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Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780745338262)
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xSitting next to the Great Barrier Reef, steeped in coal and gas, the industrial boomtown of Gladstone, Australia embodies many of the contradictions of the "overheated" world: prosperous yet polluted, growing and developing, yet always on the precipice of crisis.
Capturing Gladstone at the peak of its accelerated growth in 2013-14, Thomas Hylland Eriksen dissects here the boomtown phenomenon in all its profound ambivalence. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book examines local identity, family life, infrastructure, and local services and explores the tensions and resentments surrounding migrant workers.
Writ large in Boomtown are the clashes of scale at the heart of the town's contradictions, where the logic of big industry and the state compete with those of the individual and the local community and ecology, crystallizing the current crisis of political legitimacy that is unfurling all over the world.
Author: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
ISBN-10: 0745338267
ISBN-13: 9780745338262
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2018
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.90d
Capturing Gladstone at the peak of its accelerated growth in 2013-14, Thomas Hylland Eriksen dissects here the boomtown phenomenon in all its profound ambivalence. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book examines local identity, family life, infrastructure, and local services and explores the tensions and resentments surrounding migrant workers.
Writ large in Boomtown are the clashes of scale at the heart of the town's contradictions, where the logic of big industry and the state compete with those of the individual and the local community and ecology, crystallizing the current crisis of political legitimacy that is unfurling all over the world.
Author: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
ISBN-10: 0745338267
ISBN-13: 9780745338262
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2018
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.90d
By Thomas Hylland Eriksen
xThomas Hylland Eriksen is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo and former president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He is the author of numerous classics of anthropology, including What is Anthropology? and Small Places, Large Issues, both also published by Pluto Press.
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