An Introduction to Population Geographies

Lives Across Space

Holly R. Barcus, Keith Halfacree

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781135145996
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Human Geography
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of boxes
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Viewing populations spatially: Population Geography as lives across space
• Chapter 2 Population Geographies of the life course
• Chapter 3 Global spatial distributions of population
• Chapter 4 Fertility and births
• Chapter 5 Placing human migration
• Chapter 6 From everyday to residential mobilities
• Chapter Employment migrations
• Chapter 8 Lifestyle migrations
• Chapter 9 Forced migrations
• Chapter 10 Ageing and mortality
• Chapter 11 Twenty-first-century lives across space
• Bibliography
• Index