The Urban Emergence of a New Information Industry: Sydney's Multimedia Firms

This paper analyses the multimedia industry in Sydney. It seeks to understand whether the emergence of the industry has involved dense horizontal and vertical inter‐firm linkages characteristic of an industrial cluster, or whether the industry has grown because of general urbanisation economies related to such factors as skilled labour supply and market demand. The industry is highly concentrated in and around central Sydney. This provides the best access to firms’ main clients, notably advertising companies and other multimedia firms. It also reflects the centralised location of skilled labour such as web designers. While there is evidence of an emerging inner Sydney multimedia cluster which includes graphic design and advertising and related media, the main driver of the industry's development appears to have been general demand from advertising and related media companies, in association with the pool of computer graphics talent generated by these companies.     

Regional development processes and policies in Australia: a review of research 1990–2002

This article offers a selective review of Australian research on regional development. The themes reviewed include divergence and convergence, resource dependent regional growth, the spatial centralization of the economy, spatial divisions, the social construction of regional identity and regional problems, differentiation between the capital cities and between rural areas, indigenous issues, the suburbanization versus centralization debate, the regional effects of economic reform, regional policy debates, and industry clusters. Australia illustrates regional development processes in a low population density, resource dependent, medium sized economy, managed by neo‐liberal economic policies and with limited government intervention in regional policy.     

“Whiteness” and natural resource management: let's talk about race baby,let's talk about sovereignty!

Issues of race and sovereignty are embedded in every cross‐cultural collaboration in natural resource management (NRM). This article aims to bring these issues to the forefront by incorporating the term whiteness. Whiteness enables a critique of the privileging of Western sovereignty and the so‐called objective and universal value of Western science. By reversing the gaze away from the colonised Other and onto systems descended from colonial authority and its inheritors, whiteness identifies how race privilege works. A critical whiteness lens provides an analytical and practical tool for decolonising NRM. We provide a case study of the South Australian Department of Environment and Water to consider how NRM professionals reproduce and deconstruct whiteness in nuanced ways, where (a) participants are defeated by Western sovereignty when whiteness is seen as normal or as the only way; (b) the privilege of Western sovereignty begins to be unsettled; and (c) the gaze is reversed. Thus,Western sovereignty is problematized, and solutions to persistent problems are found in collaboration. We argue that reversing the gaze is a process that opens spaces to co‐develop context specific solutions with Indigenous nations that decolonise cross‐cultural engagement in NRM and respect Indigenous sovereignty.     

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The Oxford Companion to Irish History S. J. Connolly (ed.), 1998 Oxford, Oxford University Press pp. xvii + 618, ISBN 0.19.21 1695.9, £25.00 (hb)

Colonialism, Religion and Nationalism in Ireland Liam Kennedy, 1996 Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies pp. xv + 231, ISBN 085389.621.6, £9.75 (pb)

Rebellion in Wicklow: General Joseph Holt's Personal Account of 1798 Peter O'shaughnessy (ed.), 1998 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 176, ISBN 1.85182.366.2, £9.95 (pb)

Rebellion in Kildare, 1790–1803 Liam Chambers, 1998 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 173, ISBN 1.85182.362.X, £30.00 (hb); ISBN 1.85182.363.8, £9.95 (pb)

The Women of 1798 Daire Keogh & Nicholas Furlong (eds), 1998 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 208, ISBN 1.85182.358.1, £30.00 (hb); ISBN 1.85182.359.X, £9.95 (pb)

Land, Politics and Nationalism: A Study of the Irish Land Question Philip Bull, 1996 Dublin, Gill & Macmillan pp. 242, ISBN 0.7171.2191.7, £14.99 (pb)

James Connolly: Selected Writings Peter Beresford Ellis (ed.), 1997 London, Pluto Press pp. 256, ISBN 0.7453.1279.9, £40.00 (hb); ISBN 0.7453.0267.X, £12.99 (pb)

James Connolly: The Lost Writings Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh (ed.), 1997 London, Pluto Press pp. 256, ISBN 0.7453.1297.7, £45.00 (hb); ISBN 0.7453.1296.9, £13.99 (pb)

Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy 1917 to 1923 Conor Kostick, 1996 London, Pluto Press pp. 248, ISBN 0.7453.1122.9, £40.00 (hb); ISBN 0.7453.1123.7, £13.99 (pb)

The Trouble with Guns: Republican Strategy and the Provisional IRA Malachi O'doherty, 1998 Belfast, Blackstaff pp. 221, ISBN 0.85640.605.8, £11.99 (pb)

Jews in Twentieth Century Ireland: Refugees, Anti‐Semitism and the Holocaust Dermot Keogh, 1998 Cork, Cork University Press pp. 320, ISBN 1.85918.149.X, £45.00 (hb); ISBN 1.85918.3, £16.95 (pb)

Mary Robinson: An Independent Voice John Horgan, 1997 Dublin, O'Brien Press pp. 224, ISBN 0.86278.540.5, £14.99 (hb)

Print and Popular Culture in Ireland Niall Ó Cios´in, 1997 London, Macmillan pp. 249, ISBN 0.333.66684.4, £45.00 (hb)

Power in the Eye: An Introduction to Contemporary Irish Film Terry Byrne, 1997 Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press pp. 231, ISBN 0.8108.3296.8, £32.50 (hb)

Media in Ireland: The Search for Diversity Damien Kiberd (ed.), 1997 Dublin, Open Air/Four Courts Press pp.94, ISBN 1.851182.315.8, IR £6.95 (pb)

Shooting to Kill: Filmmaking and the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland Brian Mcilroy, 1998 Trowbridge, Flicks Books pp. 182, ISBN 0.948911.53.0, £12.95 (pb)

The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement Angus Mitchell (ed.), 1997 London, Anaconda Editions pp. 534, ISBN 1.901990.00.1, £17.98 (pb)

Representing Ireland: Gender, Class, Nationality Susan Shaw Sailer (1997) Gainesville, University Press of Florida pp. xv + 224; 23, ISBN 0.8130.1543.X, £39.95 (hb)

Devils and Angels: Television, Ideology and the Coverage of Poverty Eoin Devereux, 1998 Luton, John Libbey Media/University of Luton Press pp. 174, ISBN 1.86020.545.3, £14.95 (pb)

The Health of the Irish in Britain: The Report of a Community Conference Seeromanie Harding & Gearóid Ó Meachair, 1998 London, Federation of Irish Societies pp. 60, ISBN 0.9533.7191.3, £5.00 (pb)

Elderly Irish People in Britain: A Profile Mary Tilki, 1998 London, Federation of Irish Societies pp. 32, ISBN 0.9533.7192.1, £4.00 (pb)

Report of the London Irish Pensioners Day Hammersmith Irish Centre, 1997 London, Federation of Irish Societies pp. 12, ISBN 0.9533.719.5, £3.00 (pb)

Ideologies of Epic: Nation, Empire and Victorian Epic Poetry Colin Graham, 1998 Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press pp. 194, ISBN 0.7190.5285.8, £40.00 (hb)

The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality and Late‐Victorian Society Michael S. Foldy, 1997 New Haven and London, Yale University Press pp. 206, ISBN 0.300.07112.4, £19.95 (hb)

Oscar Wilde: Trial and Punishment 1895–97 London, Public Record Office, 1998 ISBN 1.873162.50.2, £12.99

Irish Writing on Lafcadio Hcarn and Japan: Writer, Journalist & Teacher Sean G. Ronan (ed.), 1997 Folkestone, Global Oriental pp. 351, ISBN 1.901903.05.2, £16.50 (hb)

James Joyce and Trieste Peter Hartshorn, 1997 Westport, Connecticut and London, Greenwood Press pp. xix + 184, ISBN 0.313.30252.9, £43.95 (hb)

James Joyce and Censorship: The Trials of ‘Ulysses’ Paul Vanderham, 1998 Basingstoke, Macmillan pp. 242, ISBN 0.333.63955.3, £45.00 (hb)

Joyce's Abandoned Female Costumes, Gratefully Received Elisabeth Sheffield, 1998 New Jersey, Associated University Presses pp. 147, ISBN 0.8386.3734.5, £25.00 (hb)

Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O'Brien Anne Clune & Tess Hurson (eds), 1997 Belfast, The Institute of Irish Studies pp. 240, ISBN 0.85389.678.X, £25.00 (hb); ISBN 0.85389.675.5, £12.40 (pb)

Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God Mary Bryden, 1998 London, Macmillan pp. 204, ISBN 0.333.640676.4, £42.50 (hb)

Beckett before Godot John Pilling, 1997 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press pp. 277, ISBN 0.521.46496.X, £37.50 (hb)

Troubled Pleasures: The Fiction of J. G. Farrell Ralph J. Crane & Jennifer Livett, 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 173, ISBN 9.781851.832109, £35.00 (hb)

Irish Love Poems A. Norman Jeffares (ed.), 1997 Dublin, O'Brien Press pp. 192, ISBN 0.86278.514.6, £8.99 (pb)

Francis Ledwidge: The Poems Complete Liam O'meara (ed.), 1997 Newbridge, The Goldsmith Press pp. 312, ISBN 1870.491.475, £15.00 (pb)

After The Ball Breda Sullivan, 1998 Moher, Co. Clare, Salmon Poetry pp. 54, ISBN 1.897649.33.2, £6.99 (pb)

Nominies Ian Duhig, 1998 Newcastle upon Tyne, Bloodaxe Books pp. 64, ISBN 1.85224.457.7, £6.95 (pb)

Famine Desmond Egan, 1997 Co. Kildare, Goldsmith Press pp. 39, ISBN 1.8870491.42.4, £5.95 (pb)

Entering the Mare Katie Donovan, 1997 Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books pp. 78, ISBN 1.85224.429.1, £6.95 (pb)

The Arts and Crafts Movements in Dublin and Edinburgh, 1885–1925 Nicola Gordon Bowe & Elizabeth Cumming, 1998 Dublin, Irish Academic Press pp. 160, ISBN 0.7165.2579.8, £29.50 (hb)

Irish Public Sculpture—A History Judith Hill, 1998 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 302, ISBN 1.85182.274.7, £29.95 (hb)

The Keeper's Recital: Music and Cultural History in Ireland, 1770–1970 Harry White, 1997 Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays and Monographs Series editor Seamus Deane Cork, Cork University Press pp. 227, ISBN 1.85918.171.6, £14.95 (pb)

In Honor of St. Patrick: Chant for His Feast The Schola Cantorum of St Peter's in the Loop Director, J. Michael Thompson, 1998 Collegeville, MN, the Liturgical Press Compact disk, ISBN 0.8146.7927.7, US$14.95 Audio‐cassette, ISBN 0.8146.7926.9, US$11.95

Last Night's Fun: A Book about Music, Food and Time Ciaran Carson, [1996] 1997 London, Jonathan Cape, Pimlico pp. 198, ISBN 0.2240.4141.X, £15.99 (hb); ISBN 0.7126.6252.9, £10.00 (pb)

Celtic Fury Se´n Kenny, 1998 Dublin, Wolfhound Press pp. 288, ISBN 0.86327.607.5, £6.99 (pb)     

Uncertain Legacy: Sydney's Olympic Stadiums

The two main stadiums for the Sydney Olympic Games were developed by the private sector with State assistance to reduce government costs and risks. In the post-Olympic period, both stadiums have experienced major revenue shortfalls which threaten their viability. This has been caused by competition from pre-existing, though smaller, State-owned stadiums and lack of potential major sporting and other events. In part to help the Olympic stadiums, the government produced a masterplan for major urban development at the Olympic Park. This paper illustrates the risks of partnership development of specialized infrastructure, and the way in which special events can lead urban development.     

The Tolsdorff Trials in Traunstein: Public and Judicial Attitudes to the Wehrmacht in the Federal Republic, 1954-60

This article uses the prosecution of former GeneralleutnantTheodor Tolsdorff before the Landgericht Traunstein on threeseparate occasions (June 1954, September 1958 and May/June 1960)as a means of examining both press and judicial attitudes towardsthe Wehrmacht in the Federal Republic from 1954 to 1960. Whatis most surprising about the case is that, while the press reactionsto the first hearing in June 1954 were uniformly critical ofthe guilty verdict, the first retrial in September 1958 provokedattacks on the accused in newspapers, and the abandonment ofthe case under the provisions of the Amnesty Law provoked intensecriticism of the court. The reasons for the differing reactionsin June 1954 and September 1958 are not only to be sought inthe fact that the 1958 verdict came shortly after the closeof the Ulmer Einsatzgruppenprozeβ, but rather in the upsurgein anti-militarism which occurred between September 1954 andFebruary 1955 and the effects on public opinion of the 1957Schörner trial in Munich. When examined against the backgroundof the 1957 Schörner trial and the 1959 Manteuffel trial,the Tolsdorff case indicates not only that attitudes towardsthe Wehrmacht became much more critical during the second halfof the 1950s, but also that these three ‘generals’trials' were part of a broader pattern of proceedings for ‘crimesof the final period’ which played an important psychologicalpart in paving the way for a more honest confrontation withthe mass murder committed during the Third Reich.     

“Soldiers with stiff bodies”: rumors,stereotypes and the Chinese image of the British army during the First Opium War (1839-1842)

ABSTRACT

A curious aspect of the First Opium War was the circulation among Chinese officials of two claims made about British soldiers, instigated by Commissioner Lin Zexu: their uniforms were so tight that if they were to stumble they would not be able to get up again; and, the men were “like fish,” thus able to function well at sea, but not to fight on land because they had become so used to the pitching and rolling of their ships. This article examines the extent to which these notions took on the quality of wartime rumors, and how they spread beyond generals and officials and into the general population. It considers the way in which the rumors functioned in different ways and at different levels of society, taking on different constructions of meaning in multiple social and political domains.