IFCO 2595 - Demography and Politics of Global Population (20th–21st centuries)

The purpose of this course is to present global population issues at the world scale but from the standpoint, and through the comparison, of three world regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and East Asia. The European and North and South-American continents will be apprehended through the lenses of the new questions which are raised by those three regional cases. This course, organized around 6 issues, will provide a general insight on the interaction between demography on the one hand, national and international policies on the other hand. It will explain how to question social, health, labor, environmental, gender issues, but also international relations and balance of power, from the standpoint of population dynamics.

Christoph CONRAD,Paul-André ROSENTAL,Fabrice CAHEN,Giacomo CANEPA

Cours magistral seul

English

One reading (article format) will be required for each session of the course.

Any form of interest in interdisciplinary thinking, since the course will relate (geo)political, historical, economic, anthropological considerations. No statistical background is required, only a lack of allergy to the use of numbers in reasoning.

Spring 2020-2021

A quiz at mid-semester / A paper on one issue relating to the course

The course will start with a collective discussion of the reading of the week. Comments by the professors will follow. The class will use visiodiffusion between Sciences Po and the University of Geneva (with Pr Conrad).