Population and demography Books

Book SynopsisThe Who, What, and Where of America is designed to provide a sampling of key demographic information. It covers the United States, every state, each metropolitan statistical area, and all the counties and cities with a population of 20,000 or more. Who: Age, Race and Ethnicity, and Household StructureWhat: Education, Employment, and IncomeWhere: Migration, Housing, and TransportationEach part is preceded by highlights and ranking tables that show how areas diverge from the national norm. These research aids are invaluable for understanding data from the ACS and for highlighting what it tells us about who we are, what we do, and where we live.Each topic is divided into four tables revealing the results of the data collected from different types of geographic areas in the United States, generally with populations greater than 20,000. Table A. States Table B. Counties Table C. Metropolitan Areas Table D. Cities In this edition, you will find social and economic estimates on the ways American communities are changing with regard to the following: Age and race Health care coverage Marital history Education attainment Income and occupation Commute time to work Employment status Home values and monthly costs Veteran status Size of home or rental unit This title is the latest in the County and City Extra Series of publications from Bernan Press. Other titles include County and City Extra, County and City Extra: Special Decennial Census Edition, and Places, Towns, and Townships.

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Book SynopsisIn the fall of 2022, demographers at the United Nations announced that the global human population had surpassed 8 billion people. Headline after headline repeated what most of us already believed: our numbers were spiraling out of control, threatening the health of our planet and everything on it.Other headlines told a different story—one about looming and long-lasting labor shortages. How could it be that our population is propagating at an alarming pace if our labor force is contracting? Demographic Deception addresses this question. It explains how an examination of data like fertility rates and median age reveals we’re not at risk of overpopulation; rather, it’s underpopulation we should be worrying about.Aging and declining populations will herald massive changes. Some could be positive, like lower carbon emissions and reduced demand for limited resources. But plummeting populations could also portend serious economic upheaval caused by too few working-age people producing too few goods and services.Which changes occur, as well as their level of severity, will depend on how well we prepare. But we can’t plan for these changes if no one knows they’re coming. That’s the purpose of Demographic Deception: to expose the overpopulation myth, to inform readers about the possible effects of aging societies and population decline, and to initiate a conversation about what we might do about them. The sooner we plan, innovate, and adapt, the less disruptive and painful these coming changes will be. Indeed, if we play our cards right, they could even present some opportunities.We must recognize what’s happening now. The numbers are playing out right before our eyes. It’s up to us to see them. It’s up to us to act.

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Book SynopsisBaltimore is the birthplace of Francis Scott Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the incomparable Babe Ruth, and the gold medalist Michael Phelps. It’s a one-of-a-kind town with singular stories, well-publicized challenges, and also a rich sporting history. Baltimore Sports: Stories from Charm City chronicles the many ways that sports are an integral part of Baltimore’s history and identity and part of what makes the city unique, interesting, and, for some people, loveable.Wide ranging and eclectic, the essays included here cover not only the Orioles and the Ravens, but also lesser-known Baltimore athletes and teams. Toots Barger, known as the “Queen of the Duckpins,” makes an appearance. So do the Dunbar Poets, considered by some to be the greatest high-school basketball team ever.Bringing together the work of both historians and journalists, including Michael Olesker, former Baltimore Sun columnist, and Rafael Alvarez, who was named Baltimore’s Best Writer by Baltimore Magazine in 2014, Baltimore Sports illuminates Charm City through this fascinating exploration of its teams, fans, and athletes.

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Book SynopsisNew Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own history and culture. Founded in 1718 by the French, transferred to the Spanish in the 1763 Treaty of Paris, and sold to the United States in 1803, the city's culture, law, architecture, food, music, and language share the influence of all three countries. This cultural mélange also manifests in the city's approach to sport, where each game is steeped in the city's history. Tracing that history from the early nineteenth century to the present, while also surveying the state of the city's sports historiography, New Orleans Sports places sport in the context of race relations, politics, and civic and business development to expand that historiography-currently dominated by a text that stops at 1900-into the twentieth century, offering a modern examination of sports in the city.

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Book SynopsisThe histories in Twin Cities Sports are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The compilation includes a wide range of important studies on the hub of interwar speedskating, the success of Gopher football in the Jim Crow era, the integration of municipal golf courses, the building of a world-renowned park system, the Minneapolis Lakers’ basketball dynasty, the Minnesota Twins’ connections to Cuba, and more. Trade Review“Twin Cities Sports constitutes something like a civic biography of athletics for a metropolis that is often described as the ‘most underrated city in America.’ Eschewing hype and boosterism, Sheldon Anderson has produced an admirable, entertaining anthology consistent with the unassuming, candid ethos of the Land of 10,000 Lakes.” —Daniel A. Nathan, former president of the North American Society for Sport History “Well documented and smartly argued, these essays demonstrate the Twin Cities’ compelling history with sports. Sheldon Anderson has succeeded in bringing together essays that express a unique Minnesota connection. A fine resource for history buffs as well as sports fans.” —Chris Elzey, coeditor of DC Sports: the Nation's Capital at PlayTable of ContentsIntroduction Map of Minnesota Map of the Twin Cities1. From Parks to Recreation: The Minneapolis Parks System, 1880s–1920s by Shannon Murray 2. Fairways Open to All: A History of Golf in the Twin Cities by Thomas B. Jones 3. Aces on Ice: The Glory Days of Speed Skating in the Twin Cities by David C. Smith 4. The End of Jim Crow and the Decline of Minnesota Gopher Football by Sheldon Anderson 5. From the Cedar-Riverside Marines to the Purple People Eaters: Professional Football in the Twin Cities by Dick Dahl 6. Just for Kicks: The World’s Game Comes to the Twin Cities by Tom Taylor 7. The State of Basketball: Minnesota’s Storied Hardcourt History by Sheldon Anderson and David C. Smith 8. The Minneapolis Lakers: The First NBA Dynasty by Stew Thornley 9. Minnesota Ice: The Eleventh Hockey Province by David C. Smith and Sheldon Anderson 10. From DC Follies to Frostbite Falls: Calvin Griffith and the Senators’ Move to Minnesota by Jon Kerr 11. The Minnesota Twins, Tony Oliva, and the Cuban Baseball Players by Blair Williams 12. Of King Tuts and Kewpies: Professional Boxing in the Twin Cities by Scott Wright 13. “How ‘bout Dat, You Turkey Necks!”: The Heyday of Twin Cities Pro Wrestling by Sheldon Anderson and Brad Lundell

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Book SynopsisAs a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada's East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, who ""departed this life"" in 1881. Rogers wondered if there might be a connection between the necessity of his own departure, and McDonald's lonely presence on the nearby Atlantic shore, linking them as members of local communities that were displaced in the name of ""economic progress.""In Rough and Plenty: A Memorial, Rogers explores the parallel processes of dispossession suffered by nineteenth-century Scottish crofters expelled from their ancestral lands during the Highland Clearances, and by the marginalization of coastal fishing communities in Nova Scotia. The book aims to memorialize local ways of life that were destroyed by the forces of industrial production, as well as to convey the experience of dislocation using first-hand narratives, recent and historical. The author makes the case that in a world where capital abhors all communities but itself, remembering becomes a form of advocacy that can challenge dominant structures.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive history of the Border Cities area during its formative period in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of Windsor’s emergence during this period is largely one of confrontation and conflict: a multicultural population, industrial expansion, radical politics, and military production all played their part in the city's early history.

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Book Synopsis In 1926/27 the Soviet Central Statistical Administration initiated several yearlong expeditions to gather primary data on the whereabouts, economy and living conditions of all rural peoples living in the Arctic and sub-Arctic at the end of the Russian civil war. Due partly to the enthusiasm of local geographers and ethnographers, the Polar Census grew into a massive ethnological exercise, gathering not only basic demographic and economic data on every household but also a rich archive of photographs, maps, kinship charts, narrative transcripts and museum artifacts. To this day, it remains one of the most comprehensive surveys of a rural population anywhere. The contributors to this volume – all noted scholars in their region – have conducted long-term fieldwork with the descendants of the people surveyed in 1926/27. This volume is the culmination of eight years’ work with the primary record cards and was supported by a number of national scholarly funding agencies in the UK, Canada and Norway. It is a unique historical, ethnographical analysis and of immense value to scholars familiar with these communities’ contemporary cultural dynamics and legacy.Trade Review “The contributors have made excellent use of recently opened archives and interviews with descendants of the people surveyed to provide a uniquely human portrait of this seminal project. While the chapters focus most thoroughly on the Nenets, Khanty, and Yakut, the analysis is of broader relevance to an understanding of Siberian peoples during the first stages of the sovietization of the Far North. This book will prove of unique value to historians of the Soviet period as well as to cultural anthropologists specializing in polar peoples. Highly recommended.” • Choice “All in all, this book is an important contribution to our knowledge about the ethnography and ethnohistory of the indigenous peoples of this region as well as about the immense work undertaken during the very early years of the Soviet Union in an effort to understand the demography and livelihoods of these peoples. The volume belongs on the shelves of all researchers working on these issues.” • Polar Research “This a much-welcome addition to the modern English-language reference library on Siberian indigenous people and the first book-size effort to address their plight and status from the perspective of the Russian archival statistical and documentary records of the early 1900s. It is an outcome of a monumental collaborative project.” • Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian InstitutionTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Note on Cyrillic Transliteration Chapter 1. The Polar Census and the Architecture of Enumeration David G. Anderson Chapter 2. Seasonal Mobility and Sacred Landscape Geography among Northern Hunter-Gatherer Peter Jordan Chapter 3. The Interpretation of Nenets Demography in the First Third of the 20th Century Elena Volzhanina Chapter 4. Undaunted Courage: the Polar Census in the Obdor Region Elena Glavatskaya Chapter 5. Household Structure in the Multi-Ethnic Barents Region – A Local Case Study Gunnar Thorvaldsen Chapter 6. Statistical Surveys of the Kanin Peninsula and the Samoed Question Igor Semenov Chapter 7. The Sustaining Landscape and the Arctic Fox Trade in the European North of Russia 1926-1927 Konstantin Klokov Chapter 8. The Origin of Reindeer Herding as ‘Sector’ on the Kanin Peninsula Stanislav Kiselev Chapter 9. The Spatial Demography of the ‘Outer Taiga’ of the Zhuia River Valley, Eastern Siberia David Anderson, Evgenii Ineshin, John Ziker Chapter 10. Identity, Status, and Fish among Essei Iakuts Tatiana Argounova-Low Chapter 11. Subsistence and Residence in the Putoran Uplands and Taimyr Lowlands John Ziker Appendices Appendix I:The Manuscript Archives of the Polar Census Expeditions Appendix II: Table of Measures Bibliographic and Archival References Notes on the Contributors

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Book Synopsis Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-à-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a “youth bulge” increases the potential for conflict or whether it represents a chance to accumulate wealth and push forward social and technological developments. This book introduces the discussion about youth bulge into social anthropology using Tajikistan, a post-Soviet country that experienced civil war in the 1990s, which is in the middle of such a demographic transition. Sophie Roche develops a social anthropological approach to analyze demographic and political dynamics, and suggests a new way of thinking about social change in youth bulge societies.Trade Review “…a terrifically engaging work, one that addresses a wide range of important ideas while also offering some first-rate ethnographic research. Students of Central Asia, or indeed of social institutions elsewhere, would be well advised to take a close look.” · Central Asian Affairs “[This] is an interesting and valuable study of Tajikistan, but its lessons have much broader implications. Roche has illustrated powerfully that age is a central structural issue in society and that each particular age-category has its own history, interests, and experiences…Fieldworkers and theorists [should] absorb this message and investigate age concepts, relationships, institutions, and practices in all cultures, where no doubt many valuable things will be learned.” · Anthropology Review Database “This is an outstanding study of the ‘youth bulge’ in a remote country of Central Asia…Through her extensive field work, the author acquired a deep personal knowledge of the peculiarity of the country and its culture, for which little is available in the academic literature…This work is important not only for understanding the dynamics of the youth bulge in Tajikistan, but also to better grasp the rationale and multiple dimensions of youth movements in other developing countries of the same geographical area, and in particular the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions.” · Michel Garenne, Institut Pasteur, Paris “This is an interesting and well organized study that deals with a central subject – youth – concerning Tadjik society, but also Muslim societies more generally. The different chapters cover well the multiple aspects of the dynamics of youth bulge (history, economy, migration, social and cultural organization, political events, war). Most important, the book is clearly written and very readable also for a non-specialist.” · Yazid Ben Hounet, CNRS, Paris “The focus of this study on youth in relation to civil war and conflict makes this a very important contribution to Central Asia studies, and to anthropology more generally. The manuscript contains a wealth of ethnographic material, including some very interesting accounts of former fighters in the civil war.” · Johan Rasanayagam, University of AberdeenTable of Contents List of Maps, Figures and Tables Foreword: The Construction of Life Phases and Some Facts of Life Günther Schlee Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration and Usage Introduction: Youth (Bulge) and Conflict Chapter 1. Placing the Field Sites in Their Context – A Demographic History Chapter 2. ‘Why Didn’t You Take a Side?’ –The Emergence of Youth Categories, Institutions and Groups Chapter 3. ‘Siblings are as Different as the Five Fingers of a Hand’ – Developmental Cycle of Domestic Groups and Siblingship Chapter 4. ‘The Gift of Youth’ – Workers, Religious Actors and Migrants Chapter 5. ‘The only Thing in Life that Makes you Feel like a King’ – Marriage as an Indicator of Social and Demographic Changes Chapter 6. ‘Youth are our Future’ – The State’s Youth Categories Challenged by Youth Conclusion: The Dynamics of Youth Bulge as a Question of Domestication Appendix Glossary of Selected Terms Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis When researchers want to study indigenous populations they are dependent upon the highly variable way in which states or territories enumerate, categorise and differentiate indigenous people. In this volume, anthropologists, historians, demographers and sociologists have come together for the first time to examine the historical and contemporary construct of indigenous people in a number of fascinating geographical contexts around the world, including Canada, the United States, Colombia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Balkans and Australia. Using historical and demographical evidence, the contributors explore the creation and validity of categories for enumerating indigenous populations, the use and misuse of ethnic markers, micro-demographic investigations, and demographic databases, and thereby show how the situation varies substantially between countries.Trade Review “This interesting collection looks at changes in population studies and examines indigeneity in contexts as different as Australia and Norway. It is particularly valuable with respect to two broad geographic categories: countries originally settled by British colonists, and states in northern Europe… the study of categorization and enumeration offers valuable insights on how ethnic boundaries are established, and how--inevitably--they are challenged and contested.” · Choice “Using historical and demographical evidence, the contributors explore the creation and validity of categories for enumerating indigenous populations, the use and misuse of ethnic markers, micro-demographic investigations, and demographic databases, and thereby show how the situation varies substantially between countries.” · International Journal of Anthropology “Taken as a whole, [this volume] offers a truly remarkable contribution to the field of indigenous demography. From the content point of view, this is an outstanding example of a dialog between demography, history, and anthropology in the amount of statistical data and analytical synthesis offered… Given the diversity of geographical approach, this volume will be of great interest to specialists in virtually any field of social sciences, politics, and economics.” · Sibirica “As a fascinating set of accounts of the construction of ethnicity and indigeneity among (largely) historical census-takers in (largely) northern populations, it is a compelling read.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of Contents List of Figures, Maps and, Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Per Axelsson and Peter Sköld Chapter 1. Fractional Identities: the Political Arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians Len Smith, Janet McCalman, Ian Anderson, Sandra Smith, Joanne Evans, Gavan McCarthy and Jane Beer Chapter 2. Building Ethnic Boundaries in New Zealand: Representations of Maori Identity in the Census Tahu Kukutai Chapter 3. Counting Indians: Census Categories in Late Colonial and Early Republican Spanish America Steinar A. Saether Chapter 4. The Construction of Life Tables for the American Indian Population at the Turn of the Twentieth Century J. David Hacker and Michael Haines Chapter 5. The Aboriginal Population and the 1891 Census of Canada Michelle Hamilton and Kris Inwood Chapter 6. ‘In the national registry, all people are equal’ - Sami in Swedish statistical sources Per Axelsson Chapter 7. The Registers of the ‘Sami tax’ from 1600 to 1750, and their Usefulness for Reconstructing Population Development and Settlement Lars Ivar Hansen Chapter 8. Viewing Ethnicity From The Perspectives of The Individuals and Households – Finnmark During the Last Part of The Nineteenth Century Hilde L. Jåstad Chapter 9.. ‘Finn in Flux’: ‘finn’ as a Designation in Norwegian Population Censuses of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Bjørg Evjen Chapter 10. Testing and Constructing Ethnicity Variables in Late 19th Century Censuses Gunnar Thorvaldsen Chapter 11. Out of the Backwater? Prospects for Contemporary Sami Demography in Norway Torunn Pettersen Chapter 12. Indigenous Household Structure And Economy Among Lake Essei Iakuts 1926/27: The Mystery Of The Magnate Reindeer Herders David G. Anderson Chapter 13. Ethnodemographics and Identity of Indigenous People in the Central Taimyr Lowlands John Ziker Chapter 14. Russian Legal Concepts And Indigenous Peoples Demography Sergey V. Sokolovskiy Chapter 15. Ethnic Identity and Indigenous Populations in the Demographic Sources of the Eastern Baltic Littoral: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Andrejs Plakans Chapter 16. Who are the British? John MacInnes Epilogue: From Indigenous Demographics to an Indigenous Demography Per Axelsson, Peter Sköld, John P. Ziker and David G. Anderson Index

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Book Synopsis Demographic study and the idea of a “population” was developed and modified over the course of the twentieth century, mirroring the political, social, and cultural situations and aspirations of different societies. This growing field adapted itself to specific policy concerns and was therefore never apolitical, despite the protestations of practitioners that demography was “natural.” Demographics were transformed into public policies that shaped family planning, population growth, medical practice, and environmental conservation. While covering a variety of regions and time periods, the essays in this book share an interest in the transnational dynamics of emerging demographic discourses and practices. Together, they present a global picture of the history of demographic knowledge.Trade Review “…an important step in writing global or transnational histories of demographic ideas and discourses… The volume offers insights into global and local interactions, covers major aspects of global family planning programmes and "overpopulation" debates, as well as contains case studies on the United States, Poland, Chile, South Korea, Turkey, Kenya, and Melanesia.” · H-Soz-Kult “I learned something new on almost every page of A World of Populations, despite having worked very closely in this field. The case studies herein are surprising and fascinating, offering new geographies and perspectives. This book has made me intrigued and curious about demography and world population all over again.” · Alison Bashford, University of Cambridge, author of Global Population “Overall, this is a compelling, well-researched set of essays..[that] show us the nuanced, place-specific negotiations between international institutions and experts, national political entities, and local actors… Both the overall picture and the specific stories provided in this text are important contributions to the emerging literature on the history and social studies of demography and population policy.” · Saul Halfon, Virginia TechTable of Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Counting, Constructing, and Controlling Populations: The History of Demography, Population Studies, and Family Planning in the Twentieth Century Corinna R. Unger and Heinrich Hartmann Part I: Producing Demographic Subjects: Transnational Discourses Chapter 1. The View From Below and the View From Above: What U.S. Census-taking Reveals about Social Representations in the Era of Jim Crow and Immigration Restriction Paul Schor Chapter 2. “Reproduction” as a New Demographic Issue in Interwar Poland Morgane Labbé Chapter 3. Family Planning: A Rational Choice? The Influence of Systems Approaches, Behavioralism, and Rational Choice Thinking on Mid-Twentieth Century Family Planning Programs Corinna R. Unger Chapter 4. “Overpopulation” and the Politics of Family Planning in Chile and Peru: Negotiating National Interests and Global Paradigms in a Cold War World Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney Chapter 5. Revisiting the Early 1970s Commoner-Ehrlich Debate about Population and Environment: Dueling Critiques of Production and Consumption in a Global Age Thomas Robertson Part II: Demographic Knowledge in Practice: Transfers and Transformations Chapter 6. “Counting People”: The Emerging Field of Demography and the Mobilization of the Social Sciences in the Formation of Policy, South Korea since 1948 John Paul DiMoia Chapter 7. Laparoscopy as a Technology of Population Control: A Use-Centered History of Surgical Sterilization Jesse Olszynko-Gryn Chapter 8. A Twofold Discovery of Population: Assessing the Turkish Population by its “Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices”, 1962-1980 Heinrich Hartmann Chapter 9. Seeing Population as a Problem: Influences of the Construction of Population Knowledge on Kenyan Politics (1940s to 1980s) Maria Dörnemann Chapter 10. Filtering Demography and Biomedical Technologies: Melanesian Nurses and Global Population Concerns Alexandra Widmer Index

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Book Synopsis During the 1990s, Naples’ left-wing administration sought to tackle the city’s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city’s cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city’s historic centre through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include heritage, decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Europe’s most fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological critique of how we write about contemporary cities.Trade Review “Nick Dines draws on over a decade of intensive interdisciplinary research—history, politics, cultural studies, social geography, and anthropology— …[and] does a fine job of weaving together the competing narratives to offer a penetrating analysis of the contestation over public space embedded in discourses about civility and citizenship. He…also addresses global questions about citizenship, urban renewal, the inequality of zoning, and the securitization of public space. As such, this book could serve as a model for the analysis, critique, and comparison of other urban renewal projects in cities around the global north because Dines methodically and subtlely makes the local speak to global questions.” · American Anthropologist “…this book offers a necessary contribution to the field: a recent take on a Mediterranean city that many people might rashly presume to know by reputation alone. Naples, the shameful, uncontrollable and uncontrolled metropolis is certainly prime fodder for anthropological study. At the same time, and helpfully for urban anthropologists, Dines seeks to dismiss Naples’ exceptionalism, presenting it instead as an ‘ordinary city’.” · OAC Press “Recognising Naples’ uniqueness, Dines supplies theoretical and analytical tools for understanding urban regeneration…, thus fostering the kind of case study-focused ethnographic research that meets the urgent need to think across different urban experiences. Each case study presented in the book invites reflection upon the implications of political discourses about public space, as well as upon the rhetoric of participation and inclusiveness. Collectively, the case studies show the importance of considering different social groups’ divergent ideas and uses of space when studying spatial conflict. Complexity thus becomes an element to be valued and acknowledged in the urban project—in Naples and in contemporary cities elsewhere.” · Society and Space “Naples must be one of the ethnographically most researched cities in the world. In this multi-method study of three areas of urban regeneration, however, Nick Dines breaks new ground by cross-cutting traditional methodological divisions to produce an intensely detailed and conceptually original analysis of a recent phase in Neapolitan history… By combining ethnographic observation over many years with both interviews and surveys, Dines breaks with narrow disciplinary habits, and contextualizes, historically as well as culturally, key events and movements that have shaped the city’s present-day configuration.” · Qualitative Research “This is a perceptive book and worthwhile read for the true urbanist. It effectively demonstrates, and even showcases, the value of ethnography as a methodology, and any reader would be appreciative of the pointed detail of the archival research. The lessons it offers from Naples on the politics of public space will be of value to anyone studying the contemporary city.” · The AAG Review of Books “Nick Dines’ painstaking study is a fitting and welcome contribution. Drawing on meticulous and extensive fieldwork conducted during the period of urban renewal dubbed the ‘Neapolitan Renaissance’, the book provides an extremely innovative perspective on Naples compared to the mainstream literature…From the outset, the study acts as a powerful tool of deconstruction of the discourses that have framed the city in the contemporary era. Atavistic backwardness, violent plebeianism, irresolvable passivity, unstoppable passion and an irreparable lack of civicness have been accorded varying levels of significance over the course of time but nonetheless remain a permanent feature of all narratives about Naples.” · Il Manifesto “…a well-written, lively and stimulating study… Current public debates on the so-called Neapolitan Renaissance of the 1990s have often been reduced to the simplistic refrain that ‘it was all a question of image’. Tuff Cityinstead returns to the city’s recent past to critically engage with the myriad changes that took place, including shifts in public discourse.” · Il Matino “This is an important book. In a whole series of ways this study of contemporary Naples will set a bench-mark for urban studies and the way urban history is carried out. It is a book about Naples and thus about the particularities and peculiarities of that specific city. However, this is also a book which goes way beyond Naples itself. It has a lot to tell us about the way the city can and should be studied – about urban studies methodologies – and in this area it is highly original and in some ways sets a new agenda for other researchers, historians, anthropologists, ethnologists, and those using cultural studies approaches.” · John Foot, University College London “This is one of the best books I have read: beautifully written and extremely well researched (a refreshing mix of archival research and participant observation) and superbly theorized, with an impressive knowledge of the range of urban theory, as well as meticulous historical contextualization.” · Jo Labanyi, New York University “…[A]n interesting and readable text. It is scholarly, ambitious in scope and well written.” · Victoria Goddard, Goldsmiths, University of LondonTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction PART I: URBAN CHANGE IN AN ORDINARY CITY: NAPLES DURING THE 1990s Chapter 1. The Centro Storico: History of a Concept and Place Chapter 2. Between the General and the Particular: A Neapolitan Version of 'Urban Regeneration' Chapter 3. The Left, the Politics of Citizenship and Shifting Ideas about Naples Chapter 4. Public Space and Urban Change PART II: THE MAKING OF A REGENERATION SYMBOL: HERITAGE, DECORUM AND THE INCURSIONS OF THE EVERYDAY IN PIAZZA PLEBISCITO Chapter 5. Enter the Historic Piazza Chapter 6. From Royal Courtyard to Car Park Chapter 7. The Regeneration of Piazza Plebiscito Chapter 8. Sous les Pavés, la Place! An Ethnography of the New Piazza Plebiscito Chapter 9. Exit Piazza Plebiscito: Rethinking 'Civic' Space PART III: DEPROVINCIALISING URBAN REGENERATION: PIAZZA GARIBALDI AND IMMIGRATION DURING THE BASSOLINO ERA Chapter 10. Enter the Station Piazza Chapter 11. Antechamber to the Southern Italian Capital (1860-1994 Chapter 12. Piazza Garibaldi as an Unregenerate Space (1994-2001) Chapter 13. Mapping Immigrant Experiences in and of Piazza Garibaldi Chapter 14. Exit Piazza Garibaldi: (Re)connecting Immigration and Urban Renewal PART IV: AN ALTERNATIVE IDEA OF PUBLIC SPACE: THE CENTRO SOCIALE IN MONTESANTO Chapter 15. Enter a Neighbourhood Park Chapter 16. The Popular Neighbourhoods in the Twentieth Century Chapter 17. Diego Armando Maradona Montesanto (DAMM): Collective Action over Public Space in Montesanto Chapter 18. Exit DAMM: The Constitutive Role of Collective Action upon Public Space Conclusion: Rethinking Urban Change in Late Twentieth-Century Naples Glossary of Italian Terms Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis The Sámi are a Northern indigenous people whose land, Sápmi, covers territory in Finland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. For the Nordic Sámi, the last decades of the twentieth century saw their indigenous rights partially recognized, a cultural and linguistic revival, and the establishment of Sámi parliaments. The Russian Sámi, however, did not have the same opportunities and were isolated behind the closed border until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This book examines the following two decades and the Russian Sámi’s attempt to achieve a linguistic revival, to mend the Cold War scars, and to establish their own independent ethno-political organizations.Trade Review “[These] excellent chapters detail the emergence of cross-border ties between Russia's Sámi communities and Nordic Sámi, and assess their contributions to cultural renewal . . . The socioeconomic and cultural portrait [drawn] will likely seem all too familiar to scholars of other Arctic and subarctic indigenous populations in northern Eurasia, but some of the information is unique to Russia's Sámi, making this an indispensable contribution to the documentation of northern peoples. Essential.” · Choice “The Sámi political movement, although mentioned in many works, has been a central topic in very few publications. This makes Overland’s and Berg-Nordlie’s monograph a long-awaited study . . . Bridging Divides, with its wide representation of diverse and often conflicting local opinions and societal attitudes toward the Sámi political movement, that cross ethnic borders and limitations, is emblematic of the establishment of ‘multivocality’ and democratization gaining ground.” · Acta Borealia “The work offers an important case study . . . of an indigenous revitalization movement and thereby allows for comparison with similar developments not only among the officially recognized forty ‘Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Far East of the Russian Federation’ but also with other indigenous peoples in industrialized countries . . . It is a valuable contribution to the literature on language loss and bilingualism and the phenomenon of gender shift frequently discussed in recent anthropological literature about the Russian North.” · Stephan Dudeck, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland “The authors give the reader a close and sophisticated analysis of the almost impossible project of restoring a cultural tradition, a lost language, and way of life [while] balancing precariously under harsh and marginal ecological and economic conditions . . . [It is] well written, well organized as a text, and well documented.” · Jens-Ivar Nergaard, University of TromsøTable of Contents Acknowledgements Transcription Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Who are the Russian Sámi? Chapter 3. Lost Land, Broken Culture Chapter 4. Language Revival Chapter 5. Educational Re-orientation Chapter 6. Political Representation Chapter 7. Conclusions Appendix I: Glossary and Abbreviations Appendix II: Sámi population estimates Appendix III: Nuclear bomb testing on the Kola Peninsula Appendix IV: Inter-ethnic relations Appendix V: Language Appendix VI: Three Intertwined Social Problems Appendix VII: The complexity of ethnic identity Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA quarter of a century ago, Heather Joshi edited a landmark volume (sponsored by the British Society for Population Studies and the Centre for Economic Policy Research) entitled The Changing Population of Britain. In 2014-15, to mark the 25th anniversary of this book, the BSPS teamed up with the British Academy to hold a series of events on population developments in the UK and the policy issues that they raise, and has built on these presentations to produce a new edited collection on the changing population of the UK. This book shows that the UK's population is increasing faster than at any point in the last 100 years, it is getting progressively older and it is becoming more diverse culturally and ethnically. More school leavers are going on to university. Cohabitation has been replacing marriage, more children live in one-parent families and young adults are finding it harder to get on the property ladder. Many women are delaying having children until their 40s. Cities have seen a resurgence in population but there is still pressure on the countryside, while the north-south divide is getting ever wider, as too are local socio-economic disparities. The contributors to this book document these changes, examine their causes and discuss future prospects and their policy implications.Trade Review[T]he editors have delivered a book that will serve as a benchmark in demographic research for the next 25 years…. Champion and Falkingham have brought together contributions that collectively provide an authoritative portrayal of the transformations occurring over the last quarter of a century. Whilst each chapter offers new insights into changes in the structure and composition of the population or the underlying behavioural processes and their outcomes, the volume as a whole provides a comprehensive and very useful synthesis of the complex and interrelated nature of socio-demographic dynamics. It is indeed a worthy successor to Joshi’s collection published in 1989 and one that I feel sure that many academics and policy makers will refer to in the years ahead. * Population, Space, and Place *The volume is well conceived and executed. The tables and charts, as one would expect from the BSPS and editors, are a model. * Population and Development Review *How much has population changed in Britain? Where has it changed? What has been driving changes? Where might they be heading? This book considers births, deaths, migration (external and internal), ageing, social and spatial inequalities, ethnicity, families, households and sexual behaviour. These important essays by leading experts are all the more valuable, as the government no longer publishes regular commentary. -- Heather Joshi, Emeritus Professor of Economic and Developmental Demography at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University College LondonThe population in the United Kingdom is changing fast. This volume guides us through the key drivers and implications of population change in a careful, rigorous and fascinating way. Demography, as a science, was born in Britain more than three centuries ago. It is alive and kicking, and more relevant than ever before. -- Francesco C. Billari FBA, Professor of Sociology and Demography, University of OxfordAn authoritative portrayal of the transformations occurring over the last quarter of a century. Whilst each chapter offers new insights into changes in either the structure and composition of the population or the underlying behavioural processes, the volume as a whole provides a comprehensive synthesis of the complex and interrelated nature of socio-demographic dynamics. It is indeed a worthy successor to Joshi’s collection published in 1989. -- John Stillwell, Professor of Migration and Regional Development, University of LeedsThe volume is well conceived and executed. The tables and charts, as one would expect from the BSPS and editors, are a model. * Population and Development Review *This edited volume is an important book for the study of population changes in the United Kingdom. * Canadian Studies in Population, 45/1-2 *Table of ContentsList of Tables / List of Figures / Foreword by Professor Sir Ian Diamond / Preface by the Editors / 1. Population Change in the UK: What Can the Last 25 Years Tell us About the Next 25 Years?, Jane Falkingham and Tony Champion / 2. The Ageing Population: Implications for Health and Social Care, Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham and Athina Vlachantoni / 3. Inequalities in the Experience of Later Life: Differentials in Health, Wealth and Wellbeing, Alan Marshall and James Nazroo / 4. International Migration and Asylum Seekers, Jakub Bijak, George Disney, Sarah Lubman and Arkadiusz Wiśniowski / 5. Immigrants and Ethnic Fertility Convergence, Sylvie Dubuc / 6. Children's Changing Family Context, Ursula Henz / 7. Household Composition and Housing Need, Ann Berrington and Ludi Simpson / 8. Internal Migration and the Spatial Distribution of Population, Tony Champion / 9. Ethnic Diversity, Nissa Finney and Gemma Catney / 10. Reproductive and Sexual Behaviour and Health, Ernestina Coast and Emily Freeman / 11. The Changing Geography of Deprivation: 1971 to 2011 and Beyond, Paul Norman / Bibliography / Index / Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisA quarter of a century ago, Heather Joshi edited a landmark volume (sponsored by the British Society for Population Studies and the Centre for Economic Policy Research) entitled The Changing Population of Britain. In 2014-15, to mark the 25th anniversary of this book, the BSPS teamed up with the British Academy to hold a series of events on population developments in the UK and the policy issues that they raise, and has built on these presentations to produce a new edited collection on the changing population of the UK. This book shows that the UK's population is increasing faster than at any point in the last 100 years, it is getting progressively older and it is becoming more diverse culturally and ethnically. More school leavers are going on to university. Cohabitation has been replacing marriage, more children live in one-parent families and young adults are finding it harder to get on the property ladder. Many women are delaying having children until their 40s. Cities have seen a resurgence in population but there is still pressure on the countryside, while the north-south divide is getting ever wider, as too are local socio-economic disparities. The contributors to this book document these changes, examine their causes and discuss future prospects and their policy implications.Trade Review[T]he editors have delivered a book that will serve as a benchmark in demographic research for the next 25 years…. Champion and Falkingham have brought together contributions that collectively provide an authoritative portrayal of the transformations occurring over the last quarter of a century. Whilst each chapter offers new insights into changes in the structure and composition of the population or the underlying behavioural processes and their outcomes, the volume as a whole provides a comprehensive and very useful synthesis of the complex and interrelated nature of socio-demographic dynamics. It is indeed a worthy successor to Joshi’s collection published in 1989 and one that I feel sure that many academics and policy makers will refer to in the years ahead. * Population, Space, and Place *The volume is well conceived and executed. The tables and charts, as one would expect from the BSPS and editors, are a model. * Population and Development Review *How much has population changed in Britain? Where has it changed? What has been driving changes? Where might they be heading? This book considers births, deaths, migration (external and internal), ageing, social and spatial inequalities, ethnicity, families, households and sexual behaviour. These important essays by leading experts are all the more valuable, as the government no longer publishes regular commentary. -- Heather Joshi, Emeritus Professor of Economic and Developmental Demography at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University College LondonThe population in the United Kingdom is changing fast. This volume guides us through the key drivers and implications of population change in a careful, rigorous and fascinating way. Demography, as a science, was born in Britain more than three centuries ago. It is alive and kicking, and more relevant than ever before. -- Francesco C. Billari FBA, Professor of Sociology and Demography, University of OxfordAn authoritative portrayal of the transformations occurring over the last quarter of a century. Whilst each chapter offers new insights into changes in either the structure and composition of the population or the underlying behavioural processes, the volume as a whole provides a comprehensive synthesis of the complex and interrelated nature of socio-demographic dynamics. It is indeed a worthy successor to Joshi’s collection published in 1989. -- John Stillwell, Professor of Migration and Regional Development, University of LeedsThe volume is well conceived and executed. The tables and charts, as one would expect from the BSPS and editors, are a model. * Population and Development Review *This edited volume is an important book for the study of population changes in the United Kingdom. * Canadian Studies in Population, 45/1-2 *Table of ContentsList of Tables / List of Figures / Foreword by Professor Sir Ian Diamond / Preface by the Editors / 1. Population Change in the UK: What Can the Last 25 Years Tell us About the Next 25 Years?, Jane Falkingham and Tony Champion / 2. The Ageing Population: Implications for Health and Social Care, Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham and Athina Vlachantoni / 3. Inequalities in the Experience of Later Life: Differentials in Health, Wealth and Wellbeing, Alan Marshall and James Nazroo / 4. International Migration and Asylum Seekers, Jakub Bijak, George Disney, Sarah Lubman and Arkadiusz Wiśniowski / 5. Immigrants and Ethnic Fertility Convergence, Sylvie Dubuc / 6. Children's Changing Family Context, Ursula Henz / 7. Household Composition and Housing Need, Ann Berrington and Ludi Simpson / 8. Internal Migration and the Spatial Distribution of Population, Tony Champion / 9. Ethnic Diversity, Nissa Finney and Gemma Catney / 10. Reproductive and Sexual Behaviour and Health, Ernestina Coast and Emily Freeman / 11. The Changing Geography of Deprivation: 1971 to 2011 and Beyond, Paul Norman / Bibliography / Index / Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisAs fertility rates decrease, a country’s working-age population grows larger relative to the young dependent population. With more people in the labor force and fewer children to support, a country has a window of opportunity for rapid economic growth if the right social and economic investments and policies are made in health, education, governance and the economy. Conversely, research shows that resource requirements to support a large population of children and youth can depress the pace of economic growth and prevent needed investments in human capital. The discourse on responding to this population growth frequently excludes the youth. The result can be an apathetic community of young people who withdraw from participation in political and democratic processes. The book is a compilation of articles that address the issue and highlight solutions from different parts of the world, from members of the Global Diplomacy Lab to external contributors: how they see their work promoting, enhancing and contributing to harvesting the demographic dividend.Trade Review“In reviewing this book, I found the author’s use of unconventional case studies with illustrations to convey stories quite interesting. It brings even a layman to the understanding of the importance of youth in relation to the demographic dividend and what can be done to harness it to the benefit of nations and the world at large before it is too late.” — Elizabeth Adekunle, Executive Director, African Women and Youth Organization“This compilation is of enormous value to researchers, scholars and university libraries. The essays explore topics in an innovative and creative manner. The authors know their subjects and explore them with commitment, often producing exquisitely expressed documentation.” — Melanie Cheary, strategic communications developer for humanitarian programmesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations; Foreword by Ambassador HE Dr Michael Schaefer; Notes on Contributors; Introduction by Eirliani Abdul Rahman, ElsaMarie D’Silva and Sonja Peteranderl; Chapter 1 Reaping Morocco’s Demographic Dividend: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa, Lynn Houmdi; Chapter 2 Social Media as a Weapon: How the Youth in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas Fight Police Violence, Julia Jaroschewski; Chapter 3 Mobilising Human Capital to Harness the Demographic Dividend: The Role of the Diaspora as Actors of Change in the Gambia, Kebba- Omar Jagne; Chapter 4 Engaging Youth to Address Sexual Violence in India, ElsaMarie D’Silva; Chapter 5 Putting the African Girl at the Centre of Demographic Change Programmes, Ekua Yankah; Chapter 6 From Incarceration to Transformation: Ex-Gang Members as Actors of Change in Los Angeles 65, Sonja Peteranderl; Chapter 7 African Continental Youth Policy as a Tool for Harnessing the Demographic Dividend, Patrick Mpedzisi and Annegret Warth; Chapter 8 Digital Mindfulness for Indian Millennials, Rudrani Dasgupta; Chapter 9 Lessons from Africa: What Can a Community of Pastoralists Offer the International Cooperation Community?, Elizabeth Maloba and Stefan Cibian; Chapter 10 Revisiting Democracy: Intersectionality, Youth and the Imperative of ‘Climate Justice’ – Sardinia’s ‘Europe Day’, Colette Mazzucelli, Christian Rossi and Viola Prisca Roggia; Acknowledgements; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to place Halbwachs in his historical and intellectual context, showing that his work was sensitive to the events of his time, and that the development of his analysis could be influenced by happenstance. The book does this, not by summarizing or synthesizing his thinking, by the growing literature embodied by many sociologists and historians of social sciences, published for the most part in scientific journals, that focus on the sociological thought that Halbwachs developed in his writings. Then come many studies that emerge from the history of ideas and epistemology: these are entirely devoted to a particular facet of Halbwachs’ work, either to place it in its scientific context or to discuss it on the basis of fundamental cognitive issues.Trade ReviewThe Anthem Companions to Sociology offers wide ranging and masterly overviews of the works of major sociologists. The volumes in the series provide authoritative and critical appraisals of key figures in modern social thought. These books, written and edited by leading figures, are essential additional reading on the history of sociology. — Gerard Delanty, Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex, BrightonThis ambitious series provides an intellectually thoughtful introduction to the featured social theorists and offers a comprehensive assessment of their legacy. Each edited collection synthesizes the many dimensions of the respective theorist’s contributions and sympathetically ponders the various nuances in and the broader societal context for their body of work. The series will be appreciated by seasoned scholars and students alike. — Michele Dillon, Professor of Sociology and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, University of New HampshireThe orchestration and emergence of the Anthem Companions to Sociology represent a formidable and invaluable achievement. Each companion explores the scope, ingenuity, and conceptual subtleties of the works of a theorist indispensable to the sociological project. The editors and contributors for each volume are the very best in their fields, and they guide us towards the richest, most creative seams in the writings of their thinker. The results, strikingly consistent from one volume to the next, brush away the years, reanimate what might have been lost, and bring numerous rays of illumination to the most pressing challenges of the present. — Rob Stones, Professor of Sociology, Western Sydney University, AustraliaThe Anthem Companions, those that have appeared already and those that are to come, will give every sociologist a handy and authoritative guide to all the giants of their discipline. — Stephen Mennell, Professor Emeritus, University College DublinEach volume of the Anthem Companions to Sociology examines comprehensively not only a theorist’s distinct approach and unique contributions, but also situates each in reference to the major parameters of mainstream theoretical schools and traditions. This remarkable Series in addition throws into high relief the singular features of modern societies. It promises to set the standard for discussions of Sociology’s long-term development and belongs on the shelves of every social scientist.— Stephen Kalberg, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Boston University This valuable series covers both familiar figures in the history of sociology (such as Max Weber and, prospectively, Marx and Durkheim) and less often treated ones such as Arendt and Troeltsch who are also highly relevant to sociology, broadly conceived. In these books, leading scholars explore important but often neglected aspects of their subjects’ work. — William Outhwaite, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1. A Theorist of Collective Memory, Éric Brian; Chapter 2. Halbwachs and the Durkheimian Perspective on History, Robert Leroux; Chapter 3. Maurice Halbwachs, Sociologist of Memory: His Reception in Italy and the Development of the Sociology of Memory, Teresa Grande; Chapter 4. Population as the Body of Society, Jean-Christophe Marcel; Chapter 5. Urban Morphology and Social Morphology: Marcel Roncayolo and the Work of Maurice Halbwachs, Gilles Montigny; Chapter 6. Halbwachs’s Leibniz and Halbwachs’s Sociology, Guillaume Coqui; Chapter 7. Halbwachs on Quetelet and the Use of Statistics in Sociology, Christian Robitaille; Chapter 8. Maurice Halbwachs and the Sociology of Consumption and Social Classes, Lorenzo Migliorati; Chapter 9. From Criticism of Moral to the Probalistic Test, Éric Brian; Chapter 10. The Age Criterion: Between Sociology and Biology, Marie Jaisson; Chapter 11. Speculation: Order or Disorder?, Jacques Lautman; List of Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis in a nondogmatic way. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the capitalist demand for labor and mediated by the role of women in society. Procreation and Population is a critical text, opposing the current disciplinary fences that demonstrably hinder our comprehension of social phenomena. Attentive to gender relations, the book boldly tracks “the big picture” of population dynamics and its most reliable theories in times of postmodernist taboos on generalizations and on the search for the historical laws of human society.Table of ContentsList of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Population, Procreation and Modes of Production; 2. Historical Social Science; 3. The Principle of Population versus the Law of Capitalist Accumulation; 4. Demography and Its Myths; 5. Dynamics of Pre- Industrial Populations; 6. Labor Demand and the Industrial Revolution; 7. Population Growth in Incorporated Areas; 8. Development, Population and Energy; References and Datasets; Index.

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Book Synopsis Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-à-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a “youth bulge” increases the potential for conflict or whether it represents a chance to accumulate wealth and push forward social and technological developments. This book introduces the discussion about youth bulge into social anthropology using Tajikistan, a post-Soviet country that experienced civil war in the 1990s, which is in the middle of such a demographic transition. Sophie Roche develops a social anthropological approach to analyze demographic and political dynamics, and suggests a new way of thinking about social change in youth bulge societies.Trade Review “…a terrifically engaging work, one that addresses a wide range of important ideas while also offering some first-rate ethnographic research. Students of Central Asia, or indeed of social institutions elsewhere, would be well advised to take a close look.” · Central Asian Affairs “[This] is an interesting and valuable study of Tajikistan, but its lessons have much broader implications. Roche has illustrated powerfully that age is a central structural issue in society and that each particular age-category has its own history, interests, and experiences…Fieldworkers and theorists [should] absorb this message and investigate age concepts, relationships, institutions, and practices in all cultures, where no doubt many valuable things will be learned.” · Anthropology Review Database “This is an outstanding study of the ‘youth bulge’ in a remote country of Central Asia…Through her extensive field work, the author acquired a deep personal knowledge of the peculiarity of the country and its culture, for which little is available in the academic literature…This work is important not only for understanding the dynamics of the youth bulge in Tajikistan, but also to better grasp the rationale and multiple dimensions of youth movements in other developing countries of the same geographical area, and in particular the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions.” · Michel Garenne, Institut Pasteur, Paris “This is an interesting and well organized study that deals with a central subject – youth – concerning Tadjik society, but also Muslim societies more generally. The different chapters cover well the multiple aspects of the dynamics of youth bulge (history, economy, migration, social and cultural organization, political events, war). Most important, the book is clearly written and very readable also for a non-specialist.” · Yazid Ben Hounet, CNRS, Paris “The focus of this study on youth in relation to civil war and conflict makes this a very important contribution to Central Asia studies, and to anthropology more generally. The manuscript contains a wealth of ethnographic material, including some very interesting accounts of former fighters in the civil war.” · Johan Rasanayagam, University of AberdeenTable of Contents List of Maps, Figures and Tables Foreword: The Construction of Life Phases and Some Facts of Life Günther Schlee Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration and Usage Introduction: Youth (Bulge) and Conflict Chapter 1. Placing the Field Sites in Their Context – A Demographic History Chapter 2. ‘Why Didn’t You Take a Side?’ –The Emergence of Youth Categories, Institutions and Groups Chapter 3. ‘Siblings are as Different as the Five Fingers of a Hand’ – Developmental Cycle of Domestic Groups and Siblingship Chapter 4. ‘The Gift of Youth’ – Workers, Religious Actors and Migrants Chapter 5. ‘The only Thing in Life that Makes you Feel like a King’ – Marriage as an Indicator of Social and Demographic Changes Chapter 6. ‘Youth are our Future’ – The State’s Youth Categories Challenged by Youth Conclusion: The Dynamics of Youth Bulge as a Question of Domestication Appendix Glossary of Selected Terms Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis Demographic study and the idea of a “population” was developed and modified over the course of the twentieth century, mirroring the political, social, and cultural situations and aspirations of different societies. This growing field adapted itself to specific policy concerns and was therefore never apolitical, despite the protestations of practitioners that demography was “natural.” Demographics were transformed into public policies that shaped family planning, population growth, medical practice, and environmental conservation. While covering a variety of regions and time periods, the essays in this book share an interest in the transnational dynamics of emerging demographic discourses and practices. Together, they present a global picture of the history of demographic knowledge.Trade Review “…an important step in writing global or transnational histories of demographic ideas and discourses… The volume offers insights into global and local interactions, covers major aspects of global family planning programmes and "overpopulation" debates, as well as contains case studies on the United States, Poland, Chile, South Korea, Turkey, Kenya, and Melanesia.” · H-Soz-Kult “I learned something new on almost every page of A World of Populations, despite having worked very closely in this field. The case studies herein are surprising and fascinating, offering new geographies and perspectives. This book has made me intrigued and curious about demography and world population all over again.” · Alison Bashford, University of Cambridge, author of Global Population “Overall, this is a compelling, well-researched set of essays..[that] show us the nuanced, place-specific negotiations between international institutions and experts, national political entities, and local actors… Both the overall picture and the specific stories provided in this text are important contributions to the emerging literature on the history and social studies of demography and population policy.” · Saul Halfon, Virginia TechTable of Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Counting, Constructing, and Controlling Populations: The History of Demography, Population Studies, and Family Planning in the Twentieth Century Corinna R. Unger and Heinrich Hartmann Part I: Producing Demographic Subjects: Transnational Discourses Chapter 1. The View From Below and the View From Above: What U.S. Census-taking Reveals about Social Representations in the Era of Jim Crow and Immigration Restriction Paul Schor Chapter 2. “Reproduction” as a New Demographic Issue in Interwar Poland Morgane Labbé Chapter 3. Family Planning: A Rational Choice? The Influence of Systems Approaches, Behavioralism, and Rational Choice Thinking on Mid-Twentieth Century Family Planning Programs Corinna R. Unger Chapter 4. “Overpopulation” and the Politics of Family Planning in Chile and Peru: Negotiating National Interests and Global Paradigms in a Cold War World Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney Chapter 5. Revisiting the Early 1970s Commoner-Ehrlich Debate about Population and Environment: Dueling Critiques of Production and Consumption in a Global Age Thomas Robertson Part II: Demographic Knowledge in Practice: Transfers and Transformations Chapter 6. “Counting People”: The Emerging Field of Demography and the Mobilization of the Social Sciences in the Formation of Policy, South Korea since 1948 John Paul DiMoia Chapter 7. Laparoscopy as a Technology of Population Control: A Use-Centered History of Surgical Sterilization Jesse Olszynko-Gryn Chapter 8. A Twofold Discovery of Population: Assessing the Turkish Population by its “Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices”, 1962-1980 Heinrich Hartmann Chapter 9. Seeing Population as a Problem: Influences of the Construction of Population Knowledge on Kenyan Politics (1940s to 1980s) Maria Dörnemann Chapter 10. Filtering Demography and Biomedical Technologies: Melanesian Nurses and Global Population Concerns Alexandra Widmer Index

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Book Synopsis In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition. This collection brings together anthropological case studies, placing them in a comparative framework of compositional demography and conjunctural action. The volume addresses major issues of inequality and distribution which shape population and social structures, and in which fertility trends and the formation and size of families are not decided solely or primarily by reproduction.Trade Review “Philip Kreager and Astrid Bochow’s edited Fertility, conjuncture, difference is a convincing continuation of critical discussions which began in the mid-1990s about, on the one hand, using anthropological approaches in order to understand the heterogeneity of modern reproductive change and, on the other, the possibilities for creating an anthropological demography. This effort is tackled in the volume’s extraordinary introduction, in which the editors outline the innovative research strategy – combining conjunctural action and compositional difference – needed to unravel the continuing diversity of fertility world-wide.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “These rich interdisciplinary studies show fertility decisions are not made according to rational choice economic theory and a vague concept of ‘modernity.’ Each case study here presents cultural and personal factors coalesced around reproductive decisions that women and men consider when making life decisions. The editors and contributors are to be congratulated for this splendid and insightful contribution to understanding reproductive decision making and, not least, the benefits of interdisciplinarity. Highly recommended.” • Journal of the Motherhood Initiative “This volume offers much needed empirical support to the concept of vital conjunctures, but it also provides a more theoretical discussion explaining the reproductive decision-making beyond the mere economic rationality of the actors. The fact that demographic explanations should pay closer attention to the compositional effects, achieved through the individual agency within the “multiple potential futures” stands as the biggest strength of the book.” • Anthropological Notebooks “Outstanding. This volume follows in a distinct lineage of both historically and anthropologically-informed critical studies of the demographic analysis of fertility decline and reproductive change. It is an excellent addition to that corpus of work.” • Simon Szreter, St John’s College, CambridgeTable of Contents List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables Preface Introduction Philip Kreager and Astrid Bochow Chapter 1. The Key to Fertility: Generation, Reproduction and Class Formation in a Namibian Community Julia Pauli Chapter 2. Becoming and Belonging in African Historical Demography, 1900-2000 Sarah Walters This chapter is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY) thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust. Chapter 3. Between the Central Laws of Moscow and Local Particularity: The Reproduction of Subgroups in the South of Tajikistan Sophie Roche and Sophie Hohmann Chapter 4. Feeling Secure to Reproduce: Economy, Community and Fertility in Southern Europe Patrick Heady Chapter 5. Ambivalent Men: Male Dilemmas and Fertility Control in Senegal Sara Randall, Nathalie Mondain, and Alioune Diagne Chapter 6. Accounting for Reproductive Difference: Sociality, Temporality and Individuality during Pregnancy in Cameroon Erica van der Sijpt Chapter 7. Understanding Childlessness in Botswana: Reproduction and Tswana-nization of Middle-Class Identities in the Twenty-First Century Astrid Bochow Chapter 8. Low Fertility and Secret Family Planning in Lesotho Lena L. Kroeker Chapter 9. ‘The Doctor’s Way’: Traditional Contraception and Modernity in Cambodia Eleanor Hukin Chapter 10. Demographers on Culture: Fertility, Nuptiality, Family Structures Yves Charbit and Véronique Petit Chapter 11. Vital Conjunctures Revisited Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks Index

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Book SynopsisSocial movements play a significant role in the political and social landscape of Latin America. They emanate from different sections of society and are motivated by many different concerns, including workers’ rights, agrarian and land reform, the rights of indigenous peoples, gender inequality and the fight against environmental degradation. Ronaldo Munck explores the mosaic of interlocking and connected issues that make up the complex map of social movements in Latin America and shows why, despite being a fragmented political force, these movements are at the centre of any future progressive politics in the region. As such they require careful understanding and, he suggests, a more nuanced theoretical approach than previous studies have offered. Combining insights from Latin American approaches to social movement theory and detailed empirical case studies, the book provides readers with an understanding of the vital role social activism plays in the region and offers students the methodological tools to develop their own research agendas.Trade ReviewA tour de force of the theories, debates and methods for making sense of Latin American social movements. Munck’s comprehensive overview skilfully speaks to ideas that will be of interest to both regional specialists and to social movements scholars more widely. Readers will no longer be able to approach either social movements or Latin America without a deep appreciation of how they have shaped each other. -- Sam Halvorsen, Queen Mary University of LondonA useful and well-written overview of the diverse social movements in Latin America ... a great resource for students. -- Benjamin Selwyn, University of SussexBuilding on extensive research on Latin America's inequalities, Munck's vibrant account has it all: in-depth case studies convey the dynamics on the ground, set within a clear overview of Latin American and North Atlantic theories and a methodological appendix covering key ethical and practical issues. A book for students and researchers alike. -- Sarah A. Radcliffe, University of CambridgeTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Theories3. Workers4. Peasants5. Community6. Women7. Indigenous8. Environmental9. Ways Forward10. Methodological Appendix

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Book SynopsisSocial movements play a significant role in the political and social landscape of Latin America. They emanate from different sections of society and are motivated by many different concerns, including workers’ rights, agrarian and land reform, the rights of indigenous peoples, gender inequality and the fight against environmental degradation. Ronaldo Munck explores the mosaic of interlocking and connected issues that make up the complex map of social movements in Latin America and shows why, despite being a fragmented political force, these movements are at the centre of any future progressive politics in the region. As such they require careful understanding and, he suggests, a more nuanced theoretical approach than previous studies have offered. Combining insights from Latin American approaches to social movement theory and detailed empirical case studies, the book provides readers with an understanding of the vital role social activism plays in the region and offers students the methodological tools to develop their own research agendas.Trade ReviewA tour de force of the theories, debates and methods for making sense of Latin American social movements. Munck’s comprehensive overview skilfully speaks to ideas that will be of interest to both regional specialists and to social movements scholars more widely. Readers will no longer be able to approach either social movements or Latin America without a deep appreciation of how they have shaped each other. -- Sam Halvorsen, Queen Mary University of LondonA useful and well-written overview of the diverse social movements in Latin America ... a great resource for students. -- Benjamin Selwyn, University of SussexBuilding on extensive research on Latin America's inequalities, Munck's vibrant account has it all: in-depth case studies convey the dynamics on the ground, set within a clear overview of Latin American and North Atlantic theories and a methodological appendix covering key ethical and practical issues. A book for students and researchers alike. -- Sarah A. Radcliffe, University of CambridgeTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Theories3. Workers4. Peasants5. Community6. Women7. Indigenous8. Environmental9. Ways Forward10. Methodological Appendix

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