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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Juli 2018
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
ISBN:	9780745338279
EAN-Code:	9780745338279
Verlag:	Pluto Press
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 222 mm / B 145 mm / D 20 mm
Gewicht:	523 gr
Seiten:	274
Zus. Info:	HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
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Inhalt:

Sitting next to the Great Barrier Reef, marinated in coal and gas, the industrial boomtown of Gladstone, Australia embodies many of the contradictions of the 'overheated' world: prosperous yet polluted; growing and developing yet always on the precipice of uncertainty. Capturing Gladstone at the peak of its accelerated growth in 2013-14, Thomas Hylland Eriksen dissects the boomtown phenomenon in all its profound ambivalence. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores the tensions and resentments surrounding migrant workers, and examines local identity, family life, infrastructure and local services. Writ large in Boomtown are the clashes of scale at the heart of the town's contradictions - where the logic of big industry and the state compete with that of the individual, local communities and ecology, revealing the current crisis of political legitimacy across the world.