Table of Contents
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
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- 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 IndexAbout 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.
