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Demography for the Public: Literary Representations of Population Research and Policy

机译:人口统计:人口研究和政策的文学表现

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This article explores the idea of what may be called Public Demography, wherein the practitioners and interpreters of the discipline of population studies inform (and sometimes inflame) the popular discourse on population-related matters. It looks at the representation of demographic research and policies in one form of public engagement, namely fiction - literature being an important way of transmitting the substance of a technical field of study to a lay public. Reviewing a sample of fictional writing that is clearly derived from a specialized knowledge of the subject of demography, the article finds it useful to classify this genre into two groups. The works in the first group tend to reproduce or reiterate the mainstream assumptions underlying the academic discipline, while those in the second group seem to take on board more recent criticisms of these assumptions, sometimes in unexpected ways. Readers, however, seem to react much more readily to those works that repeat some of the 'bad' habits of the discipline.
机译:本文探讨了所谓的“公共人口统计学”的概念,其中人口研究学科的实践者和解释者为人们提供了有关人口相关问题的流行语汇(有时是煽动性话题)。它以一种公众参与的形式(即小说)着眼于人口统计研究和政策的代表-文献是将技术研究领域的内容传递给非专业公众的重要方式。回顾明显来自人口学专业知识的虚构作品样本,文章发现将这一类型分为两类非常有用。第一组中的作品倾向于再现或重申基础学科的主流假设,而第二组中的作品似乎接受了对这些假设的最新批评,有时是以出乎意料的方式。但是,读者似乎更容易对那些重复该学科“坏”习惯的作品做出反应。

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    《Development and change》 |2014年第5期|813-837|共25页
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    Alaka M. Basu;

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    Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University, 222 Tower Road, Academic Surge A-123, Ithaca, NY 14853;

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