Overview
Provides a fine-grained historical and sociological account of the impact of shifts in the policies of the Australian state and the internationalization of its economy at the micro-level of actors’ experience and of the dilemmas that macro-level changes pose in their daily lives
Enriches our understanding of the material and localized effects of the political and economic processes that have shaped the contemporary world, and which are at the centre of contemporary debate across the social and historical sciences
Uses intimate firsthand accounts to offer a uniquely grounded and authentic work
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“Baker presents a vivid and original account of land, livelihood, and loss in rural Australia, working in the tradition of Karl Polanyi to trace intricate connections between sociohistorical transformations, shifting state policies, and the changing rhythms of everyday life.” (Professor Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia)
“A thoughtfully crafted and perceptively argued exposé of life on the land, Baker’s book blends personal insights and socio-historical events in tracing Indigenous dispossession, soldier settlement, family farming, and government policy in the making of rural Australia. The author is to be congratulated for delivering a fascinating and provocative account of agrarian transformation—one making a major contribution to rural sociology and the sociology of place.” (Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Lawrence, University of Queensland)
“Baker has written a beautiful study of place that illuminates the complex configurations of people and landscape in rural Australia. It’s intellectually profound analysis of the social construction of rural land use is informed by deep and heartfelt narratives of people’s everyday realities. Their voices are the vines that stretch across the latticework of her theory. This is a book that both informs and delights.” (Professor Bill Pritchard, University of Sydney)
“A tour de force. Anyone who wants to understand the ‘tragic separation between the City and the Land’ in contemporary Australia should read Baker’s beautifully told economic and social history.” (Emeritus Professor Michael Pusey, FASSA, University of New South Wales)
“If Australia was the creation of a genocidal settler colonialism, how did the final acts of elimination play out? In Claire Baker’s meticulously documented book we learn of how the ‘brown land’ of New South Wales’ Liverpool Plains was annexed for White Australia, in part through a soldier settlement programme. In some especially engaging chapters of this fine book, Baker reveals how the last remaining aboriginal inhabitants were driven from their now-thoroughly-fenced land, and she explores in detail the fundamental economic and symbolic roles played by agriculture and agrarianism in this process of violent dispossession and erasure.” (Gareth Dale, Brunel University London)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Sociology of Place in Australia
Book Subtitle: Farming, Change and Lived Experience
Authors: Claire Baker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6240-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6239-0Published: 10 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6242-0Published: 11 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-6240-6Published: 09 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 320
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Human Geography, Historical Sociology, Political History