1st Edition

Population, Mobility and Belonging Understanding Population Concepts in Media, Culture and Society

By Rob Cover Copyright 2020
236 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.