Boomtown runaway globalisation on the Queensland coast / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
| Author/creator | Eriksen, Thomas Hylland |
| Other author | European Research Council. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Pluto Press, [2018] |
| Description | xxii, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | pt. I CUIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS -- 1. A City No Longer in Waiting -- The First Century -- Queensland Alumina Ltd and Beyond -- The Expanding Port and the LNG Adventure -- Promotion of the Gladstone Region -- 2. Australian Identity and Its Double Binds -- The Cultural Grammar of Australia Day -- Egalitarianism and Inequality -- Diversity, Exclusion and Hierarchy -- Mining and Pastoralism in Australian Identity -- Water and the Double Bind -- 3. Change in Their Bones -- Living Amid Accelerated Change -- The FIFO Issue -- Accelerated Structural Amnesia -- A Module-based Identity -- Ambivalence -- Temporality and the Future -- 4. The Boomtown Syndrome and the Treadmill Paradox -- The Boomtown -- Gladstone as a Boomtown -- Gladstone and Treadmill Capitalism -- pt. II CLASHING SCALES -- 5. Green Voices -- Environmental Ambivalence at the Epicentre -- The Gladstone Conservation Council -- Silencing and Ambivalence -- A Typology of Environmental Engagement -- Scale and Green Activism -- Corporate Social Responsibility: Offsets and Lightning Conductors -- 6. Dredging the Harbour -- Positioned Knowledge and Unequal Power -- The End of Commercial Fishing in Gladstone -- Conflicting Expert Knowledges -- The Bund Wall Scandal -- Trust, Power and Knowledge -- 7. Slow-Burning Overheating at the East End Mine -- The Mine and the Farmers -- The East End Mine Action Group -- Knowledge about Mount Larcom Water -- Scale, Knowledge and Power -- Alec Lucke's Story -- 8. The Demise of Targinnie -- Fruit and Industry -- Shale Oil: The End of Targinnie -- Retrospections -- Scaling Up and Cooling Down -- 9. Clashing Scales: Globalisation, as We Know It. |
| General note | "This book is an outcome of ethnographic research carried out as part of the European Research Council Advanced Grant project 'Overheating: the three crises of gobalisation, or an anthropological history of the early 21st century, ' 'Overheating' for short, running from 2012 to 2017"--Page ix |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022300526 |
| ISBN | 0745338275 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780745338279 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0745338267 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780745338262 (paperback) |
| Standard identifier# | 99978032603 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |