@article{ref1,
title="Population geography II: Mortality, premature death, and the ordering of life",
journal="Progress in human geography",
year="2014",
author="Tyner, James A.",
volume="39",
number="3",
pages="360-373",
abstract="The geographic study of mortality is enjoying a renaissance. This is indicated by the growing number of studies on necropolitics, thanatopolitics, 'deathscapes', and the inequalities of premature death. Population geographers, however, have contributed little to the broader theoretical conceptualization - and spatiality - of mortality. Previously, I encouraged population geographers to reflect on the survivability of vulnerable populations. In this second progress report, I extend this focus through a reconsideration of mortality from the standpoint of survivability. As a discipline, population geography has long engaged with the concept of 'premature' death; here it is indicated how this concept is intimately bound to the modernist ordering of life that dominates our contemporary understanding of bodies and populations. First, I reflect on the embodiment of mortality, and this is followed by a critical engagement with the 'bio-logics' of life and death. I maintain that population geography is well positioned to contribute to ongoing debates regarding who lives, who dies, and who decides.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0309-1325",
doi="10.1177/0309132514527037",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132514527037"
}