Casella, E. and Fennelly, K.L. orcid.org/0000-0002-4884-6043 (2016) Ghosts of Sorrow, Sin and Crime: Dark Tourism and Convict Heritage in Van Diemen’s Land, Australia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. ISSN 1092-7697
Abstract
Established as a British imperial penal colony, Van Diemen’s Land received approximately 75,000 convicts before cessation of convict transportation in 1853. A vast network of penal stations and institutions were created to accommodate, employ, administer, and discipline these exiled felons. Popular interpretations of Australia’s convict past highlight dynamics of shame, avoidance and active obliteration that characterized Australia’s relationship to its recent convict past. Yet, closer examination of these colonial institutions suggests a far more ambivalent relationship with this ‘dark heritage’, evidenced by continuous tourism and visitation to these places of pain and shame from the mid-19th century to the present day.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2016 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | institutions; dark tourism; penal; colonial archaeology; Australia |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Archaeology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2016 12:20 |
Last Modified: | 08 Aug 2016 12:20 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10761-016-0354-5 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10761-016-0354-5 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:103094 |