Thomas Hylland Eriksen 
Boomtown [EPUB ebook] 
Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Preface
Prologue: The High Point of Extractive Industrialism
Part I: Citrus, Altius, Fortius
1. A City No Longer in Waiting
2. Australian Identity and Its Double Binds
3. Change in Their Bones
4. The Boomtown Syndrome and the Treadmill Paradox
Part II: Clashing Scales
5. Green Voices
6. Dredging the Harbour
7. Slow-Burning Overheating at the East End Mine
8. The Demise of Targinnie
9. Clashing Scales: Globalisation, as we Know It
Epilogue: A Boomtown in Decline
Appendix 1: Anna Hitchcock’s submission regarding the further
expansion of the State Development Area in Gladstone in 2014
Appendix 2: Letter to Coordinator-General from Cheryl Watson
Bibliography
Index

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and former President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He is the author of numerous classics of anthropology, including Small Places, Large Issues – 4th Edition (Pluto, 2015) and What is Anthropology? – 2nd Edition (Pluto, 2017).