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Introduction: The rural future in Australia and New Zealand: mapping the terrain of rural change / Francesca Merlan and David Raftery -- Rurality and rural space: the 'policy effect' of the Common Agricultural Policy in the Borders of Scotland / John Gray -- Has Australia's administrative heritage maintained a culture of agrarian dependency? / Ian Gray -- Role of agrarian sentiment in Australian rural policy / Linda Botterill -- Wildlife, wilderness and the politics of alternative land use: an Australian ethnography / Adrian Peace -- Land tenure and identity in the New Zealand high country / Carolyn Morris -- Moving to the country for a graduated retirement: constructing new meaningful lives / Lesley Hunt -- Intergenerational transitions in rural Western Australia: an issue for sustainability? / Daniela Stehlik -- Under the regulatory radar? Nanotechnologies and their impacts for rural Australia / Kristen Lyons and Gyorgy Scrinis -- Conclusion / Francesca Merlan and David Raftery. |
| Summary |
A key, intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is farming. The corresponding re-distribution of population has typically resulted in a net population loss to rural areas, and diversification of rural activity. The corporatization and technological modification of food production has prompted new policy challenges, and has bound rural and urban populations together in new relationships articulated in moral discourses of custodianship, food safety, and sustainability. Contributors to this volume came together in the attempt to stimulate collective insight into trends of rural change in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The first two countries have been characterised by avowedly `neoliberal' rural policy - with considerable departures from it in practice; Europe, on the other hand, by a mix of policy measures which attempt to integrate land management and sustainability, diversification and maintenance of a competitive farming sector within an overarching policy framework more overtly, though only partially, oriented towards sustaining rural society. Aiming to build on research relating to the character of rural transitions, this volume offers substantive and critical contributions to the understanding of the sources of unpredictability, instability, and continuity, that underpin rural transition. The papers explore changes and continuities in policy, the governance of rural spaces, technological developments relating to rural areas and populations, and social forms of subjectivation and participation in increasingly diverse rural settings. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
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Rural conditions.
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Rural conditions. |
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Sociology, Rural.
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Sociology, Rural. |
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Rural development.
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Rural development. |
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Social policy.
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Social policy. |
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Electronic book.
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Ebook.
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Electronic books.
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Merlan, Francesca.
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Raftery, David.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tracking rural change. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2009 9781921536526 (DLC) 2009512261 (OCoLC)316822789 |
| ISBN |
9781921536533 (electronic book) |
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1921536535 (electronic book) |
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9781921536526 |
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1921536527 |
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