Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast

by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745338275
• ISBN13: 9780745338279
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"