Mediating Means and Fate

A Socio-Political Analysis of Fertility and Demographic Change in Bamako, Mali
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-12033-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Reihe: African Social Studies Series

Why do birth rates fail to drop in Sub-Saharan Africa? This question has preoccupied demographers and population planners for decades. The expectation of fertility decline is based on the demographic transition model which still dominates demographic thinking, and which assumes a universal development towards low mortality and fertility levels following modernisation.
This book argues that population dynamics can only be understood when viewed in their particular context. It provides both a critique of demographic methods and theorizing, and a detailed analysis of fertility issues in the rapidly changing urban environment of Bamako, capital city of Mali.
A new light is shed on the population debate through the conceptualization of the meso-level, illuminating a part of the social world which usually remains obscure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brand, Saskia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Über Autor(innen)

Saskia Brand, Ph.D. (2000) in Cultural Anthropology, Leiden University, specializes in gender studies and population issues. Recent publications include ‘Civil Law vs the Mande Conception of Gendered Personhood’ (In: Risseeuw & Ganesh (eds.), Negotiation and Social Space, Sage, 1998).