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This chapter summarises the book. Ultimately, there has been a fundamental shift in the matrix of ideals informing policy settings in Australia across time and agriculture is a useful lens through which to view this change. Subsequently, there has been a fundamental and related shift in the orientation of the lifeworld of farmers in the Goolhi district that has had significant and complex effects. This book explores exactly what these effects are and what this might tell us about the relationship between the social and the individual, the cultural and the material. It contributes a detailed empirical example of the impacts of the role of the state and how changes in macro-social settings deeply impact upon the conditions of possibility of the lifeworld.
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For a further development of this point, see: Palumbo, Antonino and Scott, Alan (2019) ‘Polanyi’s double movement and the making of the “knowledge economy”’. In Roland Atzmüller, Brigitte Aulenbacher, Ulrich Brand, Fabienne Décieux, Klaus Dörre, Karin Fischer, Birgit Sauer (eds.) Capitalism in Transformation. Movement and Countermovements in the 21st Century. London: Edward Elgar, pp. 274–288.
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Baker, C. (2021). Conclusions: Conditions of Possibility. In: A Sociology of Place in Australia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6240-6_10
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