Beschreibung:
This book provides a contemporary perspective on rapidly evolving population, economic and environmental changes in 'rural and regional Australia', itself a significant concept. Bringing together a range of empirical studies, the book builds on established rural studies themes such as population change, economic restructuring and globalization in agriculture but links such changes to environmental change, culture, class, gender, and ethnic diversity. Presenting original and in-depth interventions on these issues and their intersections, this book assembles the best of contemporary research on rural Australia.
1: Introduction; 2: The Role of Gender in the Migration Practices and Aspirations of Australian Rural Youth; 3: Urban to Rural Elderly Migration; 4: Immigrant Settlement in Regional Australia; 5: 'They have no concept of what a farm is'; 6: Difference or Equality? Settlement Dilemmas on the Indigenous Estate; 7: Challenging Mining Workforce Practices; 8: Trajectories of Change in Rural Landscapes; 9: Water Reform in the 21st Century; 10: Rural Place Marketing, Tourism and Creativity; 11: Soft Country? Rural and Regional Australia in Country Style; 12: 'Not just drought.' Drought, Rural Change and More; 13: Evolving Metabolic Relations