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The sites, spaces and subjects of reproduction are distinctly geographical. Reproductive geographies span different scales - body, home, local, national, global - and movements across space. This book expands our understanding of the socio-cultural and spatial aspects of fertility, pregnancy and birth. The chapters directly address global perspectives, the future of reproductive politics and state-focused approaches to the politicisation of fertility, pregnancy and birth. The book provides up-to-date explorations on the changing landscapes of reproduction, including the expansion of reproductive technologies, such as surrogacy and intrauterine insemination. Contributions in this book focus on phenomenologically-inspired accounts of women's lived experience of pregnancy and birth, the biopolitics of birth and citizenship, the material histories of reproductive tissues as "scientific objects" and engagements with public health and development policy. This is an essential resource for upper-level undergraduates and graduates studying topics such as Sociology, Geographies of Gender, Women's Studies and Anthropology of Health and Medicine.

"Population Geography: Social Justice for a Sustainable World surveys the ways in which geographic approaches may be applied to population issues, exploring how human populations are embedded in natural and social environments. It encourages students to evaluate population issues critically, given that population topics are at the heart of many of today's most contentious subjects. Through introducing students to different lenses of analysis (ecological, economic and social equity), the authors ask students to consider how different perspectives can lead to different conclusions on the same issue. Identifying and tackling today's population problems therefore requires an understanding of these diverging, and sometimes conflicting, perspectives. The text will cover all the key background information critical to any book on population geography (population size, distribution, and composition; fertility, mortality, and migration; population and resources), but will also push students to think critically about the materials they have covered using these twin lenses of sustainability and social justice. In this way, students move beyond simple fact learning towards higher-level skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of materials. This textbook will be a valuable resource for students of human geography, population geography, demography and diaspora studies"--

"Population Geography: Social Justice for a Sustainable World surveys the ways in which geographic approaches may be applied to population issues, exploring how human populations are embedded in natural and social environments. It encourages students to evaluate population issues critically, given that population topics are at the heart of many of today's most contentious subjects. Through introducing students to different lenses of analysis (ecological, economic and social equity), the authors ask students to consider how different perspectives can lead to different conclusions on the same issue. Identifying and tackling today's population problems therefore requires an understanding of these diverging, and sometimes conflicting, perspectives. The text will cover all the key background information critical to any book on population geography (population size, distribution, and composition; fertility, mortality, and migration; population and resources), but will also push students to think critically about the materials they have covered using these twin lenses of sustainability and social justice. In this way, students move beyond simple fact learning towards higher-level skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of materials. This textbook will be a valuable resource for students of human geography, population geography, demography and diaspora studies"--

This paper considers what is at stake in defining and mapping protected areas for conservation. We link issues of power in cartography to themes from political ecology, social natures, and conservation biology literatures to extend our understanding of maps as reflective of, and productive of, power. Reviewing insights from these literatures to consider power asymmetries common to conservation practice, we highlight ways that mapping practices and products reinforce and contribute to such dynamics. Doing so enriches consideration of the power geometries of conservation cartographies by inviting fuller consideration of diverse species and landscapes, as well as enabling discussion of other representational and productive effects of conservation mappings. Once determined, how might conservation maps serve to naturalize certain spaces or boundaries as fixed, or contribute to certain socio-psychological understandings of conservation possibilities or outcomes? In the closing sections, we invoke the idea of 'counter-mapping' to explore strategies that might redress these concerns. Possibilities range from efforts to adapt the form of protected areas to more critical approaches that question the appropriateness of territorial focus and mapping practices for conservation goals. In conclusion, we argue that theorizing power in human, other-than-human, and inter-species contexts is essential to understanding the power geometries of conservation mapping. ; Non UBC ; Reviewed ; Faculty

ABSTRACTThe scale of movement of international students has increased dramatically in the post‐war period, with the United States acting as a major destination owing partly to a good education system and generous funding of graduate studies. Officially, these migrations are expected to be temporary and visa restrictions are applied accordingly; in reality many international students never return to their home countries. Despite the large number of international students in the United States, little research has been done about this group of professional migrants. Using focus group interviews, we investigate the factors that motivate students to stay in the United States or return home on completion of their degrees. We identify three categories of motivating factors: professional, societal, and personal. Among our study participants, professional factors were generally cited as encouraging the students to stay in the United States, while societal and personal factors were more likely to draw them back to their home countries, although wide variations existed among individuals. Our results suggest that certain patterns exist among national groups. These operated in two main ways. First, specific characteristics of the home country (such as difficult political circumstances) provided state‐specific influences on the decision‐making process. Second, the relative weight assigned to each of the three groups of factors appeared to differ among national groups.

In the UK a great deal of attention is currently focused on the potential of the `theories of change' approach to evaluating complex public policy interventions. However, there is still relatively little empirical material describing its application. This article discusses the use of `theories of change' in the national evaluation of English Health Action Zones (HAZs). It locates `theories of change' within the wider context of evaluation approaches and assesses its strengths and weaknesses as an evaluation framework. The article then focuses on a key aspect of complex public policy interventions — cross-sector collaboration. Drawing on data about cross-sector partnerships and community involvement from the English HAZ evaluation, the article explores the contribution of `theories of change' towards examining the building of collaborative capacity in HAZs. The article also describes the `co-research' approach being employed within the national HAZ evaluation. It discusses how this approach can complement the use of `theories of change', contribute to managing change within organizations and communities and facilitate more effective use of evaluation within a local health context.

Introduction: The relationships between graphs, charts, maps and meanings, feelings, engagements / Helen Kennedy and Martin Engebretsen -- Section I Framing data visualization -- Ways of knowing with data visualizations / Jill Walker Rettberg -- Inventorizing, situating, transforming: Social semiotics and data visualization / Giorgia Aiello -- The political significance of data visualization: Four key perspectives / Torgeir Uberg Ncerland -- Section II Living and working with data visualization -- Rain on your radar: Engaging with weather data visualizations as part of everyday routines / Eef Masson and Karin van Es -- Between automation and interpretation: Using data visualization in social media analytics companies / Salla-Maaria Laaksonen and Juho Pääkkonen -- Accessibility of data visualizations: An overview of European statistics institutes / Mikael Snaprud and Andrea Velazquez -- Evaluating data visualization: Broadening the measurements of success / Arran L. Ridley and Christopher Birchall -- Approaching data visualizations as interfaces: An empirical demonstration of how data are imag(in)ed / Daniela van Geenen and Maranke Wieringa -- Visualizing data: A lived experience / Jill Simpson -- Data visualization and transparency in the news / Helen Kennedy, Wibke Weber, and Martin Engebretsen -- Section Ill Data visualization, learning, and literacy -- What is visual-numeric literacy, and how does it work? / Elise Seip Tønnessen - Data visualization literacy: A feminist starting point / Catherine D'Ignazio and Rahul Bhargava -- Is literacy what we need in an unequal data society? / Lulu Pinney -- Multimodal academic argument in data visualization / Arlene Archer and Travis Noakes -- Section IV Data visualization semiotics and aesthetics -- What we talk about when we talk about beautiful data visualizations / Sara Brinch - A multimodal perspective on data visualization / Tuomo Hiippala -- Exploring narrativity in data visualization in journalism / Wibke Weber -- The data epic: Visualization practices for narrating life and death at a distance / Jonathan Gray -- What a line can say: Investigating the semiotic potential of the connecting line in data visualizations / Verena Elisabeth Lechner -- Humanizing data through 'data comics': An introduction to graphic medicine and graphic social science / Aria Alamalhodaei, Alexandra Alberda, and Anna Feigenbaum -- Section V Data visualization and inequalities -- Visualizing diversity: Data deficiencies and semiotic strategies / John P. Wihbey, Sarah] Jackson, Pedro M Cruz, and Brooke Foucault Welles -- What is at stake in data visualization? A feminist critique of the rhetorical power of data visualizations in the media / Rosemary Lucy Hill -- The power of visualization choices: Different images of patterns in space / Britta Ricker, Menno-Jan Kraak, and Yuri Engelhardt -- Making visible politically masked risks: Inspecting unconventional data visualization of the Southeast Asian haze / Anna Berti Suman -- How interactive maps mobilize people in geoactivism / Miren Gutiérrez.

Despite considerable evaluator investment in examining partnership activity in UK public policy initiatives, little attention has been paid to the role of strategy in supporting the generation and harnessing of the resources necessary to collaborate effectively. This paper focuses on one of the first New Labour initiatives – Health Action Zones (HAZ) – and draws on national evaluation findings to delineate local strategies, assess their application in practice and reflect on their contribution to collaborative action.The paper argues that even within nationally constrained policy initiatives there is sufficient flexibility for local actors to select strategies to steer collaborative effort, but these strategies are informed by their operating context and are liable to change in response to experience and changes in context. In addition, the evaluation findings suggest that effective strategies are those which harness collaborative capacity across a range of dimensions. The paper concludes by identifying implications for theory, policy and evaluation.