Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

272 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction science sociology informative reflective medium-paced
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Sitting next to the Great Barrier Reef, steeped 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 prec...

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