A sociology of place in Australia : farming, change and lived experience

A sociology of place in Australia : farming, change and lived experience / Claire Baker.

Baker has written a closely observed and perceptive study of profound transformations in rural Australia since World War Two as soldier settler family farms have been replaced by capital-intensive agribusinesses. She explores the dynamic interplay between state policy and lived experience, showing t...

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Main Author: Baker, Claire (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Subjects:
Agriculture > Australia > History.
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Australia.
Agriculture > Social aspects > Australia.
Agriculture
Agriculture > Economic aspects
Agriculture > Social aspects
Australia
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1: Introduction: Goolhi and the sociology of place in Australia
  • 2: The embedded market: Place, space, land and the self
  • 3: Groundwork: The social, political and cultural history of land settlement in Australia
  • 4: Dispossession/Possession: Prologue to Moment One
  • 5: Moment One The lived experience of soldier settlement at Goolhi
  • 6: The Luck of the Long Boom: Epilogue to Moment One
  • 7: Unpicking the stitches: Dynamics of change
  • 8: Moment Two and the lived experience of economic action at Goolhi
  • 9: Moment Two and its social consequences
  • 10: Conclusions.

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