Delinquent Girls as Activists: Insider Activism and Carceral Welfare

Autor:	Bree Carlton, Jacqueline Wilson
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	activism child welfare Urban Studies Cultural Studies Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Sites of Conscience Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Geography Planning and Development female incarceration Parramatta Female Factory Precinct child incarceration care-leavers
Zdroj:	Space and Culture. 25:245-254
ISSN:	1552-8308 1206-3312
DOI:	10.1177/12063312211066542
Popis:	The article examines the motivation and role of the insider activism that resulted in the preservation of a major historical site of female incarceration, the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct, in suburban Sydney. For much of the 20th century the site was a “Girls’ Home,” in which children who had committed no offense were incarcerated under child welfare regulations and literally treated like criminals. Life in the institution was characterized by routine extreme maltreatment of children, many of whom have carried the psychological legacy of their time there throughout their lives. A group of survivors, moved to preserve and reclaim the space, spent many years contending with obdurate and indifferent bureaucracies before successfully having the site Heritage-listed, and it is now a member of the international Sites of Conscience. The Precinct’s significance as a site of feminist carceral history is discussed, and its place in today’s cultural landscape examined.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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