Constructing places for the market: The case of Newcastle,NSW

Abstract

Cities with a heritage of heavy industry, such as Newcastle (NSW), face an insecure future as they undergo economic restructuring. The identities of cities are being refashioned by entrepreneurial urban governments, as part of a three‐pronged attempt to market their territories. A social construction approach reveals the problematic nature of these symbolic reconstructions, their partiality, the reduction of heritage to a commodity, and the eliding of socio‐economic disadvantage. The new post‐industrial identity for Newcastle disinherits working people, ignores the local indigenous peoples, and trivialises the role of women. The richly layered urban landscape and historically constructed narratives – the local heritage – have been cynically appropriated and transformed for the purposes of place marketing. The rhetoric of post‐industrialism conceals poverty and alienation, and the associated physical restructurings are displacing service‐dependent populations.     

Book Reviews

The Cinema of Eisenstein. By David Bordwell (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993) xvii + 316 pp. $65.00 doth $29.95 paper.

On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent and the Limits of Society. By A. John Simmons (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993) ix + 293 pp. n.p.g.

Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge, and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain. By Richard Yeo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) xii + 280 pp. $54.95 cloth.

Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Philosophy of Meaning. By D. T. Goldberg (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1993) 313 pp. n.p.g.

The Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta, Ancient Constitution, and the Anglo‐American Tradition of Rule of Law. Edited and with an introduction by Ellis Sandoz (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1993) 335 pp. £35.00

Refaire la République: André Tardieu, une dérive réactionaire (1876–1945). By François Monnet (Paris: Fayard, 1993) 638 pp. FF190 paper.

Ethics With Aristotle. By Sarah Broadie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) xiii + 462 pp. £17.95 paper.

Wittgenstein: Rethinking the Inner. By Paul Johnston (London: Routledge, 1993) x + 253 pp. n.p.g.

History after Lacan. By Teresa Brennan (London and New York: Routledge, 1993) xvi + 239 pp. £10.99 paper.

Gendered Community: Rousseau, Sex, and Politics. By Penny A. Weiss (New York: New York University Press, 1993) 250 pps. $40.00 cloth.

Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo‐British Identity, 1689‐c. 1830. By Colin Kidd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) 322 + xiii pp. £35.00 $64.95 cloth.

The American Research University. In Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 122:4 (Fall 1993) 252 pp. $7.95.

Hebrew and the Bible in America: The First Two Centuries. Edited by Shalom Goldman (Brandeis University Press and Dartmouth College: University Press of New England, 1993) xxx + 259 pp. n.p.g.

The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime: Elizabethan Politics, 1558–1572. By Wallace T. MacCaffrey (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968, reprinted 1993) xiv + 501 pp. paper, n.p.g.

Reality, Representation and Projection. Edited by John Haldane and Crispin Wright (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) xii + 404 pp. cloth, n.p.g.

Von der Theologie der Befreiung zur Philosophie der Freiheit: Hegel und die Religion. By Wolfgang Bialas (Freiburg: Universitätsverlag, 1993 168 pp.

A Normative Approach to War: Peace, War and Justice in Hugo Grotius. Edited by Yasuaki Onuma (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993) xvii + 421 pp. £45.00.

Heidegger im Kontext. Gesamtüberblick zum NS‐Engagement der Universitätsphilosophen. By George Leaman (Hamburg: Argument, 1993) 160 pp. DM 15.50 paper.

Two Texts on Human Nature. By Francis Hutcheson, edited by Thomas Mautner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp., 194 + xiv £30.00 cloth.

From Freud's Consulting Room: The Unconscious in a Scientific Age. By Judith M. Hughes (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994) 235 pp. $27.95 cloth.

Marketing Modernism in Fin‐de‐Siècle Europe. By Robert Jensen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) vii + 367 pp. $29.95/£19.95 cloth.

Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity. By David G. Horn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) 189 pp. £37.50/ $14.95 cloth £11.95/paper.

Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium. By Patrick J. Geary (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) xiv + 248 pp. $29.95 cloth.

History Continues. By Georges Duby, trans, by Arthur Goldhammer, with a forward by John W. Boldwin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) £19.95/$28.75 H.B.

Imagination and Depth in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason . By Bernard D. Freydberg (New York: Peter Lang, 1994) 123 pp. $37.95 cloth.

Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy. By Robert Bonfil, trans, by Anthony Oldcorn (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994) xiii + 230 pp. $30.00 cloth.

Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy. By Richard S. Wortman, vol. 1 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) xiii + 469 pp. $49.50, £35.00 cloth.

Essays on Architecture, 1796–1799. By Friedrich Gilly, introduction by Neumeyer, trans. by David Britt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) 228 pp. $39.95 cloth $24.95 paper.

Désordres du jeu. Poétiques ludiques, Recherches et rencontres. By Publications de la Faculté des lettres de Genève, vol. 6. Edited by Jacques Berchtold, Christopher Lucken, and Stefan Schoettke (Geneva: Droz, 1994) 260 pp.

The Elect Nation: The Savonarolan Movement in Florence 1494–1545. By Lorenzo Polizzotto (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) 488 pp. £50.00 cloth.

Ramon Llull ou . . . les premiers jalons d'une Europe tolérante. By Gabriel Fragnière (Brussels: Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes, 1994) 92 pp. n.p.g.

Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais. By Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1993 & 1994) 229 pp. $37.50 cloth $18.95 paper.

Invisible Leviathan: The Marxist Critique of Market Despotism beyond Postmodernism. By Murray E. G. Smith (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1994) 272 pp. $55.00/£36.00 cloth $24.95/ £16.00 paper.

An Economic History of Medieval Europe. By Norman J. G. Pounds, 2nd ed. (London and New York: Longman House, 1994) xvi + 536 pp. $29.95/£16.99 paper.

Locke's Philosophy: Content and Context. Edited by G. A. J. Rogers (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) 257 pp. £30.00 cloth.

The Culture of the English People, Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution. By N. J. G. Pounds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) xviii + 477 pp. $69.95/£50.00 cloth $22.95/£17.95 paper.

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre. By David Duff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) xii + 276 pp. £35.00/$54.95 cloth.

Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED. By John Willinsky (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) ix + 258 pp. $22.95 cloth.

Self‐Motion: From Aristotle to Newton. By Mary Louise Gill and James G. Lennox (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) xxi + 367 pp. $45.00/£36.50 cloth.

Honor. By Frank Henderson Stewart (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994) xiii + 175 pp. £9.50/$ 13.75 cloth.

Conflict and Cohesion in Western European Social Democratic Parties. Edited by David S. Bell and Eric Shaw (London: Pinter Publishers, 1994) 202 pp. $49.00 cloth.

Communism: The Vanished Specter. By Richard Pipes (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) 84 pp. £14.50.

The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority. By John Patrick Diggins (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994) 515 pp. £23.95/$29.95 cloth.

Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism. By Elliot R. Wolfson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) 452 pp. $49.50.

Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa. By Saul Dubow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) xxi + 320 pp. £40.00/$64.95 cloth £15.95/$21.95 paper.

The Barbed‐Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States During World War II. By Ron Robin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) x + 217 pp. $29.95

Soldier Heroes, British Adventure, Empire, and the Imagining of Masculinity. By Graham Dawson (London: Routledge, 1995) 290 pp. £14.95 paper.

Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780–1930. By Carolyn Steedman (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995) xi + 254 pp. $29.95.

Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth‐Century Germany. By Fania Oz‐Salzberger (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) ix + 356 pp. £35.00.

The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment. By Rose‐Mary Sargent (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 335 pp. $65.00/£51.95 cloth $26.00/£20.75 paper.

La Modernité By Alexis Nouss, (Paris: PUF, 1995) 128 pp. paper, n.p.g.     

The Emergence of Early Pottery in East Asia: New Discoveries and Perspectives

Journal of World Prehistory - The appearance of the oldest pottery in the world is a major focus of Early Neolithic archaeology. So far, most discoveries of early pottery have occurred in South...     

Investigation on the Yinjiawopu Site,a Medieval Salt Production Workshop in Northeast China

In 2014 and 2015, the Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology at Jilin University and the Jilin Province Archaeological Research Institute jointly conducted two excavations at the Yinjiawopu Site, in Da’an City, Jilin Province, Northeast China. One burial, two canals, five leaching pits, two house-foundations, four hearths, 103 pits, two ditches, and over 800 pieces of artifacts dated from the 12th to the 13th centuries a.d. (the Liao-Jin period) were found. Analysis shows that these features belong to a salt production workshop. This study marks the first discovery of a salt production site in Northeast China. The archaeological, ethnographic, and historical materials from the site allow a reconstruction of the chaîne opératoire of salt-making by the inhabitants of the Northeast China Plain during this period. This study sheds light on the exchange and control of salt, on the activities and daily life of the inhabitants of the region, and on their relationship with the environment.