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Research in Population Economics (Hardcover): Paul T. Schultz Research in Population Economics (Hardcover)
Paul T. Schultz
R3,595 Discovery Miles 35 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume discusses a variety of topics in the field of research in population economics, under the headings of the economics of the family in low- and high-income countries, time-series analyses of fertility, and private and public investments in education.

The Domestication of Europe (Paperback): I. Hodder The Domestication of Europe (Paperback)
I. Hodder
R1,159 Discovery Miles 11 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Neolithic saw the spread of the first farmers, and the formation of settled villages throughout Europe. Traditional archaeology has interpreted these changes in terms of population growth, economic pressures and social competition, but in The Domestication of Europe Ian Hodder works from a new, controversial theory focusing instead on the enormous expansion of symbolic evidence from the homes, settlements and burials of the period. Why do the figurines, decorated pottery, elaborate houses and burial rituals appear and what is their significance? The author argues that the symbolism of the Neolithic must be interpreted if we are to understand adequately the associated social and economic changes. He suggests that both in Europe and the Near East a particular set of concepts was central to the origins of farming and a settled mode of life. These concepts relate to the house and home - termed `domus' - and they provided a metaphor and a mechanism for social and economic transformation. As the wild was brought in and domesticated through ideas and practices surrounding the domus, people were brought in and settled into the social and economic group of the village. Over the following millennia cultural practices relating to the domus continued to change and develop, until finally overtaken by a new set of concepts which became socially central, based on the warrior, the hunter and the wild. This book is an exercise in interpretive prehistory. Ian Hodder shows how a contextual reading of the evidence can allow symbolic structures to be cautiously but plausibly identified, and sets out his arguments for complex dialectical relationships between long-term symbolic structures and economic causes of cultural change.

Analysis with Local Census Data - Portraits of Change (Paperback): Dowell Myers Analysis with Local Census Data - Portraits of Change (Paperback)
Dowell Myers
R3,095 Discovery Miles 30 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 1990 United States Census was the most exhaustive in history. The vast majority of census users seek information about local areas, yet they lack examples or methodology texts prepared by experts in the field. This book is dedicated to the needs of these local census data users. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the data and teaches useful methods of analysis, focusing on four major themes: mastering access to the full range of census data, measuring changes over time, comparing places, and demonstrating how different aspects of change fit together. More than a reference book or how-to-manual, the emphasis throughout is on developing a sophisticated, critical understanding of the census.
Key Features
* Provides a comprehensive introduction to the scope of local census data and carefully explains the different variables and sources of data
* Emphasizes how analysis can be conducted to extract maximum use from local data
* Written to coincide with the publication of the 1990 United States Census data

China's Changing Population (Paperback): Judith Banister China's Changing Population (Paperback)
Judith Banister
R1,175 R1,070 Discovery Miles 10 700 Save R105 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this comprehensive analysis of thirty-five years of population change in the People's Republic of China, the author highlights China's shifting population policies and pieces together the available data, assessing and adjusting them as necessary in order to discover the actual population changes.

The Ultimate Resource 2 (Paperback, Revised): Julian Lincoln Simon The Ultimate Resource 2 (Paperback, Revised)
Julian Lincoln Simon
R1,873 R1,705 Discovery Miles 17 050 Save R168 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Arguing that the ultimate resource is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit, Julian Simon led a vigorous challenge to conventional beliefs about scarcity of energy and natural resources, pollution of the environment, the effects of immigration, and the "perils of overpopulation." The comprehensive data, careful quantitative research, and economic logic contained in the first edition of "The Ultimate Resource" questioned widely held professional judgments about the threat of overpopulation, and Simon's celebrated bet with Paul Ehrlich about resource prices in the 1980s enhanced the public attention--both pro and con--that greeted this controversial book.

Now Princeton University Press presents a revised and expanded edition of "The Ultimate Resource." The new volume is thoroughly updated and provides a concise theory for the observed trends: Population growth and increased income put pressure on supplies of resources. This increases prices, which provides opportunity and incentive for innovation. Eventually the innovative responses are so successful that prices end up below what they were before the shortages occurred. The book also tackles timely issues such as the supposed rate of species extinction, the "vanishing farmland crisis," and the wastefulness of coercive recycling.

In Simon's view, the key factor in natural and world economic growth is our capacity for the creation of new ideas and contributions to knowledge. The more people alive who can be trained to help solve the problems that confront us, the faster we can remove obstacles, and the greater the economic inheritance we shall bequeath to our descendants. In conjunction with the size of the educated population, the key constraint on human progress is the nature of the economic-political system: talented people need economic freedom and security to bring their talents to fruition.

The Writing of Where - Graffiti and the Production of Writing Spaces (Paperback): Charles N. Lesh The Writing of Where - Graffiti and the Production of Writing Spaces (Paperback)
Charles N. Lesh
R911 Discovery Miles 9 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In The Writing of Where, Charles Lesh examines how graffiti writers in Boston remake various spaces within and across the city. The spaces readers will encounter in this book are not just meaningful venues of writing, but also outcomes of writing itself: social spaces not just where writing happens but created because writing happens. Lesh contends that these graffiti spaces reinvent the writing landscape of the city and its public relationship with writing. Each chapter introduces readers to different writing spaces: from bold and broadly visible spots along the highway to bridge underpasses seldom seen by non-writers; from inconspicuous notebooks writers call "bibles" to freight yards and model trains; from abandoned factories to benches where writers view trains. Between each chapter, readers will find "community interludes," responses to the preceding chapters from some of the graffiti writers who worked on this project. By working closely with writers engaged in the production of these spaces, as well as drawing on work invested in questions of geography, publics, and writing, Lesh identifies new models of community engagement and articulates a framework for the spatiality of the public work of writing and writing studies.

Housing in 21st-Century Australia - People, Practices and Policies (Hardcover, New Ed): Rae Dufty-jones, Dallas Rogers Housing in 21st-Century Australia - People, Practices and Policies (Hardcover, New Ed)
Rae Dufty-jones, Dallas Rogers
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over the last two decades new and significant demographic, economic, social and environmental changes and challenges have shaped the production and consumption of housing in Australia and the policy settings that attempt to guide these processes. These changes and challenges, as outlined in this book, are many and varied. While these issues are new they raise timeless questions around affordability, access, density, quantity, type and location of housing needed in Australian towns and cities. The studies presented in this text also provide a unique insight into a range of housing production, consumption and policy issues that, while based in Australia, have implications that go beyond this national context. For instance how do suburban-based societies adjust to the realities of aging populations, anthropogenic climate change and the significant implications such change has for housing? How has policy been translated and assembled in specific national contexts? Similarly, what are the significantly different policy settings the production and consumption of housing in a post-Global Financial Crisis period require? Framed in this way this book accounts for and responds to some of the key housing issues of the 21st century.

Rural America in a Globalizing World - Problems and Prospects for the 2010's (Paperback): Conner Bailey, Leif Jensen Rural America in a Globalizing World - Problems and Prospects for the 2010's (Paperback)
Conner Bailey, Leif Jensen; Elizabeth Ransom
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This fourth Rural Sociological Society decennial volume provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010's, closely reflecting upon the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of neoliberal ideology upon policy, politics, and power in rural areas. The chapters in this volume represent the expertise of an influential group of scholars in rural sociology and related social sciences. Its five sections address the changing structure of North American agriculture, natural resources and the environment, demographics, diversity, and quality of life in rural communities.

Bodies of Evidence - Reconstructing History through Skeletal Analysis (Paperback): Anne L. Grauer Bodies of Evidence - Reconstructing History through Skeletal Analysis (Paperback)
Anne L. Grauer
R3,903 Discovery Miles 39 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A group of contributors highlight advances made in paleopathology and demography through the analyses of historic cemeteries. These advancements include associations of documentary evidence with skeletal evaluations, insights into history gained through the use of skeletal analyses when no documentation exists and applications of new evaluative techniques. Provides a glimpse into the problems faced by researchers embarking on the excavation and/or analysis of historic human remains.

Secular Cycles (Hardcover): Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov Secular Cycles (Hardcover)
Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov
R1,374 R1,266 Discovery Miles 12 660 Save R108 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong expansionist phases followed by periods of state failure, endemic sociopolitical instability, and territorial loss. Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefedov explore the dynamics and causal connections between such demographic, economic, and political variables in agrarian societies and offer detailed explanations for these long-term oscillations--what the authors call secular cycles.

"Secular Cycles" elaborates and expands upon the demographic-structural theory first advanced by Jack Goldstone, which provides an explanation of long-term oscillations. This book tests that theory's specific and quantitative predictions by tracing the dynamics of population numbers, prices and real wages, elite numbers and incomes, state finances, and sociopolitical instability. Turchin and Nefedov study societies in England, France, and Russia during the medieval and early modern periods, and look back at the Roman Republic and Empire. Incorporating theoretical and quantitative history, the authors examine a specific model of historical change and, more generally, investigate the utility of the dynamical systems approach in historical applications.

An indispensable and groundbreaking resource for a wide variety of social scientists, "Secular Cycles" will interest practitioners of economic history, historical sociology, complexity studies, and demography.

The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics (Hardcover): Gustaf Arrhenius, Krister Bykvist, Tim Campbell, Elizabeth Finneron-Burns The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics (Hardcover)
Gustaf Arrhenius, Krister Bykvist, Tim Campbell, Elizabeth Finneron-Burns
R4,273 Discovery Miles 42 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics presents up-to-date theoretical analyses of various problems associated with the moral standing of future people and animals in current decision-making. Future people pose an especially hard problem for our current decision-making, since their number and their identities are not fixed but depend on the choices the present generation makes. Do we make the world better by creating more people with good lives? What do we owe future generations in terms of justice? How should burdens and benefits be shared across generations so that justice prevails? These questions are philosophically difficult and important, but also directly relevant to many practical decisions and policies. Climate change policy provides an example, as the increasing global temperature will kill some people and prevent many others from ever existing. Many other policies also influence the size and make-up of future populations both directly and indirectly, for example those concerning family planning, child support, and prioritization in health-care. If we are to adequately assess these policies, we must be able to determine the value of differently sized populations. The essays in this handbook shed light on the value of population change and the nature of our obligations to future generations. It brings together world-leading philosophers to introduce readers to some of the paradoxes of population ethics, challenge some fundamental assumptions that may be taken for granted in the debate about the value of population change, and apply these problems and assumptions to real-world decisions.

Figures of the Future - Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change (Hardcover): Michael Rodriguez-Muniz Figures of the Future - Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change (Hardcover)
Michael Rodriguez-Muniz
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An in-depth look at how U.S. Latino advocacy groups are using ethnoracial demographic projections to bring about political change in the present For years, newspaper headlines, partisan speeches, academic research, and even comedy routines have communicated that the United States is undergoing a profound demographic transformation-one that will purportedly change the "face" of the country in a matter of decades. But the so-called browning of America, sociologist Michael Rodriguez-Muniz contends, has less to do with the complexion of growing populations than with past and present struggles shaping how demographic trends are popularly imagined and experienced. Offering an original and timely window into these struggles, Figures of the Future explores the population politics of national Latino civil rights groups. Based on eight years of ethnographic and qualitative research, spanning both the Obama and Trump administrations, this book investigates how several of the most prominent of these organizations-including UnidosUS (formerly NCLR), the League of United Latin American Citizens, and Voto Latino-have mobilized demographic data about the Latino population in dogged pursuit of political recognition and influence. In census promotions, get-out-the-vote campaigns, and policy advocacy, this knowledge has been infused with meaning, variously serving as future-oriented sources of inspiration, emblems for identification, and weapons for contestation. At the same time, Rodriguez-Muniz considers why these political actors have struggled to translate this demographic growth into tangible political gain and how concerns about white backlash have affected how they forecast demographic futures. Figures of the Future looks closely at the politics surrounding ethnoracial demographic changes and their rising influence in U.S. public debate and discourse.

A Cultural History of Genocide (Book): Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey A Cultural History of Genocide (Book)
Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey
R2,454 Discovery Miles 24 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Cultural History of Genocide (Book): Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey A Cultural History of Genocide (Book)
Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey
R2,454 Discovery Miles 24 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Cultural History of Genocide (Book): Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey A Cultural History of Genocide (Book)
Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey
R2,454 Discovery Miles 24 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Cultural History of Genocide (Book): Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey A Cultural History of Genocide (Book)
Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey
R2,454 Discovery Miles 24 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Cultural History of Genocide (Book): Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey A Cultural History of Genocide (Book)
Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey
R2,454 Discovery Miles 24 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Cultural History of Genocide (Book): Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey A Cultural History of Genocide (Book)
Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey
R2,454 Discovery Miles 24 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Our Shrinking Planet (Paperback): M. Livi Bacci Our Shrinking Planet (Paperback)
M. Livi Bacci
R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers but the fact that growth will be highly uneven. Whereas rich countries will see aging populations with little growth, populations in poor countries will double or even triple, with a much higher percentage of young people. Against this backdrop, demographer Massimo Livi Bacci examines the implications of this disproportionate demographic development for domestic social stability, international migration flows, the balance of power among nations and the natural environment. Covering 10,000 years of human history, from the beginning of the Stone Age to the present, Livi Bacci shows how the space available for every inhabitant of the planet has decreased by a factor of a thousand. Limits to the world's capacity which once seemed a remote issue are now among the most pressing issues we face, and the need to create effective global mechanisms for sustainable development is now more urgent than ever. Going beyond the demographic data to tackle questions concerning the environment, sustainability and economic development, Our Shrinking Planet will be an invaluable text for students and scholars across the social sciences, as well as for any reader concerned by the moral and ethical implications of an ever more crowded planet.

Rebel Richmond - Life and Death in the Confederate Capital (Hardcover): Stephen V Ash Rebel Richmond - Life and Death in the Confederate Capital (Hardcover)
Stephen V Ash
R979 R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Save R182 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence. A remarkable drama unfolded in the months that followed. The city's population exploded, its economy was deranged, and its government and citizenry clashed desperately over resources to meet daily needs while a mighty enemy army laid siege. Journalists, officials, and everyday residents recorded these events in great detail, and the Confederacy's foes and friends watched closely from across the continent and around the world. In Rebel Richmond, Stephen V. Ash vividly evokes life in Richmond as war consumed the Confederate capital. He guides readers from the city's alleys, homes, and shops to its churches, factories, and halls of power, uncovering the intimate daily drama of a city transformed and ultimately destroyed by war. Drawing on the stories and experiences of civilians and soldiers, slaves and masters, refugees and prisoners, merchants and laborers, preachers and prostitutes, the sick and the wounded, Ash delivers a captivating new narrative of the Civil War's impact on a city and its people.

The economics of population - Key Modern Writings (Hardcover): Julian L. Simon The economics of population - Key Modern Writings (Hardcover)
Julian L. Simon
R14,268 R2,001 Discovery Miles 20 010 Save R12,267 (86%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This comprehensive two volume set includes the most important articles and papers on the subject written since World War II. The main emphasis is on the effects of demographic change but the key modern writings on the determinants of population change are also included.The opening section of Volume I traces the development of modern thought on the connections between population growth and economic development. The following section looks in particular at the effect of population density on agricultural practices, and the final section deals with population growth and the availability of natural resources. Volume II opens with a further section on the effects of population density, including its impact on infrastructure and on the size and productivity of cities, and its consequences in the Third World. There follows a brief section on formal theories, including models of technical progress. Finally the determinants of population growth are explored in various studies on the economics of mortality and the correlation between economic conditions and fertility.

Analyzing Contemporary Fertility (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Robert Schoen Analyzing Contemporary Fertility (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Robert Schoen
R2,832 Discovery Miles 28 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited volume offers state-of-the-art research on the dynamics of contemporary fertility by examining the implications of the economic and social forces that are driving the rapid change in fertility behavior, and the changing context, determinants, and measurement of contemporary human reproduction. The volume explores new theoretical avenues that seek to incorporate uncertainty, examine social contagion effects, and explain the rise in childlessness. Reproductive attitudes are re-examined in chapters that deal with models of parenthood and with the persistence of race-ethnic-nativity differences. A new and important subject of multi-partner fertility is also described by examining it in the context of total fertility and from the usually neglected perspective of men. The impact of divorce on fertility, the measurement of childlessness and the postponement of first births, developments in assortative mating and fertility, and current patterns of interracial fertility are also addressed in this volume. By combining up-to-date research spanning the entire field to illuminate contemporary developments, the book is a valuable source for demographers, sociologists, economists, and all those interested in understanding fertility in today's world.

Well-Intentioned Whiteness - Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City (Paperback): Chhaya Kolavalli Well-Intentioned Whiteness - Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City (Paperback)
Chhaya Kolavalli
R959 Discovery Miles 9 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book documents how whiteness can take up space in U.S. cities and policies through well-intentioned progressive policy agendas that support green urbanism. Through in-depth ethnographic research in Kansas City, Chhaya Kolavalli explores how urban food projects-central to the city's approach to green urbanism-are conceived and implemented and how they are perceived by residents of "food deserts," those intended to benefit from these projects. Through her analysis, Kolavalli examines the narratives and histories that mostly white local food advocates are guided by and offers an alternative urban history of Kansas City-one that centers the contributions of Black and brown residents to urban prosperity. She also highlights how displacement of communities of color, through green development, has historically been a key urban development strategy in the city. Well-Intentioned Whiteness shows how a myopic focus on green urbanism, as a solution to myriad urban "problems," ends up reinforcing racial inequity and uplifting structural whiteness. In this context, fine-grained analysis of how whiteness takes up space in our cities-even through progressive policy agendas-is more important. Kolavalli examines this process intimately and, in so doing, fleshes out our understanding of how racial inequities can be (re)created by everyday urban actors.

The Dying City - Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear (Hardcover): Brian L Tochterman The Dying City - Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear (Hardcover)
Brian L Tochterman
R2,765 Discovery Miles 27 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this eye-opening cultural history, Brian Tochterman examines competing narratives that shaped post-World War II New York City. As a sense of crisis rose in American cities during the 1960s and 1970s, a period defined by suburban growth and deindustrialization, no city was viewed as in its death throes more than New York. Feeding this narrative of the dying city was a wide range of representations in film, literature, and the popular press--representations that ironically would not have been produced if not for a city full of productive possibilities as well as challenges. Tochterman reveals how elite culture producers, planners and theorists, and elected officials drew on and perpetuated the fear of death to press for a new urban vision. It was this narrative of New York as the dying city, Tochterman argues, that contributed to a burgeoning and broad anti-urban political culture hostile to state intervention on behalf of cities and citizens. Ultimately, the author shows that New York's decline--and the decline of American cities in general--was in part a self-fulfilling prophecy bolstered by urban fear and the new political culture nourished by it.

Life's Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction (Paperback): Mitchell Life's Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction (Paperback)
Mitchell
R631 Discovery Miles 6 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Life's Work" is a study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era. The volume blurs the heavily drawn boundaries between production and reproduction, showing through case studies of migration, education and domesticity how the practices of everyday life challenge these categorical distinctions.
New and innovative study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era.
Investigates changing conceptions of subjectivity, national identity and modernity.
Focuses on both theoretical and practical issues.
Includes case studies on migration, education and domesticity.

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