Books By The (Jacobs University, Germany) Population Knowledge Network - Author

The Population Knowledge Network was established in 2011 with support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). Its goal is to study the history of demography in the twentieth century through a double lens: the lens of the history of knowledge and science together with the lens of social and political history. One of the network's main interests lies in the production, transfer, and application of demographic knowledge across geographic, cultural, social, and time differences, especially with regard to the interdependence between demography and politics. Our interest is based on the assumption that knowledge is produced in specific cultural and social contexts and that knowledge and scholars contribute to defining, and thus creating, social problems. Studying the history of demography, an academic discipline characterized by its close proximity to politics, promises valuable insights into this phenomenon. Second, the history of demography, which has been written only in part so