Making Markets in Australian Agriculture Shifting Knowledge, Identit
This book provides a genealogical study of Australian agricultural restructuring, focusing on the case study of wheat export market deregulation. This policy shift was implemented in 2008, ending 60 years of statutory wheat marketing. At the time, policy
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Making Markets in Australian Agriculture
Patrick O’Keeffe
Making Markets in Australian Agriculture Shifting Knowledge, Identities, Values, and the Emergence of Corporate Power
Patrick O’Keeffe School of Global, Urban & Social Studies Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Abstract
This work analyses the case study of wheat export market deregulation in Australia, which was implemented in 2008, ending 60 years of statutory marketing by the Australian Wheat Board (AWB). At the time, policy makers claimed that this policy change would empower individual growers, providing them with choice and freedom in wheat marketing. However, regional wheat markets have become concentrated and are increasingly controlled by a small number of transnational agribusiness firms. I argue this shift should be viewed as part of the broader restructuring of Australian society and economy. In analysing how the deregulation of the wheat export market has been made possible, I examine the construction of knowledge, values, and identities, to conform to the rationality of liberalised markets. These constructions create a reality which makes the shift from the public to the private appear a
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