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dc.contributor.authorCurry, George
dc.contributor.authorKoczberski, Gina
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:55:51Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:55:51Z
dc.date.created2009-03-05T00:56:45Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.identifier.citationCurry, George and Koczberski, Gina. 2001. Cashing out, cashing in: rural change on the south coast of Western Australia. Australian Geographer. 32 (1): pp. 109-124.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6841
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00049180020036268
dc.description.abstract

Over the past century the cultural and physical landscape of the Shire of Denmark on the south coast of Western Australia has been transformed by successive waves of in-migrants. The paper examines the period since the early 1970s when alternative lifestylers and early retirees, attracted by the district's natural beauty and low land prices, began moving in and acquiring former Group Settlement holdings. The activities of these and subsequent 'alternatives' and 'cashed out' early retirees settling in the district have raised the marketability of the Shire's cultural capital. These changes have occurred in association with broader processes of rural restructuring and changing notions of 'rurality'. Increasingly, Denmark's cultural and physical landscape has become a highly marketable product for consumption by Perth's affluent middle classes. In recent years land prices have risen rapidly as speculators and financiers seek to 'cash in' on the 'cashed out' society. The paper explores these issues and relates them to broader processes of economic and social change occurring at the national and international

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.titleCashing out, cashing in: rural change on the south coast of Western Australia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume32
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage109
dcterms.source.endPage124
dcterms.source.issn00049182
dcterms.source.titleAustralian Geographer
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curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyFaculty of Media, Society and Culture
curtin.facultySchool of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
curtin.facultyFaculty of Humanities


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