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This chapter communicates and analyses the first-hand experiences of the significant change since World War II. Through the presentation and analysis of the contemporary qualitative interviews, this chapter communicates the ways in which the reorganisation of state priorities has shifted the settings within which farms operate and how this has impacted upon everyday life. Topics include the lived experience of embedded economic action, debt stress and its role in low capital investment; impacts on lifestyle such as increasing stress, pace and intensity of farming; and the lived experience of the changing role of the state, including the embodied exposure to new burdens of a ‘free’ market. The contrasting experiences of small-scale farmers with a large corporate farm in the area amplify the divisions.
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Baker, C. (2021). Moment Two and the Lived Experience of Economic Action at Goolhi. In: A Sociology of Place in Australia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6240-6_8
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