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    Taming demography actors, dynamics, and events in the transition in population policies of Turkey from pronatalism to antinatalism between 1950 and 1965
    (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2023., 2023) Furtuna, Serdar.; Altuğ, Seda.; Destremau, Blandine.
    This dissertation analyzes the transition of Third World countries' population policies from pronatalism to antinatalism in the 1950s and 1960s, with a special focus on the Turkish case. The emergence of the idea of population control as part of global hegemonic interest, its dissemination and adaptation by the national government, and its internalization by women and the family are explored through three spheres: global, national, and individual. The aim of this dissertation, therefore, is to explore the key motivations, articulations, and reinforcements of the global, national, and individual forces that intervene in antinatalist politics, and to highlight the contradictions, resistances, and negotiations in between. The claim of this dissertation, based on a detailed analysis of primary and secondary sources, is that population control was not a unilateral hegemonic project, but an implicit and fragile intersection of these three spheres, whose only interest was to improve their "quality" by maximizing their own capabilities and functionings. In this sense, this dissertation is the story of the ideology of population control that became an instrument for improving the quality of life in the 1950s and 1960s.