Tracking Rural Change

Tracking Rural Change

Community, Policy and Technology in Australia, New Zealand and Europe

Edited by: Francesca Merlan, David Raftery

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A key, intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is farming. The corresponding re-distribution of population has typically resulted in a net population loss to rural areas, and diversification of rural activity. The corporatization and technological modification of food production has prompted new policy challenges, and has bound rural and urban populations together in new relationships articulated in moral discourses of custodianship, food safety, and sustainability. Contributors to this volume came together in the attempt to stimulate collective insight into trends of rural change in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The first two countries have been characterised by avowedly `neoliberal’ rural policy – with considerable departures from it in practice; Europe, on the other hand, by a mix of policy measures which attempt to integrate land management and sustainability, diversification and maintenance of a competitive farming sector within an overarching policy framework more overtly, though only partially, oriented towards sustaining rural society.

Aiming to build on research relating to the character of rural transitions, this volume offers substantive and critical contributions to the understanding of the sources of unpredictability, instability, and continuity, that underpin rural transition. The papers explore changes and continuities in policy, the governance of rural spaces, technological developments relating to rural areas and populations, and social forms of subjectivation and participation in increasingly diverse rural settings.

Details

ISBN (print):
9781921536526
ISBN (online):
9781921536533
Publication date:
Apr 2009
Imprint:
ANU Press
DOI:
http://doi.org/10.22459/TRC.04.2009
Disciplines:
Science: Agriculture & Forestry; Social Sciences: Sociology
Countries:
Australia; Europe; Pacific: New Zealand

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  1. Rurality and rural space: the ‘policy effect’ of the Common Agricultural Policy in the Borders of Scotland (PDF, 624KB)John Gray doi
  2. Has Australia’s administrative heritage maintained a culture of agrarian dependency? (PDF, 137KB)Ian Gray doi
  3. The role of agrarian sentiment in Australian rural policy (PDF, 140KB)Linda Botterill doi
  4. Wildlife, wilderness and the politics of alternative land use: an Australian ethnography (PDF, 128KB)Adrian Peace doi
  5. Land tenure and identity in the New Zealand high country (PDF, 138KB)Carolyn Morris doi
  6. Moving to the country for a graduated retirement: constructing new meaningful lives (PDF, 154KB)Lesley Hunt doi
  7. Intergenerational transitions in rural Western Australia: an issue for sustainability? (PDF, 294KB)Daniela Stehlik doi
  8. Under the regulatory radar? Nanotechnologies and their impacts for rural Australia (PDF, 145KB)Kristen Lyons and Gyorgy Scrinis doi

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