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Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities: Rethinking Australian Country Towns book cover

1st Edition

Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities Rethinking Australian Country Towns

Edited By Catherine Driscoll, Kate Darian-Smith, David Nichols Copyright 2017
256 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1. Rethinking Australian country towns

Catherine Driscoll, Kate Darian-Smith and David Nichols

Part I: Place

2. On boredom: hometown

Prudence Black

3. Music and community in Australian country towns: choir singing, belonging and emotion

Chris Gibson and Andrea Gordon

4. Cultural progress in a rural community: the Swan Hill Shakespeare Festival

Kate Darian-Smith, David Nichols and Jane Grant

5. Farm lit: reading narratives of love on the land

Imelda Whelehan and Barbara Pini

6. Deceptive Darwin, the country capital

Tess Lea

Part II: Experience

7. Hometown: sustainable queerness in the more-than-human country town

Katrina Schlunke

8. ‘A special Australian country thing’: the small hall in Australian country life

David Nichols, Kate Bowles and Gordon Waitt

9. Sticky places: temporality, affect and gender in Australian country towns

Anna Hickey-Moody and Jane Kenway

10. Talk of the town in drought country

Deb Anderson

Part III: Progress

11. Broome’s economy: renaturalising neoliberalism?

Stephen Muecke

12. Fostering equality, maintaining hierarchy: problems of race and class in the Country Women’s Association of New South Wales, 1956–1970

Jennifer Jones

13. Gender relations in a rural community

Margaret Alston

14. Something to play every day: rural retirement culture

Catherine Driscoll

Biography

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.

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