An introduction to population geographies : lives across space /
Holly R. Barcus and Keith Halfacree ; Ashley Nepp, Cartographic editor.
- xii, 397 pages : illustrations, maps.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Viewing populations spatially: population geography as lives across space -- Population geographies of the life course -- Global spatial distributions of population -- Fertility and births -- Placing human migration -- From everyday to residential mobilities -- Employment migrations -- Lifestyle migrations -- Forced migrations -- Ageing and mortality -- Twenty-first-century lives across space.
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 sub-discipline, 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 priro knowledge of topics covered, yet drawing on a wide range of diverse academic literature, the book's particlular 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 hilistically 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 areneas of diffential 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.