Щрихи към критическа социология на „демографската криза“
Towards a Critical Sociology of the “Demographic Crisis”

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the “demographic crisis” as a field of knowledge, where actors with heterogenous knowledge resources operationalize the government of labour power. One of the main assumptions here is that the delineation of low economic productivity as an effect of demographic collapses, catastrophes and crises undergoes a process of translation where different political strategies and tactics construct privileged and subordinate groups of labour power and in accordance to their “natural,” bodily potentials. Furthermore, the semantic instrument “in the conditions of a crisis” produces crisis-objects, which as such are subjected to a knowing process that aims to calculate and direct their behaviour in order to achieve demographic balance though increased labour productivity (not necessarily waged one). The analysis shows the ways in which the “elderly” are turned into a privileged object of demographic governing and how the governing of the labour power of other crisis-objects (e.g. immigrants) is subordinated to the meta-frame of “population aging”.

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