawing connections between the same powerful forces driving climate change at the global level and environmental injustice and gender discrimination at the local level. This paper was prepared for the WE ACT for Environmental Justice conference on Advancing Climate Justice: Transforming the Economy, Public Health and Our Environment, January 29-30, New York City, New York.

REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, CLIMATE JUSTICE, PEACE: working paper

The focus on population growth as a root cause of climate change prevents an effective collective response to the true driving forces behind global warming: war and militarism, environmental racism, and unsustainable and unjust systems of production, distribution and consumption.

Babies, Burdens and Threats: Current Faces of Population Control [PDF]

A series of DifferenTakes issue papers, Babies, Burdens and Threats casts a critical eye on the current landscape of population control. It includes articles on topics such as population aging, race and immigration, eugenics and biological determinism, the environment, national security, and a comprehensive overview of why we should rethink and question overpopulation arguments.

Rethinking the Link: A Critical Review of Population-Environment Programs [PDF]

Written by James Oldham, this study reviews projects that combine efforts to reduce population growth with natural resource management and biodiversity conservation. Published jointly by Pop/Dev and the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, the paper evaluates the implications of making this link, including consequences for women's health, community empowerment and environmental justice, and offers recommendations for change.

Reviving Reproductive Safety: Series 1, Fall 2005 [PDF]

A series of DifferenTakes publications that critically examine issues of contraceptive safety, new reproductive technologies, population control and women's health. Reviving Reproductive Safety brings issues of health, safety and social justice to the forefront of the reproductive rights movement.