ABSTRACT
Chapter 1’s review of the history of Population Geography advocated scholarship continuing the trajectory that has focused increasingly on emplacing the key demographic expressions of births, deaths and migration within the diverse currents of everyday life. Demographic practices must be placed within broader contextual understandings and explanations of lives across space. This call for a more fully relational Population Geography, besides providing rounded understanding and explanation, may also help to re-unite Population Geography into a more coherent sub-discipline, reinforcing its position within Human Geography as a whole.
