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Landscapes of production and punishment: convict labour in the Australian context

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posted on 2023-05-19, 16:57 authored by Tuffin, R, Gibbs, M, Roberts, D, Hamish Maxwell-StewartHamish Maxwell-Stewart, Roe, D, Steele, J, Hood, S, Godfrey, B
This paper presents an interdisciplinary project that uses archaeological and historical sources to explore the formation of a penal landscape in the Australian colonial context. The project focuses on the convict-period legacy of the Tasman Peninsula (Tasmania, Australia), in particular the former penal station of Port Arthur (1830–1877). The research utilises three exceptional data series to examine the impact of convict labour on landscape and the convict body: the archaeological record of the Tasman Peninsula, the life course data of the convicts and the administrative record generated by decades of convict labour management. Through these, the research seeks to demonstrate how changing ideologies affected the processes and outcomes of convict labour and its products, as well as how the landscapes we see today were formed and developed in response to a complex interplay of multi-scalar penological and economic influences.

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Australian Research Council

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Publication title

Journal of Social Archaeology

Volume

18

Pagination

50-76

ISSN

1469-6053

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Sage Publications Ltd

Place of publication

6 Bonhill Street, London, England, Ec2A 4Pu

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Copyright 2017 the Author

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