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Uncovering Carrington, Hilary Winchester, Kevin M. Dunn, Pauline M. Mcguirk
Uncovering Carrington, Hilary Winchester, Kevin M. Dunn, Pauline M. Mcguirk
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
The first part of this chapter examines Carrington's place within Newcastle, its separation from the rest of the city, its reputation, and its internal differentiation. The second part of this chapter considers the collective memory of Carrington as a stigmatised and dangerous industrial and maritime space with its own internal social and spatial divisions.
Carrington: Community Of Difference?, Hilary Winchester, Pauline M. Mcguirk, Angela Parkes, Kevin M. Dunn
Carrington: Community Of Difference?, Hilary Winchester, Pauline M. Mcguirk, Angela Parkes, Kevin M. Dunn
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Newcastle is a city redolent with images. Perhaps the most dominant of these is of a male industrial working environment deriving from the days of the 'coally seaport', while other aspects of its identity, such as the female and the Aboriginal, are suppressed and obscured (Dunn et al., 1995). Another recurrent image is of profound community, of solidaritty. This is evident in the 'Our Town' epithet applied to numerous local businesses. 5uch an image is portrayed in the cartoon by Eggleston, where the SS Newcastle is under siege from economic, political and physical forces, where the (all male) inhabitants, clinging …