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An Introduction to Contemporary Population Geographies
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Table of Contents

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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

    • Introduction
    • Lives Individual and Common
    • Arenas of Differential Life Course Experience
    • 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

    About the Author

    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.

    Reviews

    "Open, lively, and path-breaking - Barcus and Halfacree re-centre our understandings of population geographies through their life course framing and inspire and provoke in equal measure: brilliant!"Professor Adrian J. Bailey, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. "At the core of this textbook is the argument that population geography should center on human beings and the myriad ways human beings live their lives across space. It is a more intimate approach to demography than is found in most other textbooks. The authors introduce students to life course theory and incorporate stories from around the globe in a way that humanizes the field and widens its scope."John Cromartie, Geographer at Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, USA.

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