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dc.contributor.authorDavies, Amanda
dc.contributor.authorOliver, Bobbie
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-23T03:01:29Z
dc.date.available2017-06-23T03:01:29Z
dc.date.created2017-06-19T03:39:31Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationDavies, A. and Oliver, B. 2017. Life within and life of a mining town: the historical geography of Western Australia’s first iron ore town. Australian Geographer. 49 (1): pp. 25-40.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53824
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00049182.2017.1318801
dc.description.abstract

Small resource-dependent towns are particularly vulnerable to economic decline as they often have limited internal capacity to develop alternative economic functions. This paper presents the story of the development, decline and adaptation of a small resource-dependent town. Recognising that the processes informing the development trajectories of resource communities are diverse, temporally embedded and multi-scalar, this paper argues that the everyday activities of the residents inform the life of resource towns, and, moreover, lives within these places. The paper presents the story of Wundowie—Western Australia’s first iron ore town. This is interwoven with the story of the Kowalski family—a migrant family whose history, typical of many of the town’s original residents, made the town.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.titleLife within and life of a mining town: the historical geography of Western Australia’s first iron ore town
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume48
dcterms.source.startPage25
dcterms.source.endPage40
dcterms.source.issn0004-9182
dcterms.source.titleAustralian Geographer
curtin.departmentDepartment of Planning and Geography
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