Description
Book SynopsisAn anthropological study of a community 'marinated' in fossil fuels, fraught by ambivalence and conflict.
Trade Review'It takes a seasoned anthropologist like Thomas Hylland Eriksen, with his wealth of research and experience to elevate this ethnographic depiction of a town in Queensland to a study of the many social, economic and ecological tensions and contradictions that animate many places around the world' -- Professor Ghassan Hage, Department of Anthropology, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Preface
Prologue: The High Point of Extractive Industrialism
Part I: Citrus, Altius, Fortius
1. A City No Longer in Waiting
2. Australian Identity and Its Double Binds
3. Change in Their Bones
4. The Boomtown Syndrome and the Treadmill Paradox
Part II: Clashing Scales
5. Green Voices
6. Dredging the Harbour
7. Slow-Burning Overheating at the East End Mine
8. The Demise of Targinnie
9. Clashing Scales: Globalisation, as we Know It
Epilogue: A Boomtown in Decline
Appendix 1: Anna Hitchcock's submission regarding the further
expansion of the State Development Area in Gladstone in 2014
Appendix 2: Letter to Coordinator-General from Cheryl Watson
Bibliography
Index
