Abstract :
Population geography, which has been constructed on strong tradition of spatial demography and incorporates various quantitative and qualitative methodologies, goes after bringing a more holistic understanding to the social context, where human movements, regional demographic variability and these population processes take place today. In addition, population geographers are addressing issues with political importance more and more. Population geography within the geography discipline in Turkey has, perhaps, been the weakest branch of Turkish geography within the academic history of 100 years, in terms of general characteristics and academic output performance. This article reviews the development, agenda, debates and future of population geography as a subfield of human geography in the West, on the basis of literature analysis. In addition, opinions of the geographers in Turkey about population and their contributions to the subfield are addressed from a historical perspective. Thus, it is aimed to offer new perspectives and expansions to Turkish geographers, who are interested in population, by assessing the past, present and future of population geography.
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Population geography , progress in population geography , Turkish population geography , Turkish human geography , Glenn Trewartha
