Rob Cover

Population, Mobility and Belonging (eBook, PDF)

Understanding Population Concepts in Media, Culture and Society

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on media, cultural and social theory approaches, this book takes a fresh look at the concept of 'population', focusing on the ways in which the concept governs ways of thinking about identities and belonging; overpopulation and underpopulation; otherness; and political concepts of 'forgotten people'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429590719
• Artikelnr.: 57872010

Autorenporträt

Rob Cover is Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne Australia. He is the author of Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives?, Vulnerability and Exposure: Footballer Scandals, Masculine Identity and Ethics, Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Gender and Relationships in a Digital Era, Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self and Flirting in the Era of #MeToo: Negotiating Intimacy. He is co-editor of the anthology Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Population as a Social, Media and Cultural Concept Part 1:
Population, Identity and Governance in Public Debates and (Inter)national
Policy 2. Fertility Promotion, Power and Contemporary Eugenics 3. Crowded
Concepts and the Politics of the Big Nation 4. Population and Identity
Part 2: Popular Culture, Population Size and the Composition of Peoples 5.
Overpopulation in Visual Representation 6. Underpopulation and Apocalyptic
Narratives 7. Genetics, Population Purity and the 'Race of Devils' Part
Three: Ethics for Belonging to a Population 8. The 'Forgotten' People 9.
Bodies, Racialised Populations and Practices of Othering 10. Attitudes of
Welcome: Ethics of Cohabitation and Sustainability