{"product_id":"boomtown-thomas-hylland-eriksen-9780745338262","title":"Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast","description":"Sitting 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e Writ large in \u003ci\u003eBoomtown\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Hylland Eriksen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745338267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745338262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Thomas Hylland Eriksen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437994062079,"sku":"9780745338262","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e285fbd7-74ec-4882-b97b-6c83dbc348f3.jpg?v=1777168074","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/boomtown-thomas-hylland-eriksen-9780745338262","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}