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An Introduction to Population Geographies
Lives Across Space
Taschenbuch von Holly R. Barcus (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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An Introduction to Population Geographies provides a foundation to the incredibly diverse, topical and interesting field of twenty-first-century population geography. It establishes the substantive concerns of the subdiscipline, acknowledges the sheer diversity of its approaches, key concepts and theories and engages with the resulting major areas of academic debate that stem from this richness.

Written in an accessible style and assuming little prior knowledge of topics covered, yet drawing on a wide range of diverse academic literature, the book's particular originality comes from its extended definition of population geography that locates it firmly within the multiple geographies of the life course. Consequently, issues such as childhood and adulthood, family dynamics, ageing, everyday mobilities, morbidity and differential ability assume a prominent place alongside the classic population geography triumvirate of births, migrations and deaths. This broader framing of the field allows the book to address more holistically aspects of lives across space often provided little attention in current textbooks. Particular note is given to how these lives are shaped though hybrid social, biological and individual arenas of differential life course experience. By engaging with traditional quantitative perspectives and newer qualitative insights, the authors engage students from the quantitative macro scale of population to the micro individual scale.

Aimed at higher-level undergraduate and graduate students, this introductory text provides a well-developed pedagogy, including case studies that illustrate theory, concepts and issues.
An Introduction to Population Geographies provides a foundation to the incredibly diverse, topical and interesting field of twenty-first-century population geography. It establishes the substantive concerns of the subdiscipline, acknowledges the sheer diversity of its approaches, key concepts and theories and engages with the resulting major areas of academic debate that stem from this richness.

Written in an accessible style and assuming little prior knowledge of topics covered, yet drawing on a wide range of diverse academic literature, the book's particular originality comes from its extended definition of population geography that locates it firmly within the multiple geographies of the life course. Consequently, issues such as childhood and adulthood, family dynamics, ageing, everyday mobilities, morbidity and differential ability assume a prominent place alongside the classic population geography triumvirate of births, migrations and deaths. This broader framing of the field allows the book to address more holistically aspects of lives across space often provided little attention in current textbooks. Particular note is given to how these lives are shaped though hybrid social, biological and individual arenas of differential life course experience. By engaging with traditional quantitative perspectives and newer qualitative insights, the authors engage students from the quantitative macro scale of population to the micro individual scale.

Aimed at higher-level undergraduate and graduate students, this introductory text provides a well-developed pedagogy, including case studies that illustrate theory, concepts and issues.
Über den Autor

Holly R. Barcus is a Professor and Chair in Geography at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

Keith Halfacree is a Reader in Human Geography at Swansea University, Swansea, UK.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Boxes

Preface

Chapter 1: Viewing Populations Spatially: Population Geography as Lives Across Space

1.1 Introduction: Lives Across Space

1.2 Of Populations and Population Geography

1.3 A Short History of Population Geography

1.4 Towards Relational Population Geographies

1.5 Lives Across Space

Chapter 2: Population Geographies of the Life Course

    1. Introduction
    2. Lives Individual and Common
    3. Arenas of Differential Life Course Experience
    4. Conclusion: Representing Lives Across Space

    Chapter 3: Global Spatial Distributions of Population

    3.1 Introduction: Snapshots of People in the World

    3.2 The Populated World: a Global Demographic Perspective

    3.3 The Populated World: Urban, Intra-Urban, Rural Spaces

    3.4 Conclusion: Dynamism of Lives Across Space

    Chapter 4: Fertility and Births

    4.1 Introduction: Production of Children

    4.2 Modelling Geographies of Fertility

    4.3 Global Fertility Patterns

    4.4 The "Value" of a Child

    4.5 Managing Timing and Spacing of Births

    4.6 State Policies and Fertility

    4.7 "New" Fertilities

    4.8 Conclusion: Fertility's Multiple Entanglements

    Chapter 5: Placing Human Migration

    5.1 Introduction: Defining Migration

    5.2 The Era of Mobilities?

    5.3 Migration as Natural Expression

    5.4 Migration as Societal Expression

    5.5 Migration as Individual Expression

    5.6 Migration as Life Course Expression

    5.7 Conclusion: Broadening Understanding of Human Migration

    Chapter 6: From Everyday to Residential Mobilities

    6.1 Introduction: Mobilities to Migrations

    6.2 Everyday Mobilities

    6.3 Residential Mobility

    6.4 Conclusion

    Chapter 7: Employment Migrations

    7.1 Introduction: Beyond Commuting

    7.2 Student Migrations

    7.3 General Employment Migrations

    7.4 Specialist Employment Migrations

    7.5 Employment Migrations as Family and Community Practices

    7.6 Conclusion

    Chapter 8: Lifestyle Migrations
    8.1 Introduction: Migration for the Project of the Self

    8.2 The Lure of the City

    8.3 The Lure of the Country

    8.4 Lifestyle Retirement Migrations

    8.5 Conclusion: Relational Lifestyle Migrations

    Chapter 9: Forced Migrations

    9.1 Introduction: the Importance of Labels

    9.2 Recognizing Forced Migration and Mobilities

    9.3 Forced Mobilities

    9.4 Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Asylum-Seekers

    9.5 Conclusion: looking beyond victimhood

    Chapter 10: Mortality and Ageing

    10.1 Introduction: the Ageing Body and the End of a Life Course

    10.2 Elderly Lives

    10.3 Mortality: Measurement and Global Trends and Patterns

    10.4 Modeling Mortality Geographies

    10.5 Differentiating Mortality: Causes of Death

    10.6 Conclusion: Mortality, Resources and Access in an Ageing World

    Chapter 11: 21st Century Lives Across Space

    11.1. 21st Century Perspectives

    11.2 21st Century Challenges

    11.3 21st Century Populations

    11.4 Conclusion: 21st Century Population Geography

    Bibliography

    Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780415569958
ISBN-10: 0415569958
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Barcus, Holly R.
Halfacree, Keith
Hersteller: Routledge
Maße: 246 x 189 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Holly R. Barcus (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2017
Gewicht: 0,797 kg
Artikel-ID: 121418175
Über den Autor

Holly R. Barcus is a Professor and Chair in Geography at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

Keith Halfacree is a Reader in Human Geography at Swansea University, Swansea, UK.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Boxes

Preface

Chapter 1: Viewing Populations Spatially: Population Geography as Lives Across Space

1.1 Introduction: Lives Across Space

1.2 Of Populations and Population Geography

1.3 A Short History of Population Geography

1.4 Towards Relational Population Geographies

1.5 Lives Across Space

Chapter 2: Population Geographies of the Life Course

    1. Introduction
    2. Lives Individual and Common
    3. Arenas of Differential Life Course Experience
    4. Conclusion: Representing Lives Across Space

    Chapter 3: Global Spatial Distributions of Population

    3.1 Introduction: Snapshots of People in the World

    3.2 The Populated World: a Global Demographic Perspective

    3.3 The Populated World: Urban, Intra-Urban, Rural Spaces

    3.4 Conclusion: Dynamism of Lives Across Space

    Chapter 4: Fertility and Births

    4.1 Introduction: Production of Children

    4.2 Modelling Geographies of Fertility

    4.3 Global Fertility Patterns

    4.4 The "Value" of a Child

    4.5 Managing Timing and Spacing of Births

    4.6 State Policies and Fertility

    4.7 "New" Fertilities

    4.8 Conclusion: Fertility's Multiple Entanglements

    Chapter 5: Placing Human Migration

    5.1 Introduction: Defining Migration

    5.2 The Era of Mobilities?

    5.3 Migration as Natural Expression

    5.4 Migration as Societal Expression

    5.5 Migration as Individual Expression

    5.6 Migration as Life Course Expression

    5.7 Conclusion: Broadening Understanding of Human Migration

    Chapter 6: From Everyday to Residential Mobilities

    6.1 Introduction: Mobilities to Migrations

    6.2 Everyday Mobilities

    6.3 Residential Mobility

    6.4 Conclusion

    Chapter 7: Employment Migrations

    7.1 Introduction: Beyond Commuting

    7.2 Student Migrations

    7.3 General Employment Migrations

    7.4 Specialist Employment Migrations

    7.5 Employment Migrations as Family and Community Practices

    7.6 Conclusion

    Chapter 8: Lifestyle Migrations
    8.1 Introduction: Migration for the Project of the Self

    8.2 The Lure of the City

    8.3 The Lure of the Country

    8.4 Lifestyle Retirement Migrations

    8.5 Conclusion: Relational Lifestyle Migrations

    Chapter 9: Forced Migrations

    9.1 Introduction: the Importance of Labels

    9.2 Recognizing Forced Migration and Mobilities

    9.3 Forced Mobilities

    9.4 Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Asylum-Seekers

    9.5 Conclusion: looking beyond victimhood

    Chapter 10: Mortality and Ageing

    10.1 Introduction: the Ageing Body and the End of a Life Course

    10.2 Elderly Lives

    10.3 Mortality: Measurement and Global Trends and Patterns

    10.4 Modeling Mortality Geographies

    10.5 Differentiating Mortality: Causes of Death

    10.6 Conclusion: Mortality, Resources and Access in an Ageing World

    Chapter 11: 21st Century Lives Across Space

    11.1. 21st Century Perspectives

    11.2 21st Century Challenges

    11.3 21st Century Populations

    11.4 Conclusion: 21st Century Population Geography

    Bibliography

    Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780415569958
ISBN-10: 0415569958
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Barcus, Holly R.
Halfacree, Keith
Hersteller: Routledge
Maße: 246 x 189 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Holly R. Barcus (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2017
Gewicht: 0,797 kg
Artikel-ID: 121418175
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