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Tracking Rural Change
Community, Policy and Technology in Australia, New Zealand and Europe
Table of Contents
Introduction
The developed world and its rural future
Diversification and reorganisation of ruralism
Policy and its long-term effects
Values: persistent and changing
Diversification and reorganisation of ruralism
New technology
Bibliography
Chapter 1. Rurality and rural space: the ‘policy effect’ of the Common Agricultural Policy in the Borders of Scotland
Abstract
Introduction
Rural image/rural locality
Rurality as agricultural
Intensification and diversification of agricultural space/landscape
Producing rural localities
Less favoured area: regional diversification of rural space
Price-support mechanism: intensification of production
Structural measures: diversification of agriculture
Diversification of rural space
Agenda 2000 and beyond
Conclusion: future research
Bibliography
Chapter 2. Has Australia’s administrative heritage maintained a culture of agrarian dependency?
Abstract
Introduction
The administrative geography of Australian rural development
Dependency, governance and rural restructuring
Radical rural governance
A culture of political subservience?
Grain handling
Irrigation
Natural resource management
Railways
Conclusion: some research directions
Acknowledgment
Bibliography
Chapter 3. The role of agrarian sentiment in Australian rural policy
Abstract
Introduction
Agrarianism and country-mindedness
The role of values in Australian rural policy
Agrarianism, politics, policy and the National Party
Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 4. Wildlife, wilderness and the politics of alternative land use: an Australian ethnography
Abstract
Introduction
The proposal from above
Conservation science versus commonsense knowledge
The view from below
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 5. Land tenure and identity in the New Zealand high country
Abstract
Introduction
Place and subjectivity
High country pastoral farming
The tenure review process
The high country and New Zealand identity
High country farmer identity
Recreation and environmental interests in the high country
Farmers’ perspectives
Farmers, the State and subjectivity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 6. Moving to the country for a graduated retirement: constructing new meaningful lives
Abstract
Introduction
A moral economy of exchange between orchardists and their orchards
Agency and orchards
Social exchange
The nature of the rewards of exchange
A moral economy
The kiwifruit industry in New Zealand
Method: the ARGOS program and this research
The importance of ‘doing’
The rewards of doing
Linking the doing and the rewards
The signifiers of the rewards of doing and caring
The wild orchard: signified by tidiness and control
The needy orchard: creating a haven
Discussion and implications
Creating identity: living meaningful lives
Issues for rural futures
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 7. Intergenerational transitions in rural Western Australia: an issue for sustainability?
Abstract
Introduction
Statement of the issue
A region in context
Land use
A framework for analysis
Intergenerational transitions
Change the timing of the transfer
Change the mix of assets to be transferred
Some preliminary reflections
Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 8. Under the regulatory radar? Nanotechnologies and their impacts for rural Australia
Abstract
Introduction
Technological change in rural Australia
Approaches to nano-regulation and its limits
Agri-food nanotechnologies and their social impacts for rural Australia
Human health risks from nanotechnologies
The environmental impacts of nanotechnological innovation for rural Australia
Conclusion: developing a nano-regulatory agenda that engages with social, health and environmental issues
Acknowledgment
Bibliography
Conclusion
Modalities of change
Technology and rural transitions
Policy and rural transitions
References