POL114H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Postcolonialism, Maternal Death, Labour Power
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Chapter 11: population growth, movements and global health: population growth/movements: Feminists: debate over population control has been a masculine moral construction that ignores women"s reproductive health and rights, and migration"s dark side (global trafficking, sex trade): neo-malthusian: by thomas malthus. Argument that resources will be outstripped by population growth in the modern era; has led to calls for strict population control. Poverty and hunger were a product of social relations, not absolute overpopulation (williams, 2009, p. 31): neo-marxists believe that malthus" day has not changed today; malnutrition and undernourishment are largely a consequence of inadequate distribution. A sudden increase in food and commodity price made foodstuffs unaffordable to millions of people worldwide: examples for population and level of food production do not cause malnutrition: Japan is densely populated with no natural energy or mineral resources and yet there is no mass starvation: brazil is the fourth largest food exporter, but millions of brazilians face food insecurity.
