Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century

Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9781000774177
ISBN-13 : 1000774171
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Book Synopsis Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century by : Barbara Klich-Kluczewska

Download or read book Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century written by Barbara Klich-Kluczewska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of biopolitics encompasses issues from health and hygiene, birth rates, fertility and sexuality, life expectancy and demography to eugenics and racial regimes. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive view on these issues for Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. The cataclysms of imperial collapse, World War(s) and the Holocaust but also the rise of state socialism after 1945 provided extraordinary and distinct conditions for the governing of life and death. The volume collects the latest research and empirical studies from the region to showcase the diversity of biopolitical regimes in their regional and global context – from hunger relief for Hungarian children after the First World War to abortion legislation in communist Poland. It underlines the similarities as well, demonstrating how biopolitical strategies in this area often revolved around the notion of an endangered nation; and how ideological schemes and post-imperial experiences in Eastern Europe further complicate a 'western' understanding of democratic participatory and authoritarian repressive biopolitics. The new geographical focus invites scholars and students of social and human sciences to reconsider established perspectives on the history of population management and the history of Europe.


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