The Disunity of Consensus: International Population Policy Coordination as Socio-Technical Practice.  

Oleh:

Halfon, Saul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Studies of Science vol. 36 no. 5 (Oct. 2006), page 783.
Topik: consensus; demographic surveys; epistemic community; international politics; population policy; socio-technical network; women’s empowerment
Fulltext: 783.pdf (195.43KB)

Isi artikel

Using the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development as a case study, this paper challenges standard approaches to understanding political consensus. Neither cognitive, social, nor strategic, consensus can be rethought as a metaphor for ’getting along’ within a structured disunity. Structure derives from commitment to a socio-technical network, while disunity arises from the interpretive flexibility and varied practices contained within this network. The Cairo Consensus is then explored through a central site of production: international demographic surveys. These surveys help to build a stable network, and thus facilitate consensus, by helping to establish epistemic communities, producing standard representations of Third World fertility, and standardizing political discourses of legitimacy and accountability.

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