Book Launch: Population Politics and Development

Welcome to the launch of Lisa Ann Richey‘s book: Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics, Thursday, 15 January 2009, 1:00-3:00pm, Building 25.1 Roskilde University.

• Welcome by Gorm Rye Olsen, Head of Department of Society and Globalisation
• Population Politics and Development, Lisa Ann Richey, Department of Society and Globalisation
• Discussion, Signe Arnfred, Department of Society and Globalisation
• Discussion, Holger Bernt Hansen, Professor, Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen
• Questions and answers
• Closing Remarks and Invitation to Reception, Gorm Rye Olsen

RECEPTION

For more details on the book, please see publisher’s info. Registration is not necessary. Please feel free to forward this invitation.

About the book:
This book uses political and socio-anthropological theory to examine the relationship between power, interest, and agency within population and family planning discourse across Africa, with particular emphasis on case studies from Tanzania.

Praise:

“Lisa Ann Richey has written a highly engaging and thoroughly researched account of population politics in Tanzania. Based on extensive fieldwork in three regions of the country, Richey provides an insightful feminist critique of global population discourse and local family planning practice. Population Politics and Development should be read by anyone interested in the history of global population policy and in the ways it shapes African women’s lives.”–Frances Vavrus, Associate Professor of International and Transcultural Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University

“Lisa Ann Richey carefully and eloquently elucidates the complex web of relationships between international population policies, the Tanzanian state, and the main target of population programs–poor women seeking reproductive health and family services at the local level. Theoretically sophisticated but grounded in solid clinic-level field work, this pathbreaking book should trigger challenges and changes to current neo-liberal models of development, women’s health, and HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in Africa.”–Betsy Hartmann, Director, Population and Development Program, Hampshire College, and author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

“This book demonstrates the crucial importance of evaluating local and global development initiatives together. Building her argument around a detailed examination of an integrated reproductive health project in Tanzania, Richey leaves no doubt that this ‘double vision’ is necessary if development is to be more than empty rhetoric evaded and ignored by local praxis.”–Jane Parpart, Visiting Professor of Gender Studies, University of the West Indies