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Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Challenges and opportunities for Australian society -- Part II: Identities and Imaginaries: Values, place and power in 'mainstream' Australia -- Chapter 2: Australian identity: Multiculturalism, 'mainstream Australia' and white fragility -- Chapter 3: The beach and the Australian imaginary -- Chapter 4: 'The Australian way of life': Neoliberal hegemony, colonisation and territory -- Part III: Constructing a business-friendly society: Capital, labour and the welfare state -- Chapter 5: Economic inequality and the 'cost of living' crisis -- Chapter 6: The evolution of precarious work in Australia: Flexibility, fragmentation and insecurity -- Chapter 7: Poverty and punishment in Australian welfare policy: From the Cashless Debit Card to ParentsNext -- Part IV: From public goods to private assets: Marketising education, health care and housing -- Chapter 8: Uneven playing fields: Australian education and the commodification of opportunity -- Chapter 9: Healthy markets or health equity?: Neoliberalism and the rationing of health care in Australia -- Chapter 10: Capitalising on the housing crisis: Territorial stigmatisation, urban renewal and displacement -- Part V: Capital, place, age and race: Challenging neoliberal hegemony -- Chapter 11: The promise and peril of Digital Agriculture: 'Unleashing' the value of natural capital? -- Chapter 12: Rebellion, civil disobedience and repression: Young people, place and protest in Australia -- Chapter 13: Racism and resistance: African Australian challenges to spatial management practices in Australian institutions -- Part VI: Conclusion -- Chapter 14: Conclusion: What has happened, what can happen?.

Intro -- Abstract -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Making Markets: Agricultural Restructuring in Australia -- Introduction -- Why Does This Matter? -- Contribution of This Work -- Applying Governmentality in the Context of Australian Agricultural Deregulation -- A Brief Outline of Recent Agricultural Policy Change -- Deregulation in Australian Agricultural and Regional Policy -- Neoliberalisation, Farm Exits, and Rural Communities -- Impacts of Farm Exits Upon Farmers' Identity, Well-Being, and Relationship with the Land -- The Australian Response to Declining Rural Fortunes: Competitive Productivism and Self-Reliance -- Focus on Shifting Wheat Marketing Policy: From Stability and Security to Individualism and Competition -- The Demise of Statutory Wheat Marketing in Australia -- The Canadian Experience -- Outline of This Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Governmentality as a Lens for Analysing Agricultural Restructuring in Australia -- Introduction -- Governmentality: An Introduction -- Identity and the Individual -- Making People Knowable -- Discourse and the Shaping of "Truth" and Reality -- Sociology of Quantification -- Operationalising the Rationality of Markets, Firms, and Consumers -- Technologies of Agency -- Technologies of Performance -- Genealogy of Wheat Industry Deregulation -- Documents -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Creating a Reality of Markets, Firms, and Consumers -- Introduction -- The State, the Market, and Society -- Why Efficiency? -- Efficiency as a Truth -- The Depoliticisation of Markets -- Competition as a "Normal" Part of Life -- Marketisation as Common Sense -- The Inevitable Need to Maximise Competition and Efficiency -- Firms and Efficiency -- Creating a Business-Friendly Environment -- Shifting the Focus to Efficiency and Consumer Welfare -- Consumers -- The Technology of the Consumer.

AbstractWe show how policy discourses construct consumer choice, performance measurement and quality standards as key technologies in the marketisation of disability services and aged care in Australia. The emergence of performance outcome measurement and increased consumer access to these through diverse consumer facing and interactive platforms enables the state to "govern at a distance" through the management and shaping of outcome indicators rather than delivery of services. The state does this by creating market competition and establishing outcomes which reflect the construction people using services as informed and rational consumers rather than citizens. This construction and operationalisation frame marketisation as a rational solution to broken systems, assume choice is unproblematic and ignore diverse capacities to access and use information, resource differentials and contextual variables such as market maturity and service availability. The benign marketisation of human services thus discriminates against those who are already marginalised and disadvantaged unless equity strategies are clearly in place.

ZusammenfassungIm Juli 2016 wies China einen Schiedsspruch des Internationalen Schiedshofs in Den Haag zurück, der den chinesischen "historischen" Anspruch auf Riffe und Felsen im Südchinesischen Meer als nicht mit dem Völkerrecht vereinbar erklärte. Umfangreiche chinesische Landgewinnungsprojekte, die seit 2013 in den Spratly- und Paracel-Inselgruppen begannen, und die anschließende Militarisierung dieser künstlichen Inseln hatten zuvor bereits internationale Kritik auf den Plan gerufen und die gleichfalls Anspruch erhebenden Nachbarstaaten alarmiert. Viele Analysen haben seither versucht, Chinas kompromissloses Verhalten unter Rückgriff auf die historische, symbolische oder wirtschaftliche Bedeutung des Südchinesischen Meeres für die chinesische Gesamtstrategie zu erklären. In diesem Aufsatz werden hingegen einige häufig übersehene militärstrategische Faktoren beleuchtet. Diese deuten darauf hin, dass China einen kohärenten Ansatz verfolgt, um jederzeit ein umfassendes Echtzeit-Lagebild in einem Seegebiet zu schaffen, das aufgrund mehrerer kritischer Militäreinrichtungen auf der Insel Hainan einen Schlüsselfaktor für die militärische Modernisierung und die nukleare Abschreckungsstrategie Chinas darstellt.

The City of Melbourne's Skate Melbourne Plan purports to be skateboarder-centered, focusing on developing skate spaces for skateboarders. Drawing on research analyzing street skateboarders' production of space and the importance of public spaces to street skateboarding, we examine how the Skate Melbourne Plan recognizes and supports street skateboarders' capacity to skate in city environments. We suggest that rather than developing street skateboarding in the Melbourne Central Business District (CBD), the Skate Melbourne Plan reproduces negative constructions of young people who engage in street skateboarding as deviant and delinquent, by marginalizing and delegitimizing street skateboarding in public spaces.