Landscapes of Production and Punishment: Convict labour in the Australian context

Tuffin, Richard, Gibbs, Martin, Roberts, David, Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish, Roe, David, Steele, Jody, Hood, Susan and Godfrey, Barry ORCID: 0000-0002-4119-5137 (2018) Landscapes of Production and Punishment: Convict labour in the Australian context. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 18 (1). pp. 50-76.

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Abstract

<jats:p> 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. </jats:p><jats:p> Areas of inquiry: Australian convict archaeology and history. The archaeology and history of Australian convict labour management. The archaeology and history of the Tasman Peninsula. </jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Convicts, incarceration, convict labour, Port Arthur, industry, Australia
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	07 Aug 2020 10:19
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 01:14
DOI:	10.1177/1469605317748387
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3027605