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Population Studies and Development from Theory to Fieldwork

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Editors:
  1. Véronique Petit

    1. CEPED, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France

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  • Brings methodological and conceptual innovations to the analysis of population and development
  • Provides a theoretical, conceptual and methodological framework
  • Provides an unique interdisciplinary approach

Part of the book series: Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development (DTSD, volume 7)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. A Theory and Its Application

    • Véronique Petit
    Pages 1-6

  3. A Theory for Developing Countries

    • Yves Charbit, Véronique Petit
    Pages 7-39

  4. Responding to Poverty in Rural Guinea

    • Aurélie Godard-Marceau, Barbara Meffe, Véronique Petit
    Pages 41-58

  5. Socioeconomic Strategies and Ethnic Dynamics in Maritime Guinea

    • Véronique Petit, Aurélie Godard-Marceau
    Pages 59-74

  6. Education Confronted by Rural Poverty

    • Alhassane Balde
    Pages 75-87

  7. The Motors of Change in Seismic Risk Management Policy in Turkey: The Multidimensional Nature of Response

    • Nazan Cömert-Baechler
    Pages 89-108

  8. Sociodemographic Pressure on Land in Madagascar

    • Mustapha Omrane
    Pages 109-132

  9. Female Genital Mutilations and Population Policy in Djibouti

    • Véronique Petit
    Pages 133-147

  10. The Policy of Reducing Provincial Inequalities in New Caledonia

    • Laure Hadj
    Pages 149-172

  11. Individuals, Families and Development Policy in Reunion

    • Franck Temporal
    Pages 173-191

  12. The Failure of Family Planning in Mauritian “Cités”

    • Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby
    Pages 193-204

  13. Young People’s Ambiguous and Complex Responses on HIV/AIDS in Cameroon

    • Lucas Tchetgnia
    Pages 205-224

  14. From Research to Action

    • Yves Charbit, Véronique Petit
    Pages 225-236
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About this book

This book addresses major population and development issues: fertility and reproductive health, migrations, gender, education, poverty and inequalities. To that aim it revisits and considerably enlarges Kingsley Davis’ 1963 theory of change and response, using interdisciplinary methodologies. On the basis of four decades of field research (1985-2015), it questions the rationality of the actors, how culture shapes socio-demographic behaviours, in a context of modernity and globalisation. More specifically, it casts new light on the interactions of individuals, families, networks and local communities with the State and its population policy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • CEPED, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France

    Véronique Petit

About the editor

After graduating in social anthropology and demography, Véronique Petit became a Professor of demography at the University Paris Descartes. She belongs to the Centre Population and Development. Specialized in demography of developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her research works concerned mainly two fields research: reproductive health (contraception, female genital mutilations, population policies) and international migrations (remittances, return migrations, mental health of migrants). She is the chief editor of the major francophone revue on international migrations, the Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales. She also contributes to promote the new field of anthropological demography. She had already published with Springer a book about the stake of interdisciplinarity in social sciences: Counting Population. Understanding societies (2013).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Population Studies and Development from Theory to Fieldwork

  • Editors: Véronique Petit

  • Series Title: Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61774-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61773-2Published: 09 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87159-2Published: 28 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61774-9Published: 30 October 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2543-0041

  • Series E-ISSN: 2543-0068

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 236

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Demography, Methodology of the Social Sciences

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