Demographic change as dystopia

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Embedded in a long tradition of demographic dystopias, which Spanish demographer Andreu Domingo examined in the popular literature of the last two centuries, contemporary discourses of demographic change raise a variety of questions. This chapter focuses on the order of demographic future knowledge and its discursive depth structures, in the sense of underlying orders of thought and communicational power. Foucault&s;s manifold legacy allows examination of its conditions of possibility. The chapter analyses both of the discursive fields that provide the fundamentals of a specific contemporary governmentality of demographic change. It concerns the fabrication of demographic future knowledge, focuses on the underlying &s;rationality&s; consisting of key categories, measures, and population projections in the scientific field, and the empirically situates &s;garbled demography&s; in the present by describing discursive regularities in 3810 German media texts dating from 2000 to 2013. Finally, the chapter connects these discursive fields to &s;demographization&s; and outlines a specific governmentality of demographic change.

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