Asst. Prof. Dr. Tyler Zoanni
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Projekte & Publikationen
The workshop “Beyond Demographic Destiny” seeks to challenge the ways in which
public debates and mass media invoke demographic factors as if they were
mechanical causal levers for all kinds of transformation: aging societies, patterns of
migration, environmental degradation, economic growth, and more. The workshop
will also try to think beyond some recent proposals from science-and-technology
studies (STS) that denounce demography and population-level thinking as inevitably
racist and anti-democratic. Convening a distinguished international group of
scholars within the critical social sciences—anthropology, history, sociology, STS—I
hope to foster new approaches, collaborations, and publications that will enable
fresh takes on demographic possibilities. The word possibilities is here key; rather
than assume demographic forces are natural kinds that drive human affairs, we will
examine the making of demographic knowledge and its translations into politics,
media, economy, and social and cultural life. At the same, the workshop will take
seriously demography as a social and material force. Along these lines, the
workshop asks not only how we can think simply for or against demography, but how
research, activism, and policy-making can think with demography for the sake of
more just, equal, and democratic futures.