BIOGRAPHY - Neil Argent

Participation in the Network's Paradigm and Applications Working Group (select the appropriate options)

Paradigm Working Groups

 Socio-spatial theory

 Methodologies, tools and techniques

 Scenarios and forecasting

 Sources, data quality and data integration

Application Working Groups

 National and regional socio-economic change

 Population, economic and information flows

 Social and economic networks

 Regional development and community capacity building

 Behaviour and well-being in socio-spatial settings

Publication 1:

Argent, N. 1999, Inside the Black Box: Dimensions of Gender, Generation and Scale in the Australian Rural Restructuring Process, Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1-15.

Publication 2:

Argent, N. and F. Rolley 2000, Financial Exclusion in Rural and Remote New South Wales: A Geography of Bank Branch Rationalisation, 1981-1998, Australian Geographical Studies, Vol. 38, 182-203.

Publication 3:

Argent, N. and F. Rolley 2000, “Lopping the Branches: Bank Branch Closure and Rural Australian Communities” in Land of Discontent, Pritchard, B. and P. McManus (Eds.), University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 140-168.

Publication 4:

Argent, N. 2002, From Pillar to Post? In Search of the Post-Productivist Countryside in Australia, Australian Geographer, Vol. 33, No. 1, 97-114.

Publication 5:

Argent, N. 2002, A Global Model or a Scaled-Down Version? Geographies of convergence and divergence in the Australian retail banking sector, Geoforum, Vol. 33, No. 3, 315-334.

Publication 6:

Smailes, P., N. Argent and T. Griffin 2002, Rural Population Density: Its impact on social and demographic aspects of rural communities, Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 18, pp. 385-404.

Publication 7:

Smailes, P., T. Griffin and N. Argent 2004, “The Changing Social Framework” in Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia, Cocklin, C. and J. Dibden (Eds.), UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 80-102.

Publication 8:

Argent, N. and F. Rolley 2006, “Inhabiting the margins: A geography of rural homelessness in Australia” in International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness, Cloke, P. and P. Milbourne (Eds.), Routledge, London, in press.

Publication 9:

Argent, N. 2005, The Neoliberal Seduction: Governing-At-A-Distance, Community Development and the Battle Over Regional Financial Provision in Australia, Australian Geographical Studies, Vol. 43, pp. 29-39.

Publication 10:

Argent, N., P. Smailes and T. Griffin 2006, Tracing the Density Impulse: population density as a constitutive influence in Australia contemporary population and settlement geography, Population and Environment, in press.

Current Research 1:

Rural migration trends, patterns and causes

Current Research 2:

Social change in rural communities

Current Research 3:

Population density

Current Research 4:

Spatial theory