Book: “Migration Theory: talking across disciplines”
4th edition, Caroline B Bretell and James F Holland. Routledge, New York, 2023 DOI 10.4324/9781003121015
by: Caroline B Bretell and James F Holland
So, I have just finished reading page 102 of this book, the middle of chapter 2 on Demography by Francois Heran.
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I have been very intrigued by understanding the complexity of demographics and its study. Many of the concepts and definitions have evolved over time.
On page 95 Heran discusses the “panoply of censuses and surveys’. We forget that the naming of stars and constellations didn’t reach a consensus until recently and cataloguing of objects in the sky is a panoply of sometimes contradictory findings.
About the Author:
Roger F. Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, with a specialty in extreme and ultraviolet astronomy, space instrumentation and optics. He served as director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence and was NASA Principal Investigator for the Extreme Ultraviolet Satellite project at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is also a publisher and editor in the new emerging research fields that connect the sciences and engineering to the arts, design and humanities. Since 1982, he has served as Executive Editor of the Leonardo Publications at MIT Press. He founded, and serves on the board of two nonprofits, ISAST in San Francisco and OLATS in Paris, which advocate and document the work of artists involved in contemporary science and technology.
He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology and Professor of Physics, at the University of Texas at Dallas and Directeur de Recherche for the CNRS in France. He serves as the Associate Director of ATEC, and founded the ArtSciLab in the ATEC program fall 2013.