| Description |
1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Rethinking Australian country towns / Catherine Driscoll, Kate Darian-Smith and David Nichols -- Place -- On boredom : hometown / Prudence Black -- Music and community in Australian country towns : choir singing, belonging and emotion / Chris Gibson and Andrea Gordon -- Cultural progress in a rural community : the Swan Hill shakespeare festival / Kate Darian-Smith, David Nichols and Jane Grant -- Farm lit: reading narratives of love on the land / Imelda Whelehan and Barbara Pini -- Deceptive darwin, the country capital / Tess Lea -- Experience -- Hometown : sustainable queerness in the more-than-human country town / Katrina Schlunke -- "A special Australian country thing" : the small hall in Australian country life / Kate Bowles, David Nichols and Gordon Waitt -- Sticky places : temporality, affect and gender in Australian country towns / Anna Hickey-Moody and Jane Kenway -- Talk of the town in drought country / Deb Anderson -- Progress -- Broome's economy : renaturalising neoliberalism? / Stephen Muecke -- Fostering equality, maintaining hierarchy : problems of race and class in the country women's association of NSW 1956-1970 / Jennifer Jones -- Gender relations in a rural community / Margaret Alston -- Something to play every day : rural retirement culture / Catherine Driscoll -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural.
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Cultural policy
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Rural conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Rural conditions
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Australia -- Cultural policy
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| Subject |
Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Driscoll, Catherine, editor
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Darian-Smith, Kate, editor
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Nichols, David, editor
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| ISBN |
9781317156185 |
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1317156188 |
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