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Jurnal Sosiologi Dialektika
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ISSN : 18580890     EISSN : 27224325     DOI : 10.20473/jsd.v15i1.2020.1-8
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Jurnal Sosiologi Dialektika (JSD) is open access, peer-reviewed and scientific journal published by Universitas Airlangga. The objective of Jurnal Sosiologi Dialektika (JSD) is to publish original research and review articles which advance the theoretical understanding of, promote and report empirical research about the widest range of sociological topics including gender, social development, family and relationship, democracy, conflict, children welfare, social movement, urban and rural society. The journal encourages, and welcomes, submission of papers which report findings using both quantitative and qualitative research methods; articles challenging conventional concepts and proposing new conceptual approaches; and accounts of methodological innovation and the research process.
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Biopower and eugenics practice through fertility control in low-income families Noor Alya Desianty Anthony
Jurnal Sosiologi Dialektika Vol. 21 No. 1 (2026): Jurnal Sosiologi Dialektika
Publisher : Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Airlangga

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Abstract

One policy plan in West Java aims to limit the reproductive agency of poor families that are deemed unable to support their children’s needs by forcing men to undergo a vasectomy to access social assistance. This research aims to examine how neoliberal anti-poverty policies are reflected in contemporary forms of biopower and eugenics practice of fertility control in low-income families. Through qualitative methods with framework analysis using the problem analysis tool “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” by Bacchi, this research argues that neoliberal approach to poverty has justified the state’s attempt to domesticate structural poverty issues. This idea not only opposed the notion that structural factors had caused poverty but also normalized familialism, thereby exempting the state from its responsibilities while burdening families with additional duties. These efforts, along with the practice of gender governance from the central government, as reflected in the Maternal and Child Welfare law, will potentially exacerbate the patriarchal culture and women’s subordination within the gendered division of labor. This research concludes that conducting targeted fertility control as a poverty weapon will neither address the root of poverty nor the gender inequality problems. Instead, this approach will further marginalize low-income families in West Java.