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Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
C-4 FAM03 History of Historical Demography Further Explored
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
Organizer: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux Discussants: Ioan Bolovan, Bruce Fetter, Andrejs Plakans, Sølvi Sogner
Béatrice Craig : Canadian Historical Demography - A Tale of Two Solitudes
Canadian demography emerged as a scholarly field after the Second World War. Differences in the types of sources available as well as different disciplinary origins of demographers translated into two significantly different demographic traditions which have seldom spoken to each other, and which are almost exclusively concerned with their geographic ... (Show more)
Canadian demography emerged as a scholarly field after the Second World War. Differences in the types of sources available as well as different disciplinary origins of demographers translated into two significantly different demographic traditions which have seldom spoken to each other, and which are almost exclusively concerned with their geographic area and linguistic group. (Show less)

Alexander Pinwinkler : "Population History"/"Historical Demography" in Germany, c. 1950-1980
German historical population research differed crucially from its Western European counterpart, as far as Historical Demography had been established in Germany as a historiographical subdiscipline in the 1970s. In contrary to English and French “Historical Demography”/Histoire démographique”, which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, family reconstitution in Germany can be ... (Show more)
German historical population research differed crucially from its Western European counterpart, as far as Historical Demography had been established in Germany as a historiographical subdiscipline in the 1970s. In contrary to English and French “Historical Demography”/Histoire démographique”, which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, family reconstitution in Germany can be already traced in practices of “Biology of Population” (Bevölkerungsbiologie): In the 1920s and 1930s, “Biology of Population” shaped essentially the racist scientific construction of the German national community (Volksgemeinschaft).

The proposed paper concentrates on the period between the collapse of the Third Reich and the break through of the Historical Social Science (Historische Sozialwissenschaft) in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s. I suggest that this period assigned a decisive transformation process, in which Western German historians strived for their reintegration in Western European and North American historiographical discourse. Closely linked to this overall epistemic change, historiographical population research in West Germany sought to gain new ground: While the established “Population History” stood for the macroanalytical and to some extent “organic” traditions of “German Sociology”, “demography” in general and particularly “Historical Demography” seemingly refered to the liberal-statistical “Western” conceptualization of social structure.

In the early Federal Republic, however, historical population research was thoroughly burdened by its völkisch legacy. I argue that this was one of the main reasons for its low acceptance in historiographical discourse. Even though, the 1950s and 1960s cannot be viewed as “blind spots” in the development of historical population research in Germany: On the contrary, historians such as Erich Keyser and especially Wolfgang Köllmann debated controversially, how “Population History” should change its methodological approaches. Not least, they sought to resume and partly to intensify scientific contacts to their Western European collegues. By accentuating the latter, I go clearly beyond the present historical research on German “Population History”: The key question linked up with it is, to which degree transnational cooperations of German, English, and French historians remodeled “Population History” and even created new ground for “Historical Demography” within German Historical Social Science. (Show less)

Paulo Teodoro de Matos, Maria Norberta Amorim : Historical Demography in Portugal, 1960-2010: An Acount of the Historiography and Major Challenges
This paper aims to present a coherent synthesis of the development of Historical demography in Portugal during the last 50 years. We will examine the first steps of this discipline in Portugal and identify its major influences in the academic panorama. In a second stage this paper will considerate the ... (Show more)
This paper aims to present a coherent synthesis of the development of Historical demography in Portugal during the last 50 years. We will examine the first steps of this discipline in Portugal and identify its major influences in the academic panorama. In a second stage this paper will considerate the spread and consolidation of the Historical Demography regarding: i) the new tendencies and the support of social history studies, ii) methodological developments related to the specificities of the Portuguese sources, iii) the principal research lines, protagonists and tendencies of Historical Demography.
The empirical data of this paper comes from an exhaustive analysis of the bibliography related to Historical Demography and Family History studies, institutional framework (e.g. course programs, organization of seminars, associations, research centres) and interviews with some of the major players in this research area. (Show less)



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