Boomtown : runaway globalisation on the Queensland coast / / Thomas Hylland Eriksen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807985703321
• Autore: Eriksen Thomas Hylland
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Pluto Press, , 2018
• ISBN: 1-78680-307-0; 1-78680-306-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.482
• Soggetti: Globalization - Australia - Gladstone (Qld.); Gladstone (Qld.) Economic conditions; Gladstone (Qld.) Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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.