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Boomtown : runaway globalisation on the Queensland coast / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
Author
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
[Place of publication not identified] PLUTO Press, 2018.
Description
1 online resource
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Available Online
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Subject(s)
Globalization
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Australia
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Gladstone (Qld.).
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Gladstone (Qld.)
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Economic conditions
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Gladstone (Qld.)
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Social conditions
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Summary note
An anthropological study of a community 'marinated' in fossil fuels, fraught by ambivalence and conflict.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; Prologue: The High Point of Extractive Industrialism; Part I: Citius, Altius, Fortius; 1. A City No Longer in Waiting; 2. Australian Identity and its Double Binds; 3. Change in Their Bones; 4. The Boomtown Syndrome and the Treadmill Paradox; Part II: Clashing Scales; 5. Green Voices; 6. Dredging the Harbour; 7. Slow-Burning Overheating at the East End Mine; 8. The Demise of Targinnie; 9. Clashing Scales: Globalisation, as We Know It; Epilogue: a Boomtown in Decline.
Appendix 1: Anna Hitchcock's Submission Regarding the Further Expansion of the State Development Area in Gladstone in 2014Appendix 2: Letter to Coordinator-General from Cheryl Watson; Bibliography; Index.
ISBN
9781786803061 ((electronic bk.))
1786803062 ((electronic bk.))
0745338267
9780745338262
OCLC
1045668474
International Article Number
9780745338262
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