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Globalisation and regional renewal revisited

Patrick C Jobes

Published in:
Australian journal of social issues, 38(1), February 2002.

Abstract

This article presents an introduction to a forum which addresses how the epochal process of globalisation pertains to rural and regional Australia. The introduction notes that collectively, the articles presented demonstrate the complexity of globalisation in rural areas in three ways. First, globalisation is a multi-faceted phenomenon involving more issues than the fluxion of economy and polity around 'free' trade. It simultaneously effects and incites ethical and practical reactions concerning national boundaries, environment, community, health, wealth, language and essentially all other matters with social valence. Second, globalisation has diverse and differential impacts both between the developed and developing nations and within them. Third, globalisation has generated collective angst and organised protest. Taken as a whole, these papers simultaneously illustrate theoretically abstract and privately mundane aspects of globalisation.