Research Catalog

Title

Changing places : New Zealand in the nineties / edited by Richard Le Heron and Eric Pawson.

Publication

Auckland : Longman Paul, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Le Heron, Richard B.
• Pawson, Eric.
• New Zealand Geographical Society.

Description

xix, 447 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"In the nineties New Zealand entered a period of rapid and comprehensive change which has become widely known outside the country as the "New Zealand experiment". "Changing places: New Zealand in the nineties" captures the dramatic changes over the last decade, and provides a map to help interpret the complexity. How are we connected to other places? In what ways are we (re)discovering our own places? How, and through whose agency, is change being regulated, particularly in view of the common understanding that "de"regulation is the order of the day? To what extent is change in localities a result of global influences? "Changing places: New Zealand in the nineties" is the successor to "Changing places in New Zealand: a geography of restructuring". In this new book the authors have concentrated on issues of the mid-1990s: globalisation, corporate strategies, labour flexibility, social policy, sustainability, urban and regional futures, patterns of consumption and how all these are affecting people's senses of place. Using the Geographic Restructuring model which was developed in the first book, the authors simultaneously give an outside and an inside view of the past ten years of change, allowing the rstructuring of the 1980s and 1990s to be seen as a fusion of both th country's participation in global restructuring and particular interactions arising from local and national initiatives. The model raises fundamental changes in New Zealand society and how agents in different social spheres are behaving in the new economic and institutional milieu. We come closer to establishing why, and by what means, particular interests have been able to influence directions of change ..." -- Back cover.

Subject

• Since 1984
• New Zealand > Economic conditions > 1984-
• New Zealand > Social conditions
• New Zealand > Politics and government > 1972-
• New Zealand > Economic conditions > 1984- > Case studies
• New Zealand > Social conditions > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Note

• "New Zealand Geographical Society."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-435) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Globalisation and the economy -- The companies -- Labour -- Farms, fisheries, forests -- Manufacturing, services and infrastructure.
• The state and social policy -- Environmental sustainability -- Urban and regional futures -- Landscapes of consumption -- Senses of place -- Place, scale and context.

ISBN

0582861047

OCLC

• 36040695
• SCSB-12560334

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library