Boomtown : runaway globalisation on the Queensland coast / / Thomas Hylland Eriksen |
Autore | Eriksen Thomas Hylland |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Pluto Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (243 pages) |
Disciplina | 303.482 |
Soggetto topico | Globalization - Australia - Gladstone (Qld.) |
ISBN |
1-78680-307-0
1-78680-306-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796949003321 |
Eriksen Thomas Hylland | ||
London : , : Pluto Press, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Boomtown : runaway globalisation on the Queensland coast / / Thomas Hylland Eriksen |
Autore | Eriksen Thomas Hylland |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Pluto Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (243 pages) |
Disciplina | 303.482 |
Soggetto topico | Globalization - Australia - Gladstone (Qld.) |
ISBN |
1-78680-307-0
1-78680-306-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807985703321 |
Eriksen Thomas Hylland | ||
London : , : Pluto Press, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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