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Heritage conservation and the transformation of institutions of incarceration into community arts centers in postcolonial Australia

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posted on 2023-05-24, 05:27 authored by Katherine Darian-SmithKatherine Darian-Smith
The connections between community and heritage may appear self-evident, and both concepts are often used vaguely and emotively when it comes to understanding identity and place (Crooke 2010). Yet public responses to the preservation and management of historic buildings and land­scapes are often complex and unsettled, and especially so when such sites have a contested his­tory that still exists within living memory. This chapter examines how community-led heritage initiatives and the adaptive re-use of historic sites for the purposes of arts and entertainment can foster community reconciliation with places long associated with 'difficult' histories, including colonial violence, imprisonment, the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the mistreatment of women and children. Through its focus on Australian case studies of colonial sites, this chapter raises broader issues about the centrality of heritage conservation and interpretation to the re-purposing of once grim and foreboding historic buildings into places of community value and identity.

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Publication title

Global Perspectives in Heritage Conservation: Expansive Scopes, Plural Engagements, Empathetic Approaches

Editors

V Bharne and T Sandmeier

Pagination

379-393

ISBN

9781138962989

Department/School

College Office - College of Arts, Law and Education

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

London

Extent

30

Rights statement

Copyright 2019 Vinayak Bharne and Trudi Sandmeier

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Conserving the historic environment

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