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1. Introduction : twenty-first century rural Australia / John Connell and Rae Dufty-Jones -- 2. The role of gender in the migration practices and aspirations of Australian rural youth / Rae Dufty-Jones. [and more] -- 3. Urban to rural elderly migration : renewing and reinventing Australia's small ruralatowns / Amanda Davies -- 4. Immigrant settlement in regional Australia : patterns and processes / Graeme Hugo -- 5. "They have no concept if what a farm is" : exploring rural change through tree change migration / Danielle Drozdzewski -- 6. Difference or equality? : settlement dilemmas on the indigenous estate / John Taylor -- 7. Challenging mining workforce practices : implications for frontline rural communities / Alison McIntosh and Kerry Carrington -- 8. Trajectories of change in rural landscapes : the end of the mixed farm? / Fiona McKenzie -- 9. Water reform in the 21st century : the changed status of Australian agriculture / Erin F. Smith and Bill Pritchard -- 10. Rural place marketing, tourism and creativity : entering the post-productivist countryside / Chris Gibson -- 11. Soft country? : rural and regional australia in country style / John Connell -- 12. 'Not just drought' : drought, rural change and more : perspectives from rural farming communities / Louise E. Askew, Meg Sherval and Pauline McGuirk -- 13. Evolving metabolic relations : nature resources and people in the hunter valley / Phil McManus.

This book provides a contemporary perspective on rapidly evolving population, economic and environmental changes in 'rural and regional Australia', itself a significant concept. Bringing together a range of empirical studies, the book builds on established rural studies themes such as population change, economic restructuring and globalization in agriculture but links such changes to environmental change, culture, class, gender, and ethnic diversity. Presenting original and in-depth interventions on these issues and their intersections, this book assembles the best of contemporary research on.

This special issue on housing and socio-spatial inclusion had its genesis in the 5th Housing Theory Symposium (HTS) on the theme of housing and space, held in Brisbane, Australia in 2013. In late 2013 we put out a call for papers in an attempt to collect an initial suite of theoretical and empirical scholarship on this theme. This collection of articles progresses our initial discussions about the theoretical implications of adding the "social" to the conceptual project of thinking through housing and space. We hope that this special issue will act as a springboard for a critical review of housing theory, which could locate housing at the centre of a much broader network of social and cultural practices across different temporal trajectories and spatial scales. This editorial presents an overview of the theoretical discussions at the HTS and summarises the six articles in this themed issue, which are: (1) The meaning of home in home birth experiences; (2) Reconceptualizing the "publicness" of public housing; (3) The provision of visitable housing in Australia; (4) The self-production of dwellings made by the Brazilian new middle class; (5) Innovative housing models and the struggle against social exclusion in cities; and (6) A theoretical and an empirical analysis of "poverty suburbanization".