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Title: | Reinterpreting Core and Periphery in Australia's Mineral and Energy Resources Boom: an Innisian perspective on the Pilbara | Contributor(s): | Argent, Neil (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2013 | DOI: | 10.1080/00049182.2013.817033 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13682 | Abstract: | Australia's current robust macro-economic condition, at least relative to that of many comparator nations within Europe and the USA, is built largely on the nation's particular insertion into the global economy as an abundant and reliable source of mineral and energy resources. Within Australia, though, public concern is mounting over the many direct and indirect economic, environmental and social effects of mineral and energy resource extraction and processing. Resource peripheries like the Pilbara have been characterised as 'slippery spaces' where capital, commodities and labour rapidly flow in, and all too frequently out, of these remote regions, with the surplus from local extraction and processing captured by the 'sticky places'-the metropolitan cores host to the national and multinational mining and energy corporations (Hayter 2003). Drawing on insights from Innis' staples theory and geographical political economy, this paper focuses on two of these closely connected concerns. First, it briefly explores the attempts to establish a redistributive mechanism with which to equitably allocate the benefits of the boom in a federal polity in which socio-spatial inequity is still regarded as a substantial public policy concern. Second, shifting the focus to the regional and local scales of the Pilbara and its scattered towns, the paper critically explores the 'Pilbara Cities' initiative, funded by the 'Royalties for Regions' scheme, querying whether or not this ambitious plan can create the conditions for the development of functionally complex local and regional economies. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Australian Geographer, 44(3), p. 323-340 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1465-3311 0004-9182 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160401 Economic Geography | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440603 Economic geography | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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