A Future for Regional Australia
Escaping Global Misfortune
Geoffrey Lawrence author Ian Gray author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:31st Jul '01
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This 2001 book interprets the predicament faced by Australia's regional people from their own perspective.
This 2001 book interprets the predicament faced by Australia's regional people from their own perspective and proposes a means by which they can act together to find a secure future under globalisation. The book will be of great interest to all concerned about the future of regional Australia.This 2001 book interprets the predicament faced by Australia's regional people from their own perspective and proposes a means by which they can act together to find a secure future under globalisation. It argues that neoliberalism in combination with its 'real world' effects in economic policy are driving regional Australia further into social, environmental and economic decay. Gray and Lawrence advocate a new kind of regionalism with broad objectives for people to pursue. This takes discussion about rural and regional policies out of the contexts of trade and industry policies and into the realm of the social and political. Ideas developed throughout the book are drawn from rural sociology, community studies, rural geography, political economy and regional studies.
"The real value in this book is in its ability to unravel the many internal contradictions in neoliberal ideology through empirical example, rather than conceptual argument." Canadian Journal of Sociology Online
ISBN: 9780521807531
Dimensions: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
Weight: 610g
258 pages