Population, mobility and belonging understanding population concepts in media, culture and society / Rob Cover.
| Author/creator | Cover, Rob |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Population as a social, media and cultural concept -- Fertility promotion, power and contemporary eugenics -- Crowded concepts and the politics of the big nation -- Population and identity -- Overpopulation in visual representation -- Underpopulation and apocalyptic narratives -- Genetics, population purity and the 'race of devils' -- The 'forgotten' people -- Bodies, racialised populations and practices of othering -- Attitudes of welcome : ethics of cohabitation and sustainability. |
| Abstract | "In a world of increasing mobility and migration, population size and composition come under persistent scrutiny across public policy, public debate, and film and television. Drawing on media, cultural and social theory approaches, this book takes a fresh look at the concept of 'population' as a term that circulates outside the traditional disciplinary areas of demography, governance and statistics - a term which gives coherence to notions such as community, nation, the world and global humanity itself. It focuses on understanding how the concept of population governs ways of thinking about our own identities and forms of belonging at local, national and international levels; on the manner in which television genres fixate on depictions of overpopulation and underpopulation; on the emergence of questions of ethics of belonging and migration in relation to cities; on attitudes towards otherness; and on the use by an emergent alt-right politics of population in 'forgotten people' concepts. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and media and cultural studies with interests in questions of belonging, citizenship and population"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Cover, Rob. Population, mobility and belonging Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. 9780367186876 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019024112 |
| ISBN | 9780429197604 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |