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The Global Cowboy: Rural Masculinities And Sexualities, Chris Gibson
The Global Cowboy: Rural Masculinities And Sexualities, Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson
There is arguably no more iconic motif of rural masculinity than the cowboy. The cowboy is a persona, a stereotype, an ideology, and a style of manhood strongly associated with rurality. With origins in Mexico and the American West, cowboy imagery and identities were globalized in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and were adopted, mutated, and subverted in contexts as different as Hawai'i, urban Japan, and remote Aboriginal Australia. This chapter traces the historical emergence and diffusion of cowboy masculinity, arguing that key to its endurance has been its malleability-its multivalent combinations of hero worship, ambiguity, rural place-based …
The Extent And Significance Of Rural Festivals, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson, John Connell, Jim Walmsley
The Extent And Significance Of Rural Festivals, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson, John Connell, Jim Walmsley
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Chilling Out In The Country? Interrogating Daylesford As A 'Gay/Lesbian Rural Idyll', Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson
Chilling Out In The Country? Interrogating Daylesford As A 'Gay/Lesbian Rural Idyll', Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
Recent scholarship suggests that the gay/lesbian idyllisation of rural places is an urban construct, constituted through metropolitan sensibilities, communities and imaginaries. We extend this work through examining the construction of Daylesford, Victoria, as a ‘gay/lesbian rural idyll’. Daylesford annually hosts ChillOut, Australia’s largest rural gay/lesbian festival, which underpins its idyllisation. Utilising data drawn from fieldwork conducted at the 2006 festival and commentaries circulated in the gay/lesbian media, we argue that not only is Daylesford idyllised in the Australian gay/lesbian imaginary, but that rurality and urbanity are hybridised in its framing as a ‘gay/lesbian rural idyll’. This is manifested in several …
Shifting Welfare, Shifting People: Rural Development, Housing And Population Mobility In Australia, Rae Dufty, Christopher Gibson
Shifting Welfare, Shifting People: Rural Development, Housing And Population Mobility In Australia, Rae Dufty, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
Rural welfare is more than addressing problems of ‘poverty’. As we argue here, social policy initiatives are also conceived by governments as solutions to geographical problems about uneven regional development and population distribution. What these problems were, and how welfare provision could solve them, has varied from generation to generation and takes shape in place-specific ways. That welfare provision has operated as de facto geographical development and population policy is particularly the case in Australia, in its context of massive continental size and heterogeneous rural places. In Australia, the ‘rural’ means much more than just the ‘countryside’ surrounding or between …
Chilling Out In 'Cosmopolitan Country': Urban/Rural Hybridity And The Construction Of Daylesford As A 'Lesbian And Gay Rural Idyll', Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, Chris Gibson
Chilling Out In 'Cosmopolitan Country': Urban/Rural Hybridity And The Construction Of Daylesford As A 'Lesbian And Gay Rural Idyll', Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson
This paper advances scholarship on 'lesbian and gay rural idylls'. A growing literature examines how 'lesbian and gay rural idylls' are not only produced in opposition to the urban, but are themselves urban constructs. We extend these contentions by exploring the processes of idyllisation suffusing lesbian and gay festival tourism in Daylesford, a town in non-metropolitan Victoria, Australia. We find that Daylesford's idyllisation by the lesbian and gay tourism industry blurs the urban/rural binary, and instead hybridises rurality and urbanity in the tourism images and practices of 'cosmopolitan country' associated with the town. Research findings from Daylesford are analysed to …
Elvis In The Country: Transforming Place In Rural Australia, Christopher R. Gibson, John Connell
Elvis In The Country: Transforming Place In Rural Australia, Christopher R. Gibson, John Connell
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Greening Rural Festivals: Ecology, Sustainability And Human-Nature Relations, Christopher R. Gibson, C Wong
Greening Rural Festivals: Ecology, Sustainability And Human-Nature Relations, Christopher R. Gibson, C Wong
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.