Associate Professor Ian Gray
Publications
Principal monographs
Gray, I. (1991) Politics in Place: Social Power Relations in an Australian Country Town,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Gray, I., Lawrence, G. and Dunn, A. (1993) Coping with Change: Australian Farmers in the
1990s, Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga.
Stehlik, D., Gray, I. and Lawrence, G. (1999) Australian Farm Families' Experience of Drought ,
Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Canberra.
Barr, N., Ridges, S., Gray, I., Crockett, J. Anderson, N. and Watson, W. (2000) Adjustment for
Catchment Management , Murray Darling Basin Commission, Canberra.
Gray, I. and Lawrence, G. (2001) A Future for Regional Australia: Escaping Global Misfortune ,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Recent book chapters and conference papers
Lawrence, G., Gray, I. and Stehlik, D. (1999) 'Changing Spaces: The Effects of Macro-social
Forces on Rural Australia', pp. 63-87 in Kasimis, B. and Papadopoulos, A. (eds) Local
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Responses to Global Integration , Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot.
Lawrence, G., Share, P. and Gray, I. (2000) 'Rural Society' in Western, J. and Najman, J. (eds.)
Sociology of Australian Society, third edition, Macmillan, Melbourne.
Lawrence, G. and Gray, I. (2000) 'The Myths of Modern Agriculture: Australian Rural Production into the 21st Century', in Pritchard, B. and McManus, P. (eds.) Land of Discontent , UNSW
Press, Sydney.
Dunn, A., Gray, I., and Phillips, E. (2000) 'From Personal Barriers to Community Plans: A Farm and Community Planning Approach to the Extension of Sustainable Agriculture' pp. 15-17 in Shulman, A. and Price, R. (eds.) Case Studies in Increasing the Adoption of Sustainable
Resource Management Practices, Land and Water Resources Research and Development
Corporation, Canberra.
Gray, I., Phillips, E. and Dunn, A. (2000) 'Aspects of Rural Culture and the Use of Conservation
Farming', pp. 17-33 in Shulman, A. and Price, R. (eds.) Case Studies in Increasing the
Adoption of Sustainable Resource Management Practices, Land and Water Resources
Research and Development Corporation, Canberra.
Gray, I. and Phillips, E. (2001) 'Beyond Life in 'the Bush' - Australian Rural Cultures', chapter 3 in Lockie, S. and L. Bourke (eds) Rurality Bites, The Social and Environmental
Transformation of Rural Australia . Sydney: Pluto Press.
Lawrence, G., Knuttila, M. and Gray, I. (2001) 'Globalisation, Neoliberalism and Rural Decline:
Australia and Canada' in Epp, R. and Whitson, D. (eds) Writing Off Rural Communities:
Globalization,Governments, and the Transformation of Rural Life , University of Alberta
Press, Edmonton.
Gray, I. and Lawerence, G. (2001) A Future for Regional Australia: Escaping Global Misfortune,
Proceedings of the Sustainable Economic Growth for Regional Australia Conference,
Townsville, September.
Wilkinson, J., Gray, I. and Alston, M. (2003) ‘Tumbarumba’, in Cocklin, C and Alston, M. (eds)
Community Sustainability in Rural Australia: a question of capital?
Centre for Rural Social
Research, Charles Sturt University.
Brown, A. and Gray, I. (2003) ‘Should, can, and how might researchers help to integrate social, economic and environmental considerations into the planning process?' in Curtis, A. (ed.)
The Social Dimensions of the Triple Bottom Line in Rural Australia , Bureau of Rural
Sciences, Canberra.
Gray, I. and Lawrence, G. (2004) 'Capacity Building, Governance and Uncertainty for Australian
Rural Communities', in Doyle, R. (ed.), Strengthening Community Capacity , Naresuan
University, Thailand.

Gray, I. (2004) 'Who wins and loses between farm and market? the political economy of rail freight in Australia', paper presented to the conference of the Agri-Food Research Network,
Canberra, 11 June, 2004.
Gray, I. (2004) 'What is Regionalism?', pp. 16-25 in Brown, A.J. and Hudson, W. (eds)
Restructuring Australia, Federation Press, Sydney.
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Gray, I. (2005) 'Challenges to Individual and Collective Action' in Cocklin, C. and Dibden, J.,
(eds) Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney.
Gray, I. (2005) 'Does Reason Prevail? The analysis of social power relations in regional communities', Paper presented to the Community and Catchments Conference , Charles Sturt
University, Wagga Wagga.
Gray, I. (2006) ‘Urbanisation, Community and Rurality’, in Germov, J. and Poole, M. (eds)
Public Sociology: An Introduction to Australian Society , Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
Gray, I. and Brown A.J. (forthcoming 2007) ‘The Political Viability of Federal Reform’, in
Brown A.J. and Bellamy, J. (eds) Federalism and Regionalism in Australia: New
Approaches, New Institutions?
ANU e-Books, Canberra.
Recent refereed Journal Articles
Gray, I., (2000) 'The contrasting traditions of farming and railway work in Australian rural communities', Rural Society , 10 (3): 329-340.
Gray, I. and Lawrence, G. (2001) 'Neoliberalism, Individualism and Prospects for Regional
Renewal, Rural Society (11): 283-298.
Gray, I. and Sinclair, P. (2005) 'Local Leaders in a Global Setting: Dependency and Resistance in
Regional New South Wales and Newfoundland', Sociologia Ruralis , 45 (1/2):37-52.
Gray, I., Williams, R. and Phillips, E. (2005) 'Rural community and leadership in the management of natural resources: tensions between theory and policy', Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning , 7 (2): 125-139.
Brown, A.J., Gray, I. and Giorgas, D. (2006) ‘Towards a more regional federalism: rural and urban attitudes to institutions, governance and reform in Australia’, Rural Society , 18 (2):
283-301.
Gray, I. and Alston, M. (2006) 'Regional Development Policy', Farm Policy Journal , 3 (3): 37-43.