Full Description
Sustained population studies of fertility over the last two centuries have come to question the extent to which trends in low fertility may be understood as universal. Improved knowledge of variations within countries and between communities has revealed heterogeneity in reproductive behaviours at sub-national levels - whether before, during, or after the so-called 'fertility transition'. Population studies have also come to give more attention to the role of structural inequalities, including around family, class, gender, and health, and of people's diverse and changing reproductive strategies that underpin varying low fertilities at sub-national levels.
This collection develops compositional demography approaches to address the advancements in sub-national variations. It brings together studies in anthropology, demography, history, and sociology, that have together developed an analytical lens for examining the low fertility phenomenon not as a mere average but as a composite of different reproductive behaviours and regimes. The volume is among the first to collect historical patterns of low fertilities and their underlying structural conditions in a long-term comparative perspective. It is also the first to detail comprehensively the compositional demography approach, which can be also applied to the study of various demographic phenomena around fertility, mortality, ageing, migration, and other population issues.
Contents
List of Figures Notes on Contributors
Introduction PHILIP KREAGER AND YULIYA HILEVYCH
Part I The Descent from Macro: Comparing Regional Population Distributions
A Spatial Approach to European Fertility Trends since 2008 NICHOLAS CAMPISI
Macro-Economic Conditions and Regional Variation in the Russian Total Fertility Rollercoaster, 1992-2019 MICHAEL ZASLAVSKY, TED GERBER, AND SUNNEE BILLINGSLEY
Forerunners, Space, and the Role of Religion during the Fertility Transition in England and Wales, 1851-1911 STEPHANIE THIEHOFF
Continuity and Change in Spatial Patterns of Fertility: The Case of London HANNALIIS JAADLA, ALICE REID, EILIDH GARRETT AND KEVIN SCHÜRER
Part II The Rich Potential of Meso: Synergies from Combined Top-Down and Bottom-Up Population Thinking
Low Fertilities before the Fertility Transition: Childlessness and Small Families in a 19th-century Dutch Province HILDE BRAS
When Marriage Becomes Unattainable: A Cohort Analysis of Fertility in Rural South Africa HANNAH GARDNER
Part III Understanding Communication Communities 7. A Different View on 'Low' Fertility: Perceptions of Ideal Family Size and Women's Reproductive Pathways across Generations in Central Oman MAREN JORDAN
Postponement of Subsequent Childbirth: Fertility Decline under Conditions of Uncertainty in Botswana and Lesotho ASTRID BOCHOW AND LENA KROEKER
Crisis-Led Fertility Declines? Theorising the Influence of Compounding Crises and Structural Violence on Low Fertility in South Africa KAMMILA NAIDOO
Gendered Fertility: Reproductive Desires and Practices in Two Neighbourhoods in Contemporary Havana HEIDI HӒRKÖNEN
Intergenerational Support for Childcare: An Essential for Making the Second-child Decision in the Two-Child Policy Era SHIBEI NI
"In this generation, they mostly had one child": Reproductive Norms and Reproductive Uncertainties of One-Child Families a the Onset of Low Fertility in Soviet Ukraine YULIYA HILEVYCH
Conclusions and Outstanding Issues PHILIP KREAGER AND YULIYA HILEVYCH
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