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- Analyses wheat export market deregulation in Australia
- Highlights how regional wheat markets have become concentrated, and controlled by transnational agribusiness firms
- Examines the construction of knowledge, values and identities to show how machinations contributed to deregulation appearing as the most logical solution
- Shows how governmental technologies were used to make the shift towards liberalisation of the wheat export market happen
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The book delves into the discursive construction of policy truths such as efficiency, competition, and the consumer, to understand how this shift was made possible, whose interests have been served, and what the implications of this shift have been. This book focuses on the machinations which contributed to this shift by examining the construction of knowledge, values and identities, which have helped to make the transition from the public to the private appear as a logical, common sense solution to the challenges facing Australian agriculture.
The author shows how governmental technologies such as audit, cost-benefit analysis, performance objectives and the consumer were used to make this reality operable. In doing so, he argues that this shift should be viewed as part of the broader restructuring of Australian society, which has facilitated the transference of economic and policy making power from the public to the private.
Keywords
- Agricultural Deregulation in Australia
- Wheat Export Market Deregulation in Australia
- Neoliberalism in Australian Policy Making
- Discourse Analysis Economic Policy
- Corporate Power in Agrifood Governance
- Creating a Corporate Society in Australia
- Governmentality and Quantification Policy Studies
- Australian Competition Policy Analysis
- Food Security Discourse
- Technology of the Consumer, Governmentality Studies
- Agricultural restructuring in Australia
- Reality of Markets, firms and consumers
- Governable Farming Sector
- Productivism, financialisation and farming
- Transnational Agribusiness Firms
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Global, Urban & Social Studies, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Patrick O'Keeffe
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making Markets in Australian Agriculture
Book Subtitle: Shifting Knowledge, Identities, Values, and the Emergence of Corporate Power
Authors: Patrick O'Keeffe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3519-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3518-1Published: 02 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3519-8Published: 21 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 207
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agricultural Economics, Public Policy, Economic Policy, R & D/Technology Policy