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1 online resource |
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; Prologue: The High Point of Extractive Industrialism; Part I: Citius, Altius, Fortius; 1. A City No Longer in Waiting; 2. Australian Identity and its Double Binds; 3. Change in Their Bones; 4. The Boomtown Syndrome and the Treadmill Paradox; Part II: Clashing Scales; 5. Green Voices; 6. Dredging the Harbour; 7. Slow-Burning Overheating at the East End Mine; 8. The Demise of Targinnie; 9. Clashing Scales: Globalisation, as We Know It; Epilogue: a Boomtown in Decline. |
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Appendix 1: Anna Hitchcock's Submission Regarding the Further Expansion of the State Development Area in Gladstone in 2014Appendix 2: Letter to Coordinator-General from Cheryl Watson; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
An anthropological study of a community 'marinated' in fossil fuels, fraught by ambivalence and conflict. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gladstone (Qld.) -- Economic conditions.
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Gladstone (Qld.) -- Social conditions.
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Globalization -- Australia -- Gladstone (Qld.)
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Globalization. |
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Australia. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0745338275 9780745338279 (OCoLC)1014036724 |
| ISBN |
9781786803061 (electronic book) |
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1786803062 (electronic book) |
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0745338275 |
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9780745338279 |
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0745338267 |
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9780745338262 |
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0745338267 |
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9780745338262 |
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9780745338262 |
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