Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century : fearing for the nation / edited by Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Joachim von Puttkamer, and Immo Rebitschek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klich-Kluczewska, Barbara, 1974- editor.

Puttkamer, Joachim von, editor.

Rebitschek, Immo, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge histories of Central and Eastern Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biopolitics--Europe, Central--History--20th century.

Biopolitics.

Biopolitics--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Europe, Central--Population policy--History--20th century.

Europe, Central.

Europe, Eastern--Population policy--History--20th century.

Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 267 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Barbara Klich-Kluczewska is an Associate Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and a cultural historian of twentieth-century Poland. Her fields of research include history of family, history of sexuality and gender, biopolitics and history of experts' knowledge. Joachim von Puttkamer is Director of the Imre Kerťsz Kolleg Jena at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. His research focusses on nationalism and statehood in modern Central and Eastern Europe. Immo Rebitschek is an Assistant Professor at the Department for Eastern European History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He has published widely on the history of the Soviet procuracy in Stalinist Russia and is currently focussing his research on the history of famines in the late Russian empire.

Contents:

Introduction / Joachim von Puttkamer and Immo Rebitschek

Is biopower something to be afraid of? : biopolitics as a research category in historiography / Barbara Klich-Kluczewska

Regenerating the nation : eugenics and racial hygiene in early twentieth century Austria / Herwig Czech

'Each Jewish child is precious' : survivor community in Poland and its biopolitical discourses / Natalia Aleksiun

'Marital intercourse means togetherness and parenthood' : the biopolitics of Catholic marriage preparation in Poland during the 1970s / Agata Ignaciuk

Whose children? : pronatalist incentives and social categorization in socialist Romania / Corina Doboș

State and parenthood : family planning policy in socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1991) / Ivana Dobrivojević

Blind faith or divine providence? : global Catholicism and the population bomb / Wannes Dupont

Feeding hungry bodies : children's nutrition as biopolitics after the Great War / Friederike Kind-Kovács

Disinfection trains : fighting lice on Polish railways, 1918-1920 / Lukasz Mieszkowski

The intricacies of communist biopolitics : control of disease and epidemics in the Polish countryside after 1945 / Ewelina Szpak

State socialist biopolitics : four stages of human development in post-war Czechoslovakia / Jakub Rákosník and Radka Šustrová

Imperial biopolitics : famine in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1891 to 1947 / Immo Rebitschek

Fearing the nation, fearing for the nation and fearing other nations : compulsory vaccination in twentieth-century Germany / Malte Thiessen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 08, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century

ISBN:

9781000774177

1000774171

9781003161080

1003161081

9781000774146

1000774147

Publisher Number:

40031408938

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