Making Markets in Australian Agriculture

Patrick O’Keeffe completed his PhD research at RMIT University in 2018. Patrick’s research has been published by the following peer reviewed journals: Agriculture and Human Values, Space and Polity, Australian Geographer, Journal of Sociology, Rural Society and Journal of Australian Political Economy. Patrick is a lecturer at the RMIT University's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies.

• 1. Making Markets: Agricultural restructuring in Australia.- 2. Governmentality as a lens for analysing agricultural restructuring in Australia.- 3. Creating a reality of markets, firms and consumers.- 4. Productivism, financialisation and the ‘good farmer’: Constructing a rational, governable farming sector.- 5. Acting on society: Quantification, technologies of performance and erasure of ‘the social’.- 6. Freedom and choice? Legitimising concentration in deregulated agricultural markets.- 7. Feeding the world or turning a profit? How transnational agribusiness firms use discourse to shape their external environments.- 8. Constructing a corporate society: Shaping knowledge, identities and values to facilitate the emergence of corporate power.