A Future for Regional Australia: Escaping Global Misfortune Book

	Acknowledgements
	Glossary
	Map: Australia's Population Distribution
1	The Global Misfortune of Regional Australia	1
	Global Misfortune	4
	The Challenges	12
	The Structure and Argument of this Book	13
2	Understanding Globalisation	16
	Competing Conceptions of Globalisation	17
	Features of Globalisation	20
	Causes and Contradictions of Globalisation	25
	Consequences of Globalisation for Farming in the Advanced Nations	31
3	People versus Policy	36
	Old Thinking	38
	People Suffering Change	41
	The Poverty of Rational Action Theory	42
	Social Power Relations	43
	New (Reflexive) Thinking	45
	Perspectives on Farming and 'The Rural'	48
	Rural-Urban Relativities	49
4	The Social Transformation of Australian Farming	52
	Restructuring Farming in Australia and Overseas	53
	Social Restructuring	64
5	Voices from the Farm	71
	Rural Ideology and Culture	72
	Ideology and Power	74
	Ideology and Restructuring	75
	Australian Research Findings	79
	Perceived Impacts of Restructuring	80
	Perceptions of Causes	84
6	Regional Decline: Division amid Disadvantage	94
	The Changing Spatial Distribution of Regional Population	95
	Spatial Variation	97
	Some Case Studies	98
	Regional Social Conditions	99
	Neoliberalism and Regional Economics	103
	Policy Impacts	104
	Postmodernity	109
	The Transformation of Regional Policy	112
7	People Confronting Dependency	116
	Economic Individualism	117
	Some Regional Histories	119
	The Relationship between Metropolitan and Regional Australia	124
	Power and Interests	127
	Community Resistance	128
	The Presentation and Interpretation of Development Issues	131
8	Beyond Productivism and Environmental Degradation?	137
	Colonial Agriculture: Compromising the Australian Landscape	138
	The Entrenchment of Productivist Agriculture	141
	Environmental Degradation in Australia	143
	Genetic Engineering: The Latest in Productivist Agriculture?	146
	Greening and the Organic Option	149
	The Prospects for Sustainable Agriculture in Australia	151
9	New Cultures for Old	159
	Rural Tradition in the Context of Globalisation	160
	The Nature of Tradition	162
	Theories of Detraditionalisation	163
	Farming Tradition	163
	The Detraditionalisation of Farming	164
	Newcomers	165
	Farm Succession and Inheritance	166
	Pluriactivity	168
	Farmer Knowledge	170
	Values	171
	The Trajectory of Change	172
	The Detraditionalisation of Rural Community	173
	Structural Differentiation	176
	Cultural Differentiation	177
	The End of Rural Australia?	179
10	The New Millennium; Pathways and Policies	181
	Neoliberal Hegemony	182
	Neoliberal Inconsistencies	184
	Reflexivity and Social Change	185
	Developing Alternatives to Productivism and Neoliberal Countrymindedness	187
	Sustainable Regional Development	188
	Some Limitations of Sustainable Regional Development	193
	The Weakness of a Communitarian Solution	195
	Institutional Incapacity	196
	Prospects for Regional Autonomy	199
	A Regional Solution	199
	Regional Social Capital	201
	Regional Government	202
	Institutional Change	203
	Equity and Sustainability	205
	Bibliography	209
	Index	243