Abstract
In Denmark, as in many other countries, declining fertility rates have stimulated debates about ‘underpopulation’ as a threat to the nation’s future sustainability. At the same time, climate change has initiated debates about ‘overpopulation’ and ‘overconsumption’ as a problem for sustaining the planet. While both debates can be understood in terms of demographic anxieties placing sustainable reproductive futures’ central, they exhibit different ideas of what ‘sustainable’ entails. In this article, we analyze how sustainable reproduction is negotiated within agendas of respectively a national fertility crisis and the climate crisis. We do so by mapping the media debates in Denmark in the period between 2010 and 2022. The aim of the article is to contribute to an understanding of the repro-paradox which simultaneously calls upon young Danes to reproduce more and less.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | BioSocieties |
ISSN | 1745-8552 |
DOI | |
Status | Accepteret/In press - 2024 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:Open access funding provided by Copenhagen University. Funding was provided by Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond (Grant No. #1028-00143B).
Funding Information:
This work was conducted as part of the research project Responsible Reproductive Citizenship in Denmark in the 21st Century funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, Grant #1028-00143B.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.