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Building 'community': sites of production, planning practices and technologies of suburban government in the making of the Golden Grove Development, 1984-2003

This research draws upon the writings of Michel Foucault and a range of governmentality texts to problematise those planning techniques and practices promulgated in an attempt to produce particular ideals of community. To accomplish this I have focused predominantly on the discourses pertaining to the Golden Grove Development. The histories I re-construct from these discourses demonstrate how ideals of community have been constituted and how they act as technologies of government. The goals of these governmental technologies, I argue, were the normalisation of particular suburban subjectivities, with the intent to maximise economic gains and minimise financial, temporal, spatial and social risks. / PhD Doctorate

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/173452
Date January 2005
CreatorsBosman, Caryl
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEN-AUS
Detected LanguageEnglish
Rightscopyright 2005 Caryl Bosman

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