A new Sociology of Development Policy Brief is out! Volume 5, Issue 3 (2020) is: “The Revival of Population Control and Technocratic Family Planning in the 21st Century” by Daniel Bendix (Friedensau Adventist University) and Susanne Schultz (Goethe University Frankfurt).

Also, here is a message from our Policy Brief editor Alaka Basu:

Here  is the third of the 2020 series of Policy Briefs being edited by me for the Sociology of Development section of ASA.

The policy brief of 2020 is titled: “The Revival of Population Control and Technocratic Family Planning in the 21st Century,” by Daniel Bendix and Susanne Schultz (2020, vol 5, iss. 3)

I welcome expressions of interest to contribute. While I am open to any ideas you have, your pitch should ideally include a reference to something you have published on the subject, so that we can assume a base level of peer reviewing of the material.

Thanks again and looking forward to keeping this going.

Alaka M. Basu, Professor
Department of Development Sociology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
ab54@cornell.edu