{"product_id":"boomtown-9780745338279","title":"Boomtown","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn anthropological study of a community 'marinated' in fossil fuels, fraught by ambivalence and conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e  Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e  Preface\u003cbr\u003e  Prologue: The High Point of Extractive Industrialism \u003cbr\u003e  Part I: Citrus, Altius, Fortius\u003cbr\u003e  1. A City No Longer in Waiting\u003cbr\u003e  2. Australian Identity and Its Double Binds \u003cbr\u003e  3. Change in Their Bones\u003cbr\u003e  4. The Boomtown Syndrome and the Treadmill Paradox\u003cbr\u003e  Part II: Clashing Scales \u003cbr\u003e  5. Green Voices\u003cbr\u003e  6. Dredging the Harbour\u003cbr\u003e  7. Slow-Burning Overheating at the East End Mine\u003cbr\u003e  8. The Demise of Targinnie\u003cbr\u003e  9. Clashing Scales: Globalisation, as we Know It\u003cbr\u003e  Epilogue: A Boomtown in Decline \u003cbr\u003e  Appendix 1: Anna Hitchcock's submission regarding the further\u003cbr\u003e  expansion of the State Development Area in Gladstone in 2014 \u003cbr\u003e  Appendix 2: Letter to Coordinator-General from Cheryl Watson \u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404315631959,"sku":"9780745338279","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745338279.jpg?v=1730486074","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/boomtown-9780745338279","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}