Governing population, public health, and malaria in the early Turkish republic |
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Authors: | Kyle T Evered Emine Ö Evered |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Geography, Geography Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117, USA;bDepartment of History, Morrill Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1036, USA |
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Abstract: | In the early Turkish republic of the 1920s, population was a central question of concern for the leadership of the Kemalist state. This article focuses on how a demographic discourse concerning population – in terms both numerical and medical – provided a basis for emerging programs in public health, confronting the very real threats posed by disease. Employing the example of the nascent republic’s anti-malarial campaigns, this study thus examines the discursive, cartographic, and legislative measures employed in combating this widespread disease in the wider contexts of nation-building. In doing so, it traces one vital trajectory of the development of modern governmentality (i.e., that of public health) in the case of Turkey during the 1920s and 1930s, prior to the wartime slowing of state investments (due to national defense priorities), the post-World War II infusions of foreign aid and the incorporation of DDT in confronting malaria. |
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Keywords: | Governmentality Malaria Nation-building Population Public health Turkey |
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