TY - JOUR
T1 - National capital bureaucracy as a spatial phenomenon
T2 - The place of Canberra within the Australian public service
AU - Beer, Chris
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - Emphasizing bureaucracy as a communicative phenomenon involving localized knowledge-or metis-this article examines the place of the national capital city of Australia, Canberra, within the geographies of the Australian Public Service. First, drawing on research into knowledge clusters, the city is viewed as a key place of certain forms of communicative interaction. Second, drawing on the concept of metis, Canberra is discussed as a place potentially out of touch with the rest of Australia in terms of this form of knowledge but also as an essential site of accumulating metis essential to career progression within the national bureaucracy.
AB - Emphasizing bureaucracy as a communicative phenomenon involving localized knowledge-or metis-this article examines the place of the national capital city of Australia, Canberra, within the geographies of the Australian Public Service. First, drawing on research into knowledge clusters, the city is viewed as a key place of certain forms of communicative interaction. Second, drawing on the concept of metis, Canberra is discussed as a place potentially out of touch with the rest of Australia in terms of this form of knowledge but also as an essential site of accumulating metis essential to career progression within the national bureaucracy.
KW - Administrative geographies
KW - Australian public service
KW - Bureaucracy
KW - Canberra
KW - Localized knowledge/Metis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=74349108064&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0095399709341234
DO - 10.1177/0095399709341234
M3 - Article
SN - 0095-3997
VL - 41
SP - 693
EP - 714
JO - Administration and Society
JF - Administration and Society
IS - 6
ER -