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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, author.

Contributor:

European Research Council, sponsor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Australia--Gladstone (Qld.).

Ethnology.

Migrant labor--Australia--Gladstone (Qld.).

Migrant labor.

Globalization--Australia--Gladstone (Qld.).

Globalization.

Gladstone (Qld.)--Social conditions.

Gladstone (Qld.).

Gladstone (Qld.)--Economic conditions.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xxii, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2018.

Contents:

Part I Citius, Altius, Fortius

1 A City No Longer in Waiting p. 3

The First Century p. 5

Queensland Alumina Ltd and Beyond p. 9

The Expanding Port and the LNG Adventure p. 11

Promotion of the Gladstone Region p. 17

2 Australian Identity and Its Double Binds p. 20

The Cultural Grammar of Australia Day p. 20

Egalitarianism and Inequality p. 24

Diversity, Exclusion and Hierarchy p. 29

Mining and Pastoralism in Australian Identity p. 35

Water and the Double Bind p. 39

3 Change in Their Bones p. 44

Living Amid Accelerated Change p. 47

The FIFO Issue p. 50

Accelerated Structural Amnesia p. 57

A Module-based Identity p. 61

Ambivalence p. 64

Temporality and the Future p. 67

4 The Boomtown Syndrome and the Treadmill Paradox p. 72

The Boomtown p. 74

Gladstone as a Boomtown p. 77

Gladstone and Treadmill Capitalism p. 98

Part II Clashing Scales

5 Green Voices p. 109

Environmental Ambivalence at the Epicentre p. 111

The Gladstone Conservation Council p. 116

Silencing and Ambivalence p. 120

A Typology of Environmental Engagement p. 122

Scale and Green Activism p. 132

Corporate Social Responsibility: Offsets and Lightning Conductors p. 135

6 Dredging the Harbour p. 145

Positioned Knowledge and Unequal Power p. 149

The End of Commercial Fishing in Gladstone p. 151

Conflicting Expert Knowledges p. 157

The Bund Wall Scandal p. 161

Trust, Power and Knowledge p. 168

7 Slow-Burning Overheating at the East End Mine p. 171

The Mine and the Farmers p. 173

The East End Mine Action Group p. 175

Knowledge about Mount Larcom Water p. 177

Scale, Knowledge and Power p. 183

Alec Lucke's Story p. 186

8 The Demise of Targinnie p. 190

Fruit and Industry p. 191

Shale Oil: The End of Targinnie p. 193

Retrospections p. 199

Scaling Up and Cooling Down p. 212

9 Clashing Scales: Globalisation, as We Know It p. 217.

Notes:

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0745338275

9780745338279

0745338267

9780745338262

OCLC:

1014036724