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SUMMARY:Governing Population, Malaria, and Killer Mosquitoes: Early Developments in Turkish Public Health 
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 	CASID/GenCen Friday Forum presented by Kyle 
 T. Evered & Emine O. Evered, Department 
 of Geography & Department of History.\n
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 	"In the early Turkish republic of the 1920s, 
 population was a central question of concern 
 for the Kemalist state as its leadership 
 dealt with not merely its geopolitical or nationalistic 
 dimensions but also contemplated 
 its economic consequence. In this context, state 
 responses to socio-political matters such 
 as public health revealed themselves to be 
 entirely consistent with critical theories of 
 governance and political economy. This presentation 
 focuses on how a demographic discourse 
 concerning population--in terms both numeric 
 and medical--provided a basis for emerging 
 programs in public health and confronting the 
 very real threats posed by disease. Employing 
 the example of the nascent republic's anti-malarial 
 campaigns, this study thus examines 
 the discursive, cartographic, and legislative 
 measures employed in combating this prevalent 
 disease in wider contexts of nation-building. 
 In doing so, it traces one vital trajectory 
 of the development of governmentality (i.e., 
 public health) in the case of Turkey from the 
 1920s through the post-war era when infusions 
 of foreign aid and the incorporation of DDT 
 altered substantially the means of confronting 
 malaria, but not the population.In the early 
 Turkish republic of the 1920s, population 
 was a central question of concern for the Kemalist 
 state as its leadership dealt with not 
 merely its geopolitical or nationalistic dimensions 
 but also contemplated its economic consequence. 
 In this context, state responses 
 to socio-political matters such as public health 
 revealed themselves to be entirely consistent 
 with critical theories of governance and 
 political economy. This presentation focuses 
 on how a demographic discourse concerning population 
 -- in terms both numeric and medical 
 -- provided a basis for emerging programs in 
 public health and confronting the very real 
 threats posed by disease. Employing the example 
 of the nascent republic's anti-malarial campaigns, 
 this study thus examines the discursive, 
 cartographic, and legislative measures employed 
 in combating this prevalent disease in 
 wider contexts of nation-building. In doing 
 so, it traces one vital trajectory of the development 
 of governmentality (i.e., public health) 
 in the case of Turkey from the 1920s through 
 the post-war era when infusions of foreign 
 aid and the incorporation of DDT altered 
 substantially the means of confronting malaria, 
 but not the population."\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Center for Gender in Global Context\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://gencen.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: CASID\n
 Contact phone: (517)353-5925\n
 Contact email: casid@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://casid.isp.msu.edu/events/documents/SEPT10.doc\n
LOCATION:201 International Center
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