A Sociology of Place in Australia Farming, Change and Lived Experience

She explores the dynamic interplay between state policy and lived experience, showing that, in the final analysis, it is the state that calls the shots.’ —Emeritus Professor Judith Brett, La Trobe University ‘Baker presents a vivid and original account of land, livelihood, and loss in rural Australi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baker, Claire
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2021, 2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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