Sociology of Place in Australia

Dr Claire Baker is an academic, social researcher and author, currently appointed as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social Dimensions of Farming at Southern Cross University in association with the Australian Government-funded Soils CRC, and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New England.

• 1: Introduction: Goolhi and the sociology of place in Australia.- 2: The embedded market: Place, space, land and the self.- 3: Groundwork: The social, political and cultural history of land settlement in Australia.- 4: Dispossession/Possession: Prologue to Moment One.- 5: Moment One – The lived experience of soldier settlement at Goolhi.- 6: The Luck of the Long Boom: Epilogue to Moment One.- 7: Unpicking the stitches: Dynamics of change.- 8: Moment Two and the lived experience of economic action at Goolhi.- 9: Moment Two and its social consequences.- 10: Conclusions.