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Title: | Heading down to the local? Australian rural development and the evolving spatiality of the craft beer sector | Contributor(s): | Argent, Neil (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2018 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.01.016 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/23499 | Abstract: | Rural geographical and regional development scholarship over the past two decades has increasingly focused on the capacities of local towns and regions to overcome chronic spirals of employment, business and demographic decline. In this context, this paper assesses the local development impacts of a once ubiquitous industry in rural Australia - beer brewing. Via a case study of 16 rural Australian craft breweries, the paper examines the factors underlying their establishment, and investigates the contribution that these new firms make to local and regional development. Applying evolutionary economic geography concepts such as place dependence and lock-in, and related ideas of embeddedness and 'regulatory space', the paper finds that the 16 brewers follow a variety of business models and most are small scale producers. For most, place dependence manifested as a form of embeddedness, reflected in their attachment to place, a desire to foster local and regional development and, for a minority, to create beers from local ingredients as far as possible. Evidence from the case study reported on in this paper suggests that local craft breweries are playing positive roles in engendering social, symbolic and, to a lesser extent, financial capital in their home towns and regions. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Journal of Rural Studies, v.61, p. 84-99 | Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1873-1392 0743-0167 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160499 Human Geography not elsewhere classified | 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 | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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