The Global Versus the Local: Modeling the British System of Convict Transportation After 1830

Winter, Sean

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6211-8_9

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“…Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies (2011) have conducted an overview of the operation of the convict system through an archaeological lens. Sean Winter (2013) has placed Western Australia’s convict system within a wider global context, and Richard Tuffin (2013) has formulated an analytical framework for the characterisation and study of places of convict labour. There have been some outstanding surveys of Tasmanian probation stations (Parham and Noble, 1994; Thompson, 2007), and Greg Jackman (2001) has placed the boys’ prison of Point Puer, Tasmania, within an imperial labour and penological framework.…”

Section: The Historiography Of Convict Labourmentioning

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

Tuffin

Gibbs

Roberts

et al. 2018

Journal of Social Archaeology

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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. 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.

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Section: The Historiography Of Convict Labourmentioning

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

Tuffin

Gibbs

Roberts

et al. 2018

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…The global model and history of British transportation in Australia has been previously characterised by others (see Maxwell‐Stewart ; Pearson ; Winter ). The British system of convict transportation brought people, information and goods to a number of penal colonies across the globe (Winter ). British colonisers had a vision for the isolated settlement at Port Arthur, based on a combination of ideological views and practices surrounding punishment and reform, as well as a global model of economic gain (Kerr ).…”

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Everyday artefacts: subsistence and quality of life at the Prisoner Barracks, Port Arthur, Tasmania

D'Gluyas

Gibbs²,

Hamilton

et al. 2015

Archaeology in Oceania

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This study focuses on the archaeology of the c. Prisoner Barracks constructed at Port Arthur, the domestic quarters for civilian, military and incarcerated occupants spanning almost the entire convict period. Faunal and artefact analyses of the assemblage uncovered at this site were used to provide a more complex understanding of institutional life. The quality of life of the occupants, and how they chose to improve it, is identified through a range of documentary and archaeological sources. It is shown that the barracks complex was a place of domestic life within the confines of an institution. It is evident in the material culture that everyday activities of occupants included the preparation of food, presentation of the home and self, manual tasks such as the production of domestic items, and recreational activities including tobacco smoking and hunting. By assessing indicators of quality of life within an institutional framework, namely the supply of local and imported goods and the material culture of recreation, this work is able to explore potential activities of the occupants that are often hidden from official records. This is examined through a number of scalar units, considering global, local and individual perspectives of the Prisoner Barracks' landscape.

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Legislation, ideology and personal agency in the Western Australian penal colony

Winter

2013

World Archaeology

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The Global Versus the Local: Modeling the British System of Convict Transportation After 1830

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

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

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

Everyday artefacts: subsistence and quality of life at the Prisoner Barracks, Port Arthur, Tasmania

Legislation, ideology and personal agency in the Western Australian penal colony

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