Bio
Elizabeth (Betsy) Hartmann
OFFICE ADDRESS:
Director, Population and
Development Program
CLPP
Hampshire College
Amherst, Massachusetts 01002
Phone: (413) 559-6046
Fax: (413) 559-5826
EDUCATION:
B.A., Yale University, 1974.
Magna cum laude
with Distinction in Division IV Self-Designed
Interdisciplinary Major in South Asian Studies.
Yale-Carnegie Five Year B.A.
Program fellowship to work in Gujarat, India, 1971-72.
Howland International
Fellowship for post-graduation field work in Bangladesh.
PhD, Development Studies,
London School of Economics and Political Science, March
2003.
Dissertation title:
Strategic Scarcity: The Origins and Impact of
Environmental Conflict Ideas.
POSITIONS HELD
Director, Population and
Development Program, Hampshire College (from 1988).
Associate Professor,
Development Studies, School of Social Science, Hampshire
College (from 2006).
Responsibilities include
teaching; research; writing; curricular development;
editing program publications; public speaking and advocacy
in the fields of international women's health,
reproductive rights, development, environment and
security; and working with the Civil Liberties and Public
Policy Program on joint projects and programs such as the
annual conference on reproductive rights and the
Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps summer
internship program. Courses taught: Rethinking the
Population Problem; Reproductive Rights: National and
International Perspectives; Population, Environment and
Security; Interrogating Fear: Bioterror, the Environment
and the Construction of Threats; Framing Climate Change:
Who’s Taking the Heat for Global Warming? (Fall 2008).
Independent writing and
advocacy work in the fields of development, reproductive
rights, and human rights. (1981-87).
Project manager, Economic
Development Bureau, Training Course in Petroleum Economics
for Third World Officials, New Haven, CT (1979-80).
Visiting Lecturer, Department
of Economics, Yale University (1978-79).
Designed and co-taught
undergraduate seminar for two semesters on “The Political
Economy of Hunger.”
LANGUAGES:
Intermediate Spanish
Past proficiency in French and
(spoken) Bengali
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
(2008) Deadly Election,
a political thriller. White River, VT: White River Press.
(2005) Making Threats:
Biofears and Environmental Anxieties, eds. Betsy
Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam and Charles Zerner, Rowman and
Littlefield.
(2002) The Truth about Fire,
a novel about the Far Right. New York: Carroll &
Graf Publishers.
(1995) Reproductive Rights
and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control
(updated and revised edition). Boston: South End
Publishers.
(1987) Reproductive Rights
and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control and
Contraceptive Choice. New York: Harper and Row
Publishers.
(1983) A
Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village
(with James Boyce). London: Zed Press; Delhi: Oxford
University Press; and San Francisco: Institute for Food
and Development Policy.
Books in progress:
The Naturalist
(novel)
Mongraphs and reports:
(2005)
Mainstreaming Gender in
Environmental Assessment and Early Warning: Conceptual
Challenges and Opportunities,
A Report by Joni Seager and Betsy Hartmann, United Nations
Environment Program, Division of Early Warning and
Assessment.
(l989) The Poverty
of Population Control: Family Planning and Health Policy
in Bangladesh (with Hilary Standing). London:
Bangladesh International Action Group.
(1985) Food, Saris, and
Sterilization: Population Control in Bangladesh (with
Hilary Standing). London: Bangladesh International Action
Group.
(1979) Needless Hunger:
Voices from a Bangladesh Village (with James Boyce).
San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy.
German edition, l989.
(1978) “Bangladesh: Aid to the
Needy? (with James Boyce). International Policy
Report, Washington, DC: Center for International
Policy, Vol. 4, No. 1, May.
Chapters in books:
(2006) Preface to Lara M.
Knudsen, Reproductive Rights in a Global Context.
Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
(2005) “Population Growth is Unfairly
Blamed for Ecological Problems,” Population: Opposing
Viewpoints, Farmington Hills, MI: Green Haven
Press/Thomson Gale Publishers. Adaptation of “Conserving
Racism: The Greening of Hate at Home and Abroad,” Znet,
December, 10, 2003.
(2005) “Pernicious Peasants
and Angry Young Men: The Strategic Demography of Threats,”
by Betsy Hartmann and Anne Hendrixson, in Hartmann,
Subramaniam and Zerner, eds., Making Threats: Biofears
and Environmental Anxieties.
(2002 ) "The Changing Faces of
Population Control,” in Anannya Bhattacharjee and Jael
Silliman, eds., Policing the National Body: Sex, Race
and Criminalization. Boston: South End Press.
(2001) "Will the Circle Be
Unbroken: A Critique of the Project on Environment,
Population and Security," in Nancy Peluso and Michael
Watts, eds., Violent Environments. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press.
(2001) "Population Control," in
The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's
Studies.
(1999) "Population,
Environment and Security: A New Trinity," in Jael Silliman
and Ynestra King, eds., Dangerous Intersections:
Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment and
Development. Boston: South End Press.
(1997) "Women, Population and
the Environment: Whose Consensus? Whose Empowerment?" in
Nalini Visvanathan, Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff and Nan
Wigersma, eds., The Women, Gender and Development
Reader. London: Zed Books.
(1993) "The Impact of
Population Control Policies on Health Policy in
Bangladesh," in Meredeth Turshen and Briavel Holcomb,
eds., Women's Lives and Public Policy: The
International Experience. Connecticut: Greenwood
Press.
(1992) "Contraceptive Choice: A
Multitude of Meanings," in Helen Holmes, ed., Issues in
Reproductive Technology I: An Anthology. New York:
Garland Press
(1981) "Needless Hunger:
Poverty and Power in Rural Bangladesh" (with James Boyce),
in R. Galli, ed., The Political Economy of Rural
Development: Peasants, International Capital and the State
.Albany: State University of New York Press, pp.
175-210.
Forthcoming/under review
chapters in books:
“From Climate Refugees to
Climate Conflict: Who is Taking the Heat for Global
Warming,” chapter contribution to Climate Change and
Sustainable Development: New Challenges for Poverty
Reduction, edited by Mohamed Salih, forthcoming from
Edward Elgar Publishers, May 2009.
“Rethinking the Role of
Population in Human Security,” chapter contribution to
Global Environmental Change and Human Security, edited
by Richard Matthew et al, forthcoming from MIT Press,
2009.
“Ghosts of Malthus: Fear,
Loathing and Scarcity,” chapter contribution to an
anthology on scarcity edited by Lyla Mehta, forthcoming
from Earthscan, 2009.
“Gender and Environmental Change: Easy
Answers or Hard Questions?” chapter contribution to
Women and Human Security: Challenges of Conflict and
Global Change, edited by Richard A. Matthew and
Heather Goldsworthy, not yet under review.
“Liberal Ends, Illiberal Means:
National Security, ‘Environmental Conflict’ and the Making
of the Cairo Consensus,” chapter contribution to Mohan Rao
and Sarah Sexton, eds., Revisiting Cairo: Gender,
Population and Health in Neoliberal Times, under
review at Sage, India.
“Eugenics of the Everyday,” chapter
contribution to Sandhya Srinivasan, ed., New
Reproductive Technologies and Women’s Lives in India,
forthcoming from Zubaan Books, New Delhi, India.
Academic Papers:
“Climate Conflict and Climate
Refugees: Who’s Taking the Heat for Global Warming?”,
paper delivered at panel on Climate Change, Society for
the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting , Montreal,
Canada, October 11, 2007. Served as panel chair.
“Eugenics of the Everyday: Some
Preliminary Reflections,” background paper for the
consultation on ‘New” Reproductive and Genetic
Technologies and Women’s Lives, SAMA-Resource Group
for Women and Health, New Delhi, India, June 16-17, 2006.
(2004) “Pulling the Population Thread:
Neo-Malthusian Ideas, Actors and Interests in the
Construction of Environmental Conflict,” paper prepared
for panel on Critical Views of Environmental Security
and Conflict, International Studies Association Annual
Conference, Montreal, March 17, 2004.
“Ghosts of
Malthus: Fear, Loathing and Scarcity,” discussion paper
for the joint U.K. Economic and Social Research Council
and Institute for Development Studies workshop on
Scarcity and the Politics of Allocation, University of
Sussex, June 6-7, 2005.
"Women, Population and the
Environment: Whose Consensus? Whose Empowerment?" paper
presented at the Global Political Ecology Conference, York
University, Toronto, Canada, Feb. 24-27, l994.
“Old Maps
and New Terrain: The Politics of Women, Population and the
Environment,” paper presented to the Fifth International
Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, San José, Costa Rica,
March 1993.
Articles:
“Liberal Ends, Illiberal Means: National
Security, ‘Environmental Conflict’ and the Making of the
Cairo Consensus,” Indian Journal of Gender Studies,
13:2 (2006), pp. 195-227.
“Pro-whose-life? Ten
reasons why militarism is bad for your health,” co-authored
with Ryn Gluckman and Azi Shariatmadar, The Women’s
Review of Books, Vol. XXI, No. 12, September 2004.
“Degradation Narratives:
Over-Simplifying the Link Between Population, Poverty and
the Environment,” IHDP Update, Newsletter of the
International Human Dimensions Program on Global
Environmental Change, No. 4, 2002, pp. 6-8.
“The Return of Relevance,”
Political Environments, Spring 2002.
"Population, Development and
Human Security," AVISO, Information Bulletin on
Global Environmental Change and Human Security, 2000.
"Two Steps Backward for the
Sierra Club," The Progressive, January 2000.
"Dressing Up Malthus,"
Sojourner, Vol. 25, No. 3, November 1999.
"Population, Environment and
Security: A New Trinity," Environment and Urbanization,
vol. 10, no. 2, October 1998.
"Numbers Games and Final
Solutions," Politics and the Life Sciences, vol. 16,
no. 2, September 1997.
"A Risky Business?: Quinacrine,
used to sterilize women worldwide, has yet to be proved
safe," (with Nalini Visvanathan), Boston Sunday Globe,
August 3, 1997.
"Cairo Consensus Sparks New
Hopes, Old Worries," Forum for Applied Research and
Public Policy, vol. 12, no. 2, Summer 1997. Excerpted in
The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, 1998 edition.
"Population Control I: Birth of
an Ideology," and "Population Control II: The Population
Establishment Today" (chapters from Reproductive Rights
and Wrongs), International Journal of Health
Services, vol. 27, no. 3, 1997.
"The Double Challenge:
Reproductive Rights at the Fourth World Women's Conference,"
Whole Earth Review, Fall Issue, 1995.
"Women of the World," In These
Times, October 2, l995.
"Dangerous Intersections,"
Political Environments, No. 2, Summer 1995.
"Questioning the Population
Consensus," Earth Island Journal, Spring 1995.
"The Cairo 'Consensus': Women's
Empowerment or Business as Usual?" Geo Journal, vol.
35, no. 2, February 1995.
"Population Fictions: The
Malthusians are Back in Town," Dollars and Sense,
Boston, Sept./Oct. 1994. Reprinted in Theodore Goldfarb,
ed., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial
Environmental Issues (Sixth Edition), Guilford,
Connecticut: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1995.
"Consensus and Contradiction on
the Road to Cairo," Terra Femina, IDAC, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, August 1994.
"To Vanquish the Hydra,"
Political Environments, No. 1, Spring 1994.
"Old Maps and New Terrain,"
Development, no. 1, 1994.
“A New Snake in Paradise:
Garbage” (with James K. Boyce), Conservation Law
Foundation Newsletter, Boston, Fall 1993.
“Mythes et philosophie des
politiques de control de la population,” Inter-Mondes
(AQOCI-Montreal), 8:4, 1993.
“Population Control in the New
World Order,” Development in Practice, 2:3, 1992.
“Population Control as Foreign
Policy,” CovertAction Bulletin, no. 39, 1991.
“The Ecology Movement: Targeting
Women for Population Control,” Ms., May/June 1991.
“Bankers, Babies and Bangladesh,”
The Progressive, September 1990.
“Turning Back the Tide,” New
Internationalist, no. 161, July 1986.
“Corruption and Coercion” (with
Jane Hughes), Inside Asia, Sept.-Oct. 1985.
“Sterile Debate” (with Jane
Hughes), Economist Development Report, July 1985.
“And the Poor Get Sterilized”
(with Jane Hughes), The Nation, June 30, 1984.
“Campagne de sterilization au
Bangladesh” (with Jane Hughes), Le Monde Diplomatique,
June 1984.
“Barren Policy,” The Guardian
(London), April 27, 1984.
“We Do It Ourselves,” The
Guardian (London), December 17, 1982.
“Bangladeshi Aid: The New Ruling
Class,” South, March 1982.
“Manushi: A New Voice for Indian
Women,” Encore American and Worldwide News, November
1981.
“McNamara’s Legacy: Basic Needs
without Basic Reforms,” South, August 1981.
“Who Works, Who Eats” (with James
Boyce), Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 13:4,
1981.
“Hunger in a Fertile Land” (with
James Boyce), Ceres, March-April 1981.
“Checking out the Bank” (with
James Boyce), New Internationalist, February 1981.
“Lord of the Fields” (with James
Boyce), New Internationalist, November 1980.
“The Hill Tracts” (with James
Boyce), The Nation, December 15, 1979.
“Bangladesh Market: Pyramid of
Power” (with James Boyce), Food Monitor, March-April
1979.
“Dependance et Legitimité au
Bangladesh” (with James Boyce), Le Monde Diplomatique,
September 1978.
“Behind Bamboo Walls,” Country
Women, August 1978.
“Developing Bangladesh: A
Tubewell for the Village Landlord” (with James Boyce),
Food Monitor, May-June 1978.
“U.S. Aid for the Rich: View from
a Bangladesh Village” (with James Boyce), The Nation,
March 4, 1978.
“Roshana” (with James Boyce),
New Internationalist, March 1977.
Book reviews:
Review of The Making of Our Bodies,
Ourselves by Kathy Davis, Women’s Review of Books,
25:4 (July/August 2008): 10-12.
Book review of Global
Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights by
Rosalind Petchesky, Perspectives on Politics 3(2)
June 2005: 425-426.
"Pastoral Symphony," review of
Ariel Salleh's Ecofeminism as Politics, Women's Review of
Books, 16:1, October 1998.
Review of Asoka Bandarage's
Population and Global Crisis, Development in Practice,
November 1997.
"The Greening of Prejudice,"
review of Robert Kaplan, The Ends of the Earth: A
Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century,
Technology Review, Nov./Dec. 1996.
Review of Faye D. Ginsburg and
Rayna Rapp, eds., Conceiving the New World Order: The
Global Politics of Reproduction in
Contemporary Sociology, 25:5, 1996.
Review of Eva Mysliwiec,
Punishing the Poor: The International Isolation of Kampuchea,
Journal of Development Studies, 25:4, 1989.
Review of Jenneke Arens and Jos
van Beurden, Jhagrapur, Bulletin of Concerned
Asian Scholars, 2:2, 1979.
Forthcoming book reviews:
Review of Matthew Connelly,
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World
Population, Journal of Contemporary History.
Newspaper op-eds:
“A Bigger, and greener, America,” (with
Amy Oliver), Daily Hampshire Gazette, October 18,
2006.
“America’s Climate of Fear and
Loathing,” Boston Globe, April 19, 2002.
Syndicated op-ed on World
Population Day for Progressive Media Service, July 2001.
"Wrong Signals on
Overpopulation," Boston Sunday Globe, October 10,
1999.
"What Success Story?" New York
Times, September 29, l994.
"Ar Banwt mun eller manniska,"
Dagens Nyheter (Swedish daily), Stockholm, Sept. 3,
1994.
“Needs of Women are Missing from
Global Politics of Population Policy,” Boston Sunday
Globe, July 12, 1987.
“Foreign Aid for the Rich” (with
James Boyce), Christian Science Monitor, September
20, 1978.
On-line commentary (available on
http://www.BetsyHartmann.com):
"Wright or Wrong: What's Going On?"
Common Dreams, May 6, 2008.
“The Election That Might Not Happen”
Common Dreams, March 6, 2008.
"War Talk and Climate Change" truthout/Perspective,
November 26, 2007.
Four Invited Contributions to the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Online Roundtable on
Population and Climate Change, Winter 2007-2008.
“Nine Theses on Moving the Peace
Movement Forward,” Foreign Policy in Focus,
www.fpif.org, April 7, 2003.
For Z-net:
“Beyond the
Shopping Cart: Messaging Consumption,” April 11, 2008
“Abortion and the Politics of Prevention,” November 7, 2006.
(Reprinted in Collective Voices, newspaper of
SisterSong, 2:7, 2007.)
“Everyday
Eugenics,” September 22, 2006. (Znet Science)
“Gender, Militarism, and Climate
Change,” April 10, 2006.
“Too Heavy a
Price to Pay: India’s Two-Child Norm Hurts Women, Girls and
the Poor,” January 6, 2006.
“The Testosterone Threat: Where
Sociobiology Meets National Security,” November 21, 2005.
“Narcissus and the Mind/Body
Problem,” December 2004.
“Girlie Men and the Great
Democratic Disconnect,” October 2004.
“Bread, Roses – and Time,” August
2004. (Reproduced in the Utne Reader online, and translated
into German and published in arranca! and
Wochenzeitung WOZ.)
“Conserving Racism: The Greening of Hate
at Home and Abroad,” December 10, 2003.
“End of History: The Sequel,”
April 20, 2003.
“Normalizing Nightmares,” March
13, 2003.
“White Supremacy and the
Anti-Immigrant Movement,” December 23, 2002.
“Population Policy: Will Coercion
Come Back in Vogue?” May 1, 2000.
“A Visit to Los Alamos,” March 5,
2000.
“Cracking Open CRACK,” October
22, 1999.
“Cross-Dressing Malthus,”
September 20, 1999.
For DifferenTakes Issue Paper
Series (Hampshire College):
“Old Roots, New Shoots: Eugenics
of the Everyday,” no. 47, Spring 2007.
“The Testosterone Threat:
Sociobiology, National Security and Population Control,” no.
41, Fall 2006.
“Ten Reasons to Rethink
Overpopulation” (with Amy Oliver), no. 40, Fall 2006.
“Conserving Racism: The Greening
of Hate at Home and Abroad,” no. 27, Winter 2004.
Radio commentary:
“Where Have All the Young Men
Gone?” WFCR News, November 8, 2002.
SELECTED INTERVIEWS
Magazines and Journals:
“The Greening of Hate,” interview
with Betsy Hartmann by Fred Pearce, New Scientist,
February 22, 2003, pp. 44-47.
Wendy Harcourt, “Refuting Security
Demographics: In Dialogue with Betsy Hartmann,”
Development 48(4) (2005).
Television:
Advised and appeared in the BBC Horizon
documentary, “The Human Laboratory,” November 1995.
Appeared in CNN documentary on
international population policy, 1992.
Radio:
Interview with Gloria Minott,
Pacifica Radio WPFW FM, Washington, D.C., on Deadly
Election, August 22, 2008.
Interview with Detroit radio talk show
host, Peter Werbe, on Deadly Election, March 16,
2008.
Interview on Humboldt State
University NPR-affiliate, February 28, 2008.
Interview on “Getting at the Root
Cause: Gender, the Power Relations that Fuel Climate Change,
Militarism and Refugees,” Healing the Earth, CFRU, Guelph,
Ontario, December 19, 2007.
Interview on syndicated show,
“Enduring Choice,” National Radio Project, August 17, 2005.
Interview on Peruvian
Sterilizations, BBC Women’s Hour, June 19, 1998.
Interview by WBAI, New York, on
new edition of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, Spring
1995.
Speech at the EDGE Conference,
January 1995, broadcast on Pacifica Radio.
Interview for National Public
Radio series on population, aired September 1994.
Interview for “The Population
Riddle” series, Canadian Public Radio, aired September 5-8,
1994.
Live panel discussion on the
Cairo population conference, WBUR, Boston, September 1994.
Interview for BBC World Service
feature on land reform, March 1985.
Online:
Interview with Tim Einenkel,
“Great Read: Hartmann” (on Deadly Election), Air
America, October 29, 2008,
http://airamerica.com/blog/2008/oct/29/great-read-hartmann
“Hartmann Interviewed on
Deadly Election,” Znet, March 16, 2008,
http://zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/16887
SELECTED INVITED LECTURES AND
SEMINARS
“Rethinking the Population
Problem: The Terror of False Assumptions,” lecture,
Environment and Community Lecture Series, Humboldt State
University, Arcata, CA, February 28, 2008.
Presentation on the politics of
climate change, Ford Foundation Discussion on Climate
Change, New York, October 1, 2007.
“Why We Should Rethink
Population,” presentation, Committee on Women, Population
and the Environment panel on population issues, U.S. Social
Forum, Atlanta, GA, June 28, 2007.
“Population Control or
Reproductive Justice,” talk to reproductive rights
advocates, CHILTAK, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas,
Mexico, April 9, 2007.
“Babies, Burdens and Threats: The
Current Landscape of Population Control,” lecture, Center
for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS),
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, March 26, 2007.
“Strategic Demography and the
Naturalizing of National Security,” panel presentation,
Interrogating Fear: Bioterror, the Environment and the
Construction of Threats, 20th Annual
Conference, Society for Literature, Science and Art, Dactyl
Foundation, New York, NY, November 11, 2006.
“Population Politics: Old Maps,
New Terrain,” lecture sponsored by the Women’s and Gender
Studies Program, Middlebury College, October 24, 2006.
“Rethinking the Population
Problem,” lecture and dialogue, Bioneers by the Bay Youth
Initiative, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, October
20, 2006.
“Abortion and the Politics of
Prevention,” panel on Hyde and Seek: Towards a New
Abortion Politics, Hampshire College, October 19, 2006.
Participation and presentations
in International Learning Circle on Migration and
Citizenship, sponsored by Inter Pares, CAMMAC, Quebec,
Canada, September 26-29, 2006.
“Population Politics at the
International Women and Health Meeting,” seminar
presentation, International Development, Community and
Environment Program, Clark University, October 27, 2005.
“Who Counts?” symposium
presentation, Who Counts in the Americas? Center for
Women’s InterCultural Leadership, Saint Mary’s College,
Notre Dame, Indiana, September 27, 2005.
“Strategic Scarcity: The
Deployment of Population Fears,” introductory speech to the
plenary on The Politics and Resurgence of Population
Policies, 10th International Women and Health
Meeting, New Delhi, India, September 23, 2005; also two
panel presentations, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” and
“Population, Environment and Security.”
“Are Poor Women Destroying Planet
Earth? An Assessment of the Environmental Security Debate
and its Links to the ‘War on Terror’, lecture sponsored by
the Oberlin College Environmental Studies Program and Luce
Foundation, Oberlin, Ohio, September 30, 2004.
“Gender and Vulnerability to
Environmental Change,” presentation to UNEP/DEWA staff,
Nairobi, Kenya, January 21, 2004.
“Another Look at Choice: Body Politics
at Home and Abroad,” lecture, Women’s Studies Program, Old
Dominion University, Norfolk, VA., November 13, 2003.
“Population, Security and Coercive
Conservation,” presentation to the panel on The New Faces
of Population Control: Coercive Conservation, Security and
Environmental Racism, SisterSong Women of Color
Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights National Conference,
Atlanta, GA., November 15, 2003.
“Political Multi-Tasking,”
presentation to the Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS)
Public Forum on ‘The War with Iraq,’ Hampshire College,
Amherst, MA, March 24, 2003.
“Strategic Scarcity: The Politics
of Population, Environment and Security,” seminar
presentation, Harvard Center for Population and Development
Studies, February 12, 2003.
“Homer-Dixon’s Model: Truths and
their Consequences,” lecture to 2003 Watson International
Scholars of the Environment, Watson Institute for
International Studies, Brown University, January 29, 2003.
“Is Fiction Stranger than Truth,
or Truth Stranger than Fiction?,” panel presentation,
National Writers Union Conference WriteAngles 2002,
Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, December 7, 2003.
“The Strategic Uses of
Reproductive Health,” presentation to Defining Women’s
Health: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Committee on
Degrees in Women’s Studies and the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study, Harvard University, May 4, 2002.
"The Politics of Population
Policy," Center for Public Policy, University of
Massachusetts, November 16, 2001.
"Ghosts of Malthus: Population,
Environment and Reproductive Wrongs," Sarah Lawrence
College, November 2, 2001.
"The End of History Theme Park,"
PAWSS Summer Institute, Amherst College, June 2001.
"Environmental Conflict: Wrong
Turns on the Causal Pathway," Symposium on Environment and
Security, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of
Westminster, London, March 15, 2001.
"Exploring the Links Between
Global Environmental Change and Human Security and
Population," AVISO Policy Briefing Series, Woodrow
Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., January 30, 2001.
"Tropical Tropes and Barren
Slopes: Population, Environment and Security," Feminist
Studies Colloquium and the Institute for Social, Economic
and Ecological Sustainability, University of Minnesota, Nov.
17, 2000.
"The Changing Faces of
Neo-Malthusianism: Implications for Feminist Resistance,"
seminar talk delivered at the McGill Center for Research and
Teaching on Women, Montreal, Quebec, Nov. 9, 1999.
"The New (Old) Faces of
Neo-Malthusianism and the Critical Role of Anthropology,"
Working Group on Anthropology and Population Speaker Series,
Brown University, Providence, RI, Oct. 8, 1999.
Presentation on sterilization,
Panel on Sterilization of Women and Reproductive Rights,
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, June
1, 1999.
"The Politics of Population,"
speech delivered at the World Affairs Seminar: Population in
the 21st Century: How Can We Avoid the Potential Crises?
Cranbrook Schools, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, February 25,
1999.
"Cairo Plus Five: Pros and Cons,"
opening presentation to the conference on Reproductive
Health and Rights in Context: Five Years After the Cairo
Conference on Population and Development, co-organized by
the Society for International Development, the Institute for
Social Studies, and HIVOS, the Hague, Netherlands, February
5, 1999.
"Cairo Plus Five and Malthus Plus
Two Hundred: Population Politics at the Millennium,"
Allegheny College, November 2, 1998.
"Current Faces of
Neo-Malthusianism," presentation to panel on Challenges
Facing the International Women's Movement, International
Association of Feminist Economists Conference, University of
Amsterdam, June 6, 1998.
Invited lectures on "Population
Politics Post-Cairo," at Sir David Owen Population Center,
Cardiff University, Wales, May 21, 1998; Oxford University
Third World First Conference, Oxford, May 2, 1998; Economic
Development Seminar, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
University, March 5, 1998; Department of Anthropology,
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London, February 24, 1998; and World Population Foundation,
Hilversum, Netherlands, January 30, 1998.
Invited lectures on "Population,
Environment and Security" at the Research Seminar in
Regional Security, Nuffield College, Oxford University, May
15, 1998; Institute for Development Studies, Sussex
University, March 4, 1998; Development Studies Institute
Research Seminar, London School of Economics, February 9,
1998; Hazards, Globalization and Sustainability Conference,
Middlesex University, UK, October 11, 1997.
"South Asian Women's Movements
and Population Policies," presentation to International
Conference on South Asia and South Asian Communities,
University of London, October 19, 1997.
"Vertical Reform Or Lateral
Solidarity?," plenary address, panel on National and
International Policies, 8th Women and Health International
Meeting, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, March 17, 1997.
"The Politics of Population
Control and Reproductive Rights," UBINIG Discussion Series
-- Ideas for Social Action, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 8,
1997.
"Reproductive Rights and Wrongs:
The Global Politics of Population Control," Simmons College,
November 25, 1996.
"Reviving the Political
Imagination," plenary address to the conference on Dangerous
Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population,
Immigration and the Environment, Union Theological Seminary,
New York, October 25, 1996.
"The Greening of Hate,"
presentation to the roundtable on Marxism and the Ecological
Crisis, conference on Politics and Languages of Contemporary
Marxism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, December 6,
1996; Political Ecology Conference, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA., May 1996; and the National
Strategy Session on Immigration and the Environment,
Sausalito, CA., March 1996.
Lectures in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, November 6-9, 1995: "Feminist Action for Health,
Sexuality and Reproductive Rights," Hearing on the Beijing
Women's Conference, Parliament of Rio, November 6; Opening
Address to the symposium, "A Pot Pourri of Health: Seven
Experiences," sponsored by REDEH and the Feminist Network on
Health and Reproductive Rights -- Rio Region, November 7;
and "Population and the Environment: Dangerous
Intersections," hosted by IBASE, co-sponsored by FASE and
IBASE, November 9.
"Beijing Decoded: Women's Rights
and the UN Women's Conference," lecture at Clark University,
International Relations Program, Worcester, MA., October 20,
1995.
"The New Population Consensus,"
panel presentation on 'The Double Challenge,' NGO Forum on
Women, Huairou, China, August 31, l995. Also presentation on
population control and health, OXFAM-America panel on
women's health, August 30, l995.
"Population Control and
Reproductive Rights: National and International
Perspectives," Teacher Training, MIDEON Summer Institute on
Population, Gender and Development, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI., May 14-19, l995.
"Population Control and Women's
Rights," Reuter Forum, Columbia University School of
Journalism, New York, April 19, 1995.
"Dangerous Intersections: The
Population Consensus and the Politics of National Security
and Racial 'Purity', plenary address, EDGE Conference on
"California Today Facing the Challenge of the 21st Century:
Environmental Justice, Population and the New Majority of
Color," Los Angeles, January 14, 1995.
Organized and chaired panel on
"Population and the Environment: Rethinking the Consensus,"
at Down to Earth: Practical Applications of Ecological
Economics, Third Biennial Conference of the International
Society for Ecological Economics, San Jose, Costa Rica,
October 24-28, 1994.
"Evaluating the Cairo Process,"
Population and Reproductive Rights: Strategizing for the UN
Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, sponsored
by KULU -- Women and Development, Copenhagen, Denmark, May
27, l994.
"An Analysis of the Politics of
Population with Special Emphasis on the Draft Final Document
to the ICPD," Conference on Multilateral Population
Assistance, Oslo, Norway, May 25, l994.
"The Implications of the New
Population Consensus", panel presentation by the Committee
on Women, Population and the Environment, Fourth United
Nations Prep Com for the ICPD, New York, April 1994.
"Women and Population
Stabilization," Debate with Virginia Abernethy of Carrying
Capacity Network, Public Interest Environmental Law
Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene,
Oregon, March 10-13, l994.
Delivery of Thomas S. Hall
Lecture on "Women, Population and the Environment,", Biology
Department, Washington University in St. Louis, March 7,
l994, and speaking in workshop on "Population and Poverty:
Two perspectives" with Thomas Merrick, senior World Bank
population advisor, in Mary T. Hall Seminar on Population
and Development, United Nations Association, St. Louis,
March 6, 1994.
“The Politics of Women,
Population and the Environment,” lecture delivered at the
International Conference on Reinforcing Reproductive Rights,
Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights, Madras,
India, May 5, 1993.
“Blaming the Environmental Crisis
on Population Growth: A Dangerous Trend,” speech and debate
with Paul Ehrlich, Seventh Annual Stanford Health Policy
Forum, Stanford University, February 20, 1993.
“Population Control in the New
World Order,” plenary address delivered at the Brazilian
Women’s Coalition Day on Population Policies, Women’s Health
and the Environment, UNCED 92 Global Forum, Rio de Janeiro,
June 6, 1992.
“Population Control as an
Ideology,” speech delivered at Global Population Policies
and Women’s Reproductive Autonomy Seminar, Physicians for
Social Responsibility, Helsinki, Finland, June 4, 1992.
“Toward a New Paradigm,”
Background paper and presentation to the Elmwood Institute’s
conference on Toward a Sustainable World Population, Marin,
California, September 14-15, 1991.
“The Population Establishment:
Beyond the Myths,” presentation to the Interpares and
Women’s Health Interaction Workshop on Women Creating
Reproductive Freedom: Challenges and Dilemmas, Ottawa,
Canada, June 8, 1991.
“A Feminist Critique of
Population Control,” invited lecture, Vassar College Women’s
Studies Program, Poughkeepsie, NY, February 21, 1991.
“Contraception and Family
Planning in the Third World,” Jing Lyman Series on
International Perspectives on Maternal and Child Health,
Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford
University, November 14, 1990.
“Population Policies and
Programs: A Feminist Assessment,” plenary address, Sixth
International Women and Health Meeting, Manila, Philippines,
November 5, 1990.
“The Impact of Foreign Assistance at the
Village Level”, presentation to the Annual Conference of the
Bangladesh International Action Group, Paris, April 1983.
“The Impact of Foreign Aid,”
presentation to the Forum sponsored by the Association of
Development Agencies in Bangladesh, Dhaka, January 1982.
“The Politics of Foreign Aid in
Bangladesh,” presentation to the International Conference
on the Transfer of Technology, Gonoshastra Kendra, Savar,
Bangladesh, January 1982.
“Bangladesh: Hunger in a Fertile
Land”. Slide show and lecture presented at Critical Studies
Forum, University of North Carolina, April 1980. Also
presented at Morningside College, March 1979; Yale
University, November 1978; Colgate University, November
1978; San Francisco State College, October 1978; The
Population Council, New York, December 1976.
“Impact of Development Assistance in
Bangladesh”, presentation to Workshop on Foreign Aid,
Conference on Self-Reliant Development sponsored by
OXFAM-America, Putney, Vermont, August 1978.
“Bangladesh: Aid to the Needy?”.
Symposium with Congressional staffers and U.S. Agency for
International Development representatives, Center for
International Policy, Washington, D.C., June 1978.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
AND ACTIVITIES
Projects,
Editorial Work and Consultancies:
(Ongoing)
Co-editor and writer for the DifferenTakes issue
paper series produced by the Population and Development
Program, Hampshire College. Bound compilations include
Reviving Reproductive Safety (Fall 2005) and Babies,
Burdens and Threats: The Changing Faces of Population
Control (Winter 2007).
(2002-present) Archival co-editor, Visual Imagery Project,
Rethink and Stop the Blame: Population Imagery from 1933
to the Present, Flash computer presentation by Binta
Jeffers, Committee on Women, Population and the Environment
with the Population and Development Program, forthcoming
2008.
(2005-6)
Project director and co-editor, Rethinking the Link: A
Critical Review of Population-Environment Programs,
report by James Oldham, a joint publication of the
Population and Development Program and the Political Economy
Research Institute, UMass, February 2006
(2004) Principal Investigator/Consultant
(with Joni Seager), United Nations Environment Program (UNEP),
Department of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA), Nairobi,
Kenya, “Assessment of the Current State of Gender
Mainstreaming in the Operations, Mission and Work of DEWA,”
December 2003-March 2004.
(2004- present) Project Director and
member of the editorial board, Population in Perspective:
A Curriculum Resource, produced by the Population and
Development Program with the Committee on Women, Population
and the Environment.
(2003) Co-editor, Militarized Zones:
Gender, Race, Immigration and the Environment, Special
Issue of Political Environments (No. 10), a joint
publication of the American Friends Service Committee,
Committee on Women, Population and the Environment (CWPE),
and the Hampshire College Population and Development
Program, November.
(1994-2002) Co-editor, Political
Environments, journal/newsletter of the Committee on
Women, Population and the Environment.
Advisory Committees and Boards
Present:
Co-convener, Five College
Reproductive Politics Group
Advisory Committee, Committee on
Women, Population and the Environment
Global Migrations Committee,
School of Social Science, Hampshire College
Associate, Global Environmental
Change and Human Security Project
Co-Convener, Quinacrine Alert
Network
Previous:
Founding Member, Co-coordinator
and Steering Committee member, Committee on Women,
Population and the Environment, 1991-2005.
Scientific Steering Committee,
Global Environmental Change and Human Security Project of
the International Human Dimensions Program, 1999-2005.
Steering Committee, Five College
Women’s Studies Research Center, 2004-2006.
Steering Committee, Five College
Peace and World Security Studies Program.
International Advisory Committee,
Women’s Global Network on Reproductive Rights, 1997-2004.
International Advisory Committee, 10th
International Women and Health Conference (New Delhi,
India), 2005.
Secretary, Board of Trustees, Verité,
Verification in Trade and Export, 1999-2002.
Referee for:
Development and Change; Journal of
Global Environmental Politics; Population and
Development Review; International Studies Quarterly,
Journal of Development Studies; Medical
Anthropology Quarterly; Our Bodies, Ourselves; United
Nations Environment Program, American Philosophical Society,
Vanderbilt University Press,
Rutgers University Press,
Scarecrow Press, Palgrave Macmillan Press.