"The beast doesn't stop": The resource boom and changes in the social space of the Darling Downs

Rural Society

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 42-64

  Everingham, Jo Anne ^a   Devenin, Verónica ^a,b   Collins, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Coal seam gas; Mining; Power relations; Social space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944311768     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2014.1001480     Document Type: Review

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