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Australia Geographer 2018 Special Issue: Globalising Australia

 

Australian Geographer Vol. 49 Iss. 3  https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cage20/49/3?nav=tocList

 

Editors:

Kirsten Martinus (The University of Western Australia)

Thomas Sigler (The University of Queensland)

Phillip O’Neill (Western Sydney University)

Matthew Tonts(The University of Western Australia)

 

This special issue examines Australia’s dramatic economic shift over the past quarter of a century – moving through eras of economic restructuring, natural resource dependence, the rise of the service economy and change in manufacturing. Collectively these changes have transformed its spatial economy. This special issue draws on insights provided by Fagan and Weber in 1994 when Global Restructuring: The Australian Experience was published to provide an overview of the nation’s transition from a relatively stable post World War II through to the rapid changes of the 1980s and 1990s. This collection of papers documents the subsequent structural changes in agriculture, automotive, creative industries, energy, and financial sectors, as well as the spatial organisation of its major cities. It situates Australia’s changes in the context of broader global industrial transformations, concluding by making a case for Antipodean economic geography to move towards a more relational and practice-driven approach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Kirsten Martinus

Senior Research Fellow

Centre for Regional Development, School of Agriculture and Environment  •  M000, Perth WA 6009 Australia

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