Aprajita Sarcar

TL;DR: In this article, the authors track the evolution of the family planning programs in India and China and the conceptual linkages between the two, and conclude that the small family norm was operationalised in various differing ways in both states and yet the commonalities that arose were the following: the declining sex ratio in both countries as an immediate consequence of the enforcement of the small-family norm.

TL;DR: Agarwala as mentioned in this paper showed how demographic transition theory was tested in his survey of fertility in a peri-urban area in Delhi and found an alternate reading of the Indian population control program: one that did not rest on sterilizations as the dominant mode of achieving the small family norm.

TL;DR: Building the Population Bomb by Emily Klancher Merchant analyzes the rise of demography in the United States at two levels: first, it sheds light on the internal political developments that informed the discipline from the 1930s to the 1970s; and second, somewhat subterranean level, it analyzes sentiments that drove the international family planning movement in that period as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the emotional topography of the city, with an eye on the aspirations of the refugee, and the way the refugee talks back and creates her own emotional landscape.