Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities (eBook, PDF)

Rethinking Australian Country Towns
Redaktion: Driscoll, Catherine; Nichols, David; Darian-Smith, Kate

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book reflects an expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality. This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary research project, particularly focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and heritage in small Australian country towns. While this book offers a uniquely diverse account of life in Australia, in its emphasis on the simultaneous specificity and cross-cultural recognisability of rural communities it also outlines a set of critical strategies that are more broadly applicable to thinking about the 'rural'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317156192
• Artikelnr.: 48799648

Autorenporträt

Catherine Driscoll is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. Kate Darian-Smith holds joint appointments at the University of Melbourne as Professor of Australian Studies and History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies and as Professor of Cultural Heritage in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. David Nichols is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rethinking Australian country towns
Catherine Driscoll, Kate Darian-Smith and David Nichols
Part I: Place
2. On boredom: hometown
Prudence Black
3. Music and community in Australian country towns: choir singing,
belonging and emotion
Chris Gibson and Andrea Gordon
4. Cultural progress in a rural community: the Swan Hill Shakespeare
Festival
Kate Darian-Smith, David Nichols and Jane Grant
5. Farm lit: reading narratives of love on the land
Imelda Whelehan and Barbara Pini
6. Deceptive Darwin, the country capital
Tess Lea
Part II: Experience
7. Hometown: sustainable queerness in the more-than-human country town
Katrina Schlunke
8. 'A special Australian country thing': the small hall in Australian
country life
David Nichols, Kate Bowles and Gordon Waitt
9. Sticky places: temporality, affect and gender in Australian country
towns
Anna Hickey-Moody and Jane Kenway
10. Talk of the town in drought country
Deb Anderson
Part III: Progress
11. Broome's economy: renaturalising neoliberalism?
Stephen Muecke
12. Fostering equality, maintaining hierarchy: problems of race and class
in the Country Women's Association of New South Wales, 1956-1970
Jennifer Jones
13. Gender relations in a rural community
Margaret Alston
14. Something to play every day: rural retirement culture
Catherine Driscoll