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SUMMARY:Governing Population, Malaria, & Killer Mosquitoes: Early Development in Turkish Public Health
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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.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Asian Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://asianstudies.msu.edu\n
 Contact phone: 517-353-1680\n
LOCATION:201 International Center
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