Rurality bites / edited by S. Lockie and L. Bourke
- Bib ID:
- 1497843
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Annandale, N.S.W. : Pluto Press, 2001
- xii, 404 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1864031697 (paperback)
- Summary:
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An overview of the extraordinary social, environmental, political and cultural changes and conflicts sweeping rural Australia. All too often, community decline, environmental degradation and agricultural restructuring are treated as separate issues. This book brings them together to identify what is behind these issues.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Rural Australia: an introduction / L. Bourke and S. Lockie
- 2. Rural sociology perspectives and problems: a potted history / S. Lockie
- 3. 'Out there': spaces, places and border crossings / D. Stehlik
- 4. The rural as urban myth: snack foods and country life / J. Finkelstein and L. Bourke
- 5. Beyond life in 'the bush': Australian rural cultures / I. Gray and E. Phillips
- 6. Bush politics: the rise and fall of the Country/National Party / A. Green
- 7. Power and politics: Power and politics: debate over native title / V. Watson
- 8. One big happy family? Social problems in rural communities / L. Bourke
- 9. The more things change, the more they stay the same: health care in regional Victoria / Y. Collins
- 10. Rural communities / L. Bourke
- 11. Rural community development / B. Cheers and A.E. Luloff
- 12. The collective and individual philosophy of research relating to an indigenous nation / R. Henderson and J. Muir
- 13. Globalising agriculture: structures of constraint for Australian farming / P. McMichael and G. Lawrence
- 14. Industrialised agriculture: agribusiness, input-dependency and vertical integration / D. Burch and R. Rickson
- 15. Getting big and getting out: government policy, self-reliance and farm adjustment / V. Higgins and S. Lockie
- 16. Cultural diversity, economic change and family farming in the Australian sugar industry / J. Elder
- 17. Farming women and the masculinisation of farming practices / A.P. Davidson
- 18. A job of one's own / L. Bryant
- 19. Agriculture and environment / S. Lockie
- 20. Community development management? Landcare in Australia / S. Lockie
- 21. Property rights and natural resource management: tiptoeing round the slumbering dragon / I. Reeve
- 22. Biotechnology to the rescue? Can genetic engineering secure a sustainable future for Australia agriculture? / J. Norton
- 23. Positive futures for rural Australia / S. Lockie.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Cover sub-title: The social and environmental transformation of rural Australia.
- Bibliography: p. [357]-391.
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- Also Titled:
- Rurality bites : the social and environmental transformation of rural Australia.
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2001
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