Stories of Crisis: Restructuring Australian Industry and Rewriting the Past*

Metcalfe, Andrew; Bern, John

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.1994.tb00291.x

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“…This process seeks to replace the city's industrial identity with a cleaner, more progressive post-industrial discourse. This reflects Metcalfe and Bern's (1994) observation that Newcastle's past is an arena of struggle through which the city's future identity will be shaped. While Dunn et al .…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 78%

“…This is sympomatic of Newcastle's 'battler' mythology (see Metcalfe and Bern, 1994). To Metcalfe (1993, 1) '[s]tories about Newcastle combine .…”

Section: The Problem With Promise Citymentioning

confidence: 95%

“…The 'torpedoed' reaction resonates with the announced BHP closure as a betrayal of the city by external forces. This is sympomatic of Newcastle's 'battler' mythology (see Metcalfe and Bern, 1994). To Metcalfe (1993, matter of managing our heritage with destiny'.…”

Section: The Problem With Promise Citymentioning

confidence: 96%

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From ‘Problem City’ to ‘Promise City’: Gentrification and the Revitalisation of Newcastle

Rofe

2004

Australian Geographical Studies

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The city of Newcastle is a complex and changing landscape. Once regarded as Australia's 'problem city', Newcastle's identity is being significantly transformed. This identity transformation draws significantly upon the emergence of more cosmopolitan landscapes within inner Newcastle associated with the gentrification of these areas. The discourse of gentrification is inherently post-industrial, providing a cleaner and more positive identity as Newcastle seeks to erase the stigma of its' industrial heritage. However, as landscapes are the amalgam of multiple identities, Newcastle's industrial heritage periodically re-emerges to problematise the city's newly adopted cosmopolitan identity.

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confidence: 78%

“…This is sympomatic of Newcastle's 'battler' mythology (see Metcalfe and Bern, 1994). To Metcalfe (1993, 1) '[s]tories about Newcastle combine .…”

Section: The Problem With Promise Citymentioning

confidence: 95%

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From ‘Problem City’ to ‘Promise City’: Gentrification and the Revitalisation of Newcastle

Rofe

2004

Australian Geographical Studies

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“…The Honeysuckle redevelopment site on Newcastle's waterfront is a prominent example. Research has revealed that the place name Newcastle has communicated a series of meanings throughout the city's history (Metcalfe, 1993;Metcalfe & Bern, 1994;Dunn et al, 1995;Rofe, 2000Rofe, , 2004. Once feˆted as Australia's 'steel city', the decline of the industrial economy throughout the 1980s earned Newcastle the title ''problem city'' (Docherty, 1983, cited in Dunn et al, 1995.…”

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Name Games 1: Place Names as Rhetorical Devices

Rofe

Szili

2009

Landscape Research

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This short communication explores the creation of a new suburb as a crucial strategy in the revitalisation of Port Adelaide, Australia. It contends that the existing suburb names of the area are so stigmatised by the landscape's industrial heritage that the development consortium has elected to create a new suburb rather than embark upon a futile campaign to renegotiate the meaning of these names. Drawing upon discourse analysis and critical landscape theory we contend that place names are rhetorical devices and as such are laden with meaning. As rhetorical devices, place names are neither natural nor neutral. Rather they are instruments of meaning and the ability to control them is directly related to power. This short communication is part of a wider research project on Port Adelaide. It seeks to generate debate amongst landscape academics and practitioners on the politics of landscape revitalisation from an Australian perspective.

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“…Newcastle has long been mythologised, both externally and internally, as a town of 'hard men', of 'working-class heroes' with a tradition of intransigent unionism, of battling sturdy survivors who have overcome constant reverses (economic and natural) by drawing on their sense of community and spirit (Metcalfe, 1994). These representations, as masculinist, exclusionary and partial as they are, are deeply sedimented in local consciousness, part of the shared vernacular meanings and symbolic understandings of Newcastle that merge with its material landscapes to create its place identity.…”

Section: Troublesome Place Identity In Newcastle New South Walesmentioning

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‘Defining Moments’ and Refining Myths in the Making of Place Identity: the Newcastle Knights and the Australian Rugby League Grand Final

McGuirk

Rowe

2001

Australian Geographical Studies

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This paper deals with the role of the media in refashioning place identity and in repositioning places in the cultural system of space. Specifically, it examines as a case study the media coverage of the September 1997 success of the ‘Newcastle Knights’ in the Australian Rugby League Grand Final. This event produced an intriguing moment in the reimagination of the identity of Newcastle (New South Wales), an industrial city undergoing ‘deindustrialisation‘. The paper draws on Hall’s (1997) notion of ‘resemanticisation‘ in repositioning place identity to explore how key elements of Newcastle’s dominant identity myths were utilised by the media in the post‐match media coverage. Traditional industrial narratives of embattled place were merged with the vision of a bright economic future for a re‐identified Newcastle and recoverable elements of Newcastle’s problematic industrial place identity were recast, stripped of their troubling connotations, and deployed in furthering the project of reimagining a prosperous future for the city. The paper thus considers the role of the media and sport in locating and relocating places in the Australian cultural system of space.

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Stories of Crisis: Restructuring Australian Industry and Rewriting the Past*

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

From ‘Problem City’ to ‘Promise City’: Gentrification and the Revitalisation of Newcastle

From ‘Problem City’ to ‘Promise City’: Gentrification and the Revitalisation of Newcastle

Name Games 1: Place Names as Rhetorical Devices

‘Defining Moments’ and Refining Myths in the Making of Place Identity: the Newcastle Knights and the Australian Rugby League Grand Final

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