Making Kin not Population - Reconceiving Generations

As the planet’s human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and kinship as matters of concern. From government programs designed to fight declining birth rates in Europe and East Asia, to controversial policies seeking to curb population growth in countries where birth rates remain high, to increasing income inequality transnationally, issues of reproduction introduce new and complicated moral and political quandaries.

Making Kin Not Population ends the silence on these issues with essays from leading anti-racist, ecologically-concerned, feminist scholars. Though not always in accord, these contributors provide bold analyses of complex issues of intimacy and kinship, from reproductive justice to environmental justice, and from human and nonhuman genocides to new practices for making families and kin. This timely work offers vital proposals for forging innovative personal and public connections in the contemporary world.

Pe masura ce numarul uman al planetei creste si ingrijoreaza problemele legate de mediu, oamenii de stiinta din natura, economistii si factorii de decizie politica se indreapta din ce in ce mai mult spre intrebari noi si vechi despre familii si rudenie ca probleme de ingrijorare. De la programe guvernamentale menite sa combata scaderea natalitatii in Europa si Asia de Est, la politici controversate care incearca sa reduca cresterea populatiei in tarile in care rata natalitatii ramane ridicata, la cresterea inegalitatii veniturilor la nivel transnational, problemele reproducerii introduc noi si complicate dileme morale si politice. Kin Not Population pune capat tacerii cu privire la aceste probleme cu eseuri ale unor erudite feministe anti-rasiste, preocupate ecologic.