Of Temporal Politics and Demographic Anxieties: "Young Mothers" in Demographic Predictions and Social Life in Vanuatu

Authors

  • Alexandra Widmer York University

Keywords:

Time, demography, Vanuatu, reproduction, biopolitics, geopolitics

Abstract

In this article, I examine demographic predictions
and preliminary youth and population policy in concert with
young women's experiences during and immediately after
pregnancy in Vanuatu, a Pacific island nation with rapid popu
lation growth. I propose that time, in representations of the
future and the past as they relate to social and biological
reproduction, is a valuable lens for analyzing the interplay
between demographic knowledge in development discourse
and daily lives of young women. In this way, I add the notion
of temporal politics to the social and historical analysis of
demography that emphasizes biopolitics and geopolitics.

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Published

2013-11-30

How to Cite

Widmer, A. (2013). Of Temporal Politics and Demographic Anxieties: "Young Mothers" in Demographic Predictions and Social Life in Vanuatu. Anthropologica, 55(2), 317–328. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/691

Issue

Vol. 55 No. 2 (2013): Time and the Expert: Temporalities and the Social Life of Expertise

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Copyright (c) 2013 Alexandra Widmer

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