
Demographic Desires
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The book highlights nuances of demographic realities which are co-constituted through historical and contemporary narratives, media images, public policy, and medical discourse. Addressing recurring questions about demography, women's reproductive justice, and the visual manifestations of neoliberal aspirations of Indians, this book contributes to conversations that provide an 'alter-narrative' to demographic anxieties. Appleton proposes that demographic desires exist not in opposition to demographic anxiety, but rather as vital adjacent project.
Demographic Desires brings together debates in medical anthropology, media and cultural studies, and a feminist engagement on the medical, scientific, and cultural to showcase the myriad ways emergency contraception in India offers new opportunities for complicating the relationship between contraception, mediated medicine, and demography.
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She has published in leading academic journals (Anthropology and Medicine, American Anthropologist, Economic and Political Weekly, to list but three) and non-academic public facing news platforms (The Hindu, The Wire, The Citizen, again, to just list three). She serves on numerous academic publishing/journal editorial boards, including Science, Technology, and Human Value (STHV). She is also the recipient of the New Zealand Royal Society's Marden Fast Start grant (2023) which is focused on researching the Social Lives of Sex Hormones: Our Hormones, Our Selves in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Content
List of Figures
Preface: Population, Polity, and Reproductive Justice in Contemporary India
Section A
The (neo)logics of Demographics, Liberalization, and Malthusianism
Chapter 1 Media, Medicine, and Demographic Desires
Chapter 2 Material Conditions and Social Lives of ECPs
Interlude I: Locations: Physical and Positional
Section B
Demographic Histories: Desiring State, Complicit Medicine
Chapter 3 Temporal Desires: From ' The Emergency' to Emergency Contraception
Chapter 4 Desiring Emergency Contraception: Settling Debates, Creating Markets
Interlude II: Locations: Iron!
Section C
Tracing the Circuit: Regulation, Circulation, Representation, Consumption
Chapter 5 Circulation and Regulations: From Pharmacy Floor to State Policy
Chapter 6 Representation and Consumption: Advertising Images Bleed into the Everyday
Interlude III: Locations: An Ode to Research in India
Section D
Desires Co-opted: Jaghe Kaha Hein/Where is the space?
Chapter 7 Stratified contraception and Overpopulation Narratives
Concluding Thoughts: Population Predictions, Climate Crisis, and Unsettling Demographic Desires
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