131:150 Topics In Women Studies, Sec 2,
44:197/297 Special Topics in Geography, Sec 2
Population,
Environment & Development: Critical Issues/Feminist
Perspectives.
Instructor : Prof. Jael Silliman,
Office : 205 Jefferson Building, Ph : 5 -1609, e-mail :
jael-silliman@uiowaedu
Class Meeting Times : MW 2:30 - 3:45 , 151 SH
Office Hours : Tues: 10 - 12am.
Course Description: This course will
employ a human rights framework to examine the history and current
features of population and envrionmental programs and their
interactions. It reviews the history and politics of population
programs over the last four decades, outlining the way the field has
evolved. Particular attention is paid to current efforts to transform
these policies, from a focus on demographic goals, to a focus on
human rights, quality of life and gender empowerment as the
center-pieces of population and development efforts. The role of the
transnational women's movement in redefining population paradigms is
highlighted. Emphasis is also focused on efforts to transform
environmental politics and policies with attention to issues of
social justice and human rights. Three case, the Narmada Valley
Project, the building of the Transamazonian Highway and
the Environmental Justice movement will serve to illustrate
the limitations of traditional environmental and development
interventions and the challenges that have been mounted against them.
The final weeks of the course will study alternative theoretical and
activist frameworks on population, development and environmental
concerns.
Requirements : Students will be
required to attend all classes and do all the readings, and
participate in class discussions. Each student will write four
response papers, which are their responses to the readings for the
weeks they have selected. These papers will be 5 - 7 pages or so in
length for undergraduates and slightly longer for graduate students.
It is suggested that students buy the
key course books which are :
- Reproductive Rights and Wrongs : Hartmann
- Beyond the Numbers,: Mazur
- Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment and
Rights,: Chen, Sen and Germaine
- Earth Follies : Coming to Feminist Terms with the Global
Enviromental Crisis , Seager
- Taking Populiaton Out of the Equation,: Hynes
- Towards Sustainable Development : Struggling Over India's
Narmada River , Fisher
Other readings are available on Reserve at the library.
Week 1
Questioning Development : Human Rights, Feminist and
Environmental Challenges :
Isbister, John, "Promises not Kept", chapters 1 and 2.
Introduction by M Schuler in "From Basic Needs to Basic Rights :
Women's Claims to Human Rights.
F. Butegwa, "International Human Rights Law and Practic :
Implications for Women" in From Basic Needs to Basic Rights.
Vandana Shiva, "Development as A New Project of Western
Patriarchy" in Reweaving the World"
World Watch Paper 127 : Eco-Justice : Linking Human Rights and the
Environment.
Human Rights Campaigns and Resources
http://www.hrw.org/home.html
http://www.hrweb.org/
Human Rights
Declaration
Weeks 2 and 3:
The Genesis and development of Population Programs : Malthus and
the neo-Malthusians
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Thomas Malthus, "An Essay on the Principle of Population,
in Menard and Moen, eds., Perspectives on Population, New
York, Oxford University Press.
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/malthus/popu.txt
Malthus : Who Was he ?
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/malthus.html
Paul Ehrlich, 1968, Population Bomb, Ballantine Books
Do you want to know more
http://www3.pbs.org/kqed/population_bomb/bio.html
http://www.all.org/resource/po03.htm
Garrett Hardin, 1977 "The Tragedy of the Commons",
"Intuition First, Then Rigor", "Ethical Implications of
Carrying Capacity", "Living On a Lifeboat", in Managing the
Commons, W. H. Freeman and Company.
http://www.aloha.net/~jhanson/page79.htm
Betsy Hartmann, 1994, "Reproductive Rights and Wrongs":
The Global Politics of Population Control and Reproductive
Choice", New York, Harper and Row, "Malthusian Orthodoxy,"
p. 13 - 40, "The Plan Behind Family Planning 57 - 73, and
"Birth of an Ideology" p.93 -113.
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Weeks 4 & 5 :
History and Analysis of Population Programs : An Overview
"The Population Establishment Today in \Hartmann, Reproductive
Rights and Wrongs: p.113 - 130; and "The Plan Behind Family Planning
p .57 - 88.
Peter Donaldson and Amy Ong Tsui, 1994 "The International Family
Planning Movement" in Beyond the Numbers : A Reader on Population,
Consumption and the Environment, ed. Mazur, Island Press.
Sharon Camp, 1994 " The Politics of U.S. Population Assistance" in
Beyond the Numbers.
Film : Something like a War or China's Only Child
Jodi Jacobson, "Abortion and the Global Crisis in Women's Health"
in Beyond the Numbers.
Hartmann, "The Indonesian "Success and the Kenyan "Failure" p. 73
- 92, and China "Gold Babies and Disappearing Girls" p 157 - 172.
Weeks 6 and 7 :
Environment Interactions
Mark Sagoff "Population Nature and the Environment" in Beyond the
Numbers.
G.Sen. 1994. "Development, Population and the Environment : A
Search for Balance" in Population Policies Reconsidered.
Alan Thein Durning, "The Conundrum of Consumption" in Beyond the
Numbers.
Donella Meadows, "Seeing the Population Issue Whole" in Beyond the
Numbers
L. Arizpe and D. Majors, ed. 1994 Population and the Environment :
Rethinking the Debate, Westview Press.
Patricia Hynes, 1993 : Taking Population of the Equation :
Reformulating I=PAT, Institute on Women In Technology, North Amherst,
Mass.
Paul Harrison, 1992 - '93, The Third Revolution : Population,
Environment and A Sustainable World, Penguin Books.
World Resources 1994 - 95, People and the Environment, September
1994, Published by World Resources institute with the United Nations
Environment Program and the United Nations Development Program.
Janice Jiggins, Changing the Boundaries: Women-Centered
Perspectives on Population and the Enviroment. Recommended
Weeks 8 - 13 :
Critiques of and Resistance to Population and Enviromental
Programs
Earth Follies : Chapters to be asigned.
Moreno and Claro. 1994. "Challenges from The Women's Health
Movement: Women's Rights versus Population Control" in Poulation
Policies Reconsidered p. 41 - 61
CASE STUDIES :
Case Study on the Narmada Dam controversy :
http://home.dti.net/foil/economy/ecology/nbapg.htm
http://www.irn.org/irn/programs/narmada/nba9510.html
Fisher (Ed). Towards Sustainable Development, chapters 1, 3, 4, 5,
6, 14 and 15
Video : Narmada Diary and The Valley Rises
Case 2: Trans-Amazonian Highway :
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Wood, Charles and J de Carvalho, The Demography of
Inequality in Brazil, chapter 10 "Colonization and frontier
Expansion in Amazonia," p. 221 - 236.
Goodman, David and A. Hall, The Future of Amazonia
Introduction, p. 1 - 18
Fernside, "Environmental Destruction in the Brazilian
Amazon" in The Future of Amazonia, p. 179 - 225.
Alcida R. Ramos, "Frontier Expansion and Indian Peoples
in the Brazilian Amazon" in
Schmink and Wood (Ed) Frontier Expansion in Amazonia, p.
83 - 104.
Hecht, Susanna and A. Cockburn "The General's Blueprint"
in The Fate of the Forest, p 95 - 128.
http://www.bdt.org.br/bdt/english/index/biodiversidade/binbr/ecossistemas/amazonia
http://www.cs.org/links.html#soa
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Case 3 : Environmental Racism :
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrajzer/nre/index.html
Principles
of Environmental Justice
Bullard, (ed) "Confronting Enviromental Racism"
Bullard, Anatomy of Enviromental Racism and the Environmental
Justice Movement
Taylor, D. Environmentalism and the Politics of Inclusion
Alston and Brown, Global Threats to People of Color
Bullard Environmentalism with Justice.
Silliman, 1997 : Women's Health and environmental Justice : Making
the Connections, in Race, Class and Gender.
Video on the Environmental Justice Summit.
Weeks 13- 15 :
Developing Alternative Theoretical Approaches
W. M Adams, "Green Development Theory in Crush (Ed) Power of
Development, Routledge, 1995. p87 - 99
Mellor, Building A New Vision : Feminist Green Socalism from Toxic
Struggles
Petchesky and Correa, "Reproductive and Sexual Rights : A Feminist
Perspective" in Population Policies Reconsidered,.
Boland, Rao and Zeridenstein, 1994 "Honoring Human Rights in
Population Policies : From Declaration to Action" in Population
Policies Reconsidered. p 89 - 105.
Aitken and Reichenbach. 1994. "Reproductive and Sexual Health
Services : Expanding Access and Enhancing Quality" in Population
Policies Reconsidered.
Jain and Bruce. 1994 "A Reproductive health Approach to the
Objectives and Assessment of Family Planning Programs" in Population
Policies Reconsidered.
Ruth Dixon Mueller, "Women's Rights and Reproductive Choice:
Rethinking the Connections" in Beyond the Numbers
Cynthia B. Lloyd, "Family and Gender Issues for Population Policy"
in Beyond the Numbers.
RESOURCES :
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE DOCUMENTS AND RESOURCES ON POPULATION,
ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT :
