[Cohort39] Spring 298?

Sun Feb 10 21:10:22 PST 2019

Tthanks, Lala. It looks like there is an e-book of this one available, too,
so let's indeed switch.
warmly,
Jenna

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
Chair and Professor of Demography
Professor of Sociology
University of California Berkeley
http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/jennifer-johnson-hanks

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:06 PM Lala Rukh Khan <lalarukh_khan at berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> Dear Jenna,
>
> Thanks for meeting us yesterday! I am writing to you because I just
> (foolishly) realized that the readings on the census are in Cohn's other
> book "An Anthropologist among the historians and other essays". Do you
> think it makes sense to update the list to that book instead of
> "Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge"? Both might be relevant, though.
>
> Apologies for the confusion.
>
> Thanks and best wishes,
>
> Lala Rukh.
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:55 PM Jennifer JOHNSON-HANKS <
> johnsonhanks at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Payal, for the smart question—no, let’s just talk the first time.
>> Jenna
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jan 30, 2019, at 11:04 AM, Payal Hathi <phathi at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jenna,
>>
>> Are there specific readings from this list that we should plan to read
>> before our first meeting on the 7th?  Or will we talk through how to
>> organize readings that day?
>>
>> Thanks and see you soon,
>> Payal
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 8:57 PM Jennifer JOHNSON-HANKS <
>> johnsonhanks at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Excellent, Elizabeth!
>>> Here are a couple of other things I thought of....
>>> Scott, David. 1995. “Colonial Governmentality.” *Social Text*, no. 43:
>>> 191–220.
>>> Szreter, Simon, Hania Sholkamy, and A. Dharmalingam. 2004. *Categories
>>> and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography*.
>>> OUP Oxford.
>>> Stoler, Ann Laura. 1995. *Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s
>>> History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things*. Duke University
>>> Press.
>>>
>>> And one I just found mucking around online:
>>> RENWICK, C. (2016). EUGENICS, POPULATION RESEARCH, AND SOCIAL MOBILITY
>>> STUDIES IN EARLY AND MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN. The Historical
>>> Journal, 59(3), 845-867.
>>>
>>> So much fun ahead!
>>> Jenna
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
>>> Chair and Professor of Demography
>>> Professor of Sociology
>>> University of California Berkeley
>>> http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/jennifer-johnson-hanks
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 1:44 PM Elizabeth Breen <
>>> elizabeth_breen at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Jenna,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the long delay in answering this email! I think the time you
>>>> mentioned (Thursday afternoons starting 2/7) works well for most of us. We
>>>> started a list of readings that might be applicable:
>>>>
>>>> Ordover, Nancy. *American eugenics: Race, queer anatomy, and the
>>>> science of nationalism*. U of Minnesota Press, 2003. (Book)
>>>>
>>>> Bashford, Alison, and Philippa Levine, eds. *The Oxford handbook of
>>>> the history of eugenics*. OUP USA, 2010. (Book)
>>>>
>>>> Greenhalgh, Susan. "The social construction of population science: An
>>>> intellectual, institutional, and political history of twentieth-century
>>>> demography." *Comparative studies in society and history* 38, no. 1
>>>> (1996): 26-66.
>>>>
>>>> These next two came from the Alternative Reading List for Demography:
>>>> <https://thealternativereadinglistproject.wordpress.com/demography/>
>>>> Basu, K.M., (1997) ‘The ‘politicization’ of fertility to achieve non
>>>> demographic objectives’, PS 5, 1, pp. 5-18
>>>>
>>>> Prewitt, K. (2013) ‘What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed
>>>> Efforts to Classify Americans’ Princeton University Press
>>>>
>>>> Looking forward to meeting with you next week!
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Elizabeth
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:34 PM Jennifer JOHNSON-HANKS <
>>>> johnsonhanks at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>> Welcome back to the semester! Sorry to be slow in coordinating. We
>>>>> can't do the Wed time suggested because of Brown Bag, so it'll have to be
>>>>> Thurs 2:30-4:30. I can do that many weeks, and in any case we won't meet
>>>>> weekly. This isn't a formal class, just a reading and discussion group. I
>>>>> have conflicts next week and the week after at that time (24th and 31st).
>>>>> Shall we start at 2:30 pm on Thurs Feb 7th in my office? And before then
>>>>> circulate ideas for readings?
>>>>>
>>>>> The question arose of whether fertility (220) will be offered soon. I
>>>>> did it last year, and we normally aim for every third year, so under the
>>>>> normal flow of things I would teach it again in 2020-21.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also on the table is the question of course control numbers--for that
>>>>> I cc here Monique, who has the power of numbers.
>>>>>
>>>>> With best regards,
>>>>> Jenna
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
>>>>> Chair and Professor of Demography
>>>>> Professor of Sociology
>>>>> University of California Berkeley
>>>>> http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/jennifer-johnson-hanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:14 PM Elizabeth Breen <
>>>>> elizabeth_breen at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Jenna,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, we are excited to do this with you! We came up with two
>>>>>> potential times:
>>>>>> 11am-1pm Wednesday
>>>>>> 2:30pm-4:30pm Thursday
>>>>>> Would either of those work for you?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As to the content, I think most of us are interested in reading and
>>>>>> writing about colonialism/globalization/eugenics, as you said. There is
>>>>>> interest in feminist demography and international perspectives on
>>>>>> demography, as well. (If I missed something, fellow students, please speak
>>>>>> up.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for doing this with us! Is there other information we can send
>>>>>> you?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>> Elizabeth
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 4:36 PM Jennifer JOHNSON-HANKS <
>>>>>> johnsonhanks at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>> Happy new year! For those of you doing 298 in the spring, let's set
>>>>>>> a time? Depending on how many units you want/need, maybe we meet 2 hours
>>>>>>> every other week (or more or less). Schedules? I think that most of you
>>>>>>> want to work on something about 19th Century
>>>>>>> Demography/Colonialism/Eugenics, but Vanessa wants a different topic,
>>>>>>> right? Just let me know your plans and wishes when you get a chance. Thanks.
>>>>>>> Jenna
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
>>>>>>> Chair and Professor of Demography
>>>>>>> Professor of Sociology
>>>>>>> University of California Berkeley
>>>>>>> http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/jennifer-johnson-hanks
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