On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology as Experience@@@The Anthropology of Experience

This article explores the possibility that US rural amenity destinations are affected by ‘linked migration’ streams similar to ones connecting the fate of high-wage professionals and low-wage immigrants in global cities. To date, the possibility of such a linkage has not been considered in the vast literature on migration and social transformation in rural America, a literature that has treated the arrival of these two groups (high-wage professionals and low-wage immigrants) in rural spaces as separate processes. We explore the possibility that these two groups, in a particular set of US rural amenity communities, are structurally linked. We focus on the theoretical implications of documenting such linkages, arguing that the presence of linked migration dynamics in rural areas would transform scholarly debates on: (1) Latino immigrants in the rural USA; (2) amenity migration and rural gentrification, not only in the USA but in a range of postindustrial economies; and (3) theories of globalization and mobi...

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The global rural: Gentrification and linked migration in the rural USA

Cultural systems and the wine tourism product

Mobilities of people, capital, labour, expertise, resources and images create significant challenges for sustainable destination governance. This paper discusses the implications of mobilities for destination governance where fluid populations of tourists, residents, second home owners and recreationists, and transnational flows of labour and capital intersect to create and recreate the physical, social, economic and political characteristics of place. Three key processes that affect destination management are identified: the spatial restructuring of destinations, the pluralisation of destination management and the re-envisioning of community. In a study of the hyper-neoliberal destination of the Gold Coast, Australia, mobilities are examined and implications for governance are discussed. Our research highlights the challenges of measuring, evaluating and understanding the extent and complexity of mobilities, and explores the tensions between mobilities and established sustainable tourism principles that ...

Mobilities on the Gold Coast, Australia: implications for destination governance and sustainable tourism

Australia's rural lands are undergoing a process of intensive re-evaluation whereby previously unthought of, ignored, and excluded interests are gradually but emphatically asserting themselves. This re-interpretation, which itself reflects a transformation in established relationships between local communities, the three tiers of government in Australia and the private and non-governmental sectors, is being expressed in spatially uneven ways. Neoliberalist governments have ‘rolled out’ new models of so-called locally led, bottom-up entrepreneurialism and community development as the panacea to regional inequality. In this context, this paper critically scrutinises the evolving character of governance in one zone undergoing dramatic change across the spectrum: the high-amenity rural landscapes of New South Wales North Coast. In particular, it seeks to explore whether or not the advent of neoliberalist modes of governing that centre on the ‘active citizen’ and, by extension, the ‘active community’,...

Trouble in Paradise? Governing Australia's multifunctional rural landscapes

The social and cultural relationships between a rapidly expanding coastal tourist city (the Gold Coast) and its hinterland are explored through the analysis of local media representations.

Grahame Reginald Griffin

Papers

Where green turns to gold: strip cultivation and the Gold Coast hinterland