Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities

Rethinking Australian Country Towns

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvCatherine Driscoll,Kate Darian-Smith,David Nichols

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There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural studies'. This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary research project that is part of that emergence, 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. However, it extends beyond the initial parameters of that research, bringing together a range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches, offering a uniquely diverse but also careful account of life in country Australia. Yet, in its emphasis on the simultaneous specificity and cross-cultural recognisability of rural communities, this book also outlines a field of inquiry and a set of critical strategies that are more broadly applicable to thinking about the "rural" in the early twenty-first century.This book will be valuable reading for students and academics of Geography, History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Sociology, introducing rural cultural studies as a new dynamic and integrative discipline.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-08-27
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367349288

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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.

1. Rethinking Australian country townsCatherine Driscoll, Kate Darian-Smith and David NicholsPart I: Place2. On boredom: hometownPrudence Black3. Music and community in Australian country towns: choir singing, belonging and emotionChris Gibson and Andrea Gordon4. Cultural progress in a rural community: the Swan Hill Shakespeare FestivalKate Darian-Smith, David Nichols and Jane Grant5. Farm lit: reading narratives of love on the landImelda Whelehan and Barbara Pini6. Deceptive Darwin, the country capitalTess LeaPart II: Experience7. Hometown: sustainable queerness in the more-than-human country townKatrina Schlunke8. ‘A special Australian country thing’: the small hall in Australian country lifeDavid Nichols, Kate Bowles and Gordon Waitt9. Sticky places: temporality, affect and gender in Australian country townsAnna Hickey-Moody and Jane Kenway10. Talk of the town in drought countryDeb AndersonPart III: Progress11. Broome’s economy: renaturalising neoliberalism?Stephen Muecke12. Fostering equality, maintaining hierarchy: problems of race and class in the Country Women’s Association of New South Wales, 1956–1970Jennifer Jones13. Gender relations in a rural communityMargaret Alston14. Something to play every day: rural retirement cultureCatherine Driscoll

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