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Landscapes of production and punishment: convict labour in the Australian context
Citation
Tuffin, R and Gibbs, M and Roberts, D and Maxwell-Stewart, H and Roe, D and Steele, J and Hood, S and Godfrey, B, Landscapes of production and punishment: convict labour in the Australian context, Journal of Social Archaeology, 18, (1) pp. 50-76. ISSN 1469-6053 (2018) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1177/1469605317748387
Abstract
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.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | convicts, penal history, historical archaeology, history, colonial Australia |
Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Historical studies |
Research Field: | Australian history |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
UTAS Author: | Maxwell-Stewart, H (Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart) |
ID Code: | 125077 |
Year Published: | 2018 |
Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (DP170103642) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 19 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2018-03-27 |
Last Modified: | 2018-12-04 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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