TY - JOUR
T1 - “Born to be a Stoway”
T2 - Inscriptions, Graffiti, and the Rupture of Space at the North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney
AU - Clarke, Anne
AU - Frederick, Ursula K.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research for this paper was undertaken as part of the Quarantine Project (2012–2015) funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (LP 102200259). We also gratefully acknowledge the Australian Research Council, the Mawland Group and the University of Sydney for the funding of our cross-disciplinary Linkage project. We thank the Mawland Group who are the Industry Partners on this grant for supporting the research. We also thank the National Parks and Wildlife Service, New South Wales for access to the North Head Quarantine Station and Old Man’s Hat. Vannessa Hearman from the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney for interpreting Indonesian inscriptions, and Maria Sin from the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at Hong Kong University for interpreting Chinese inscriptions. We thank our Quarantine Project colleagues Alison Bashford, Peter Hobbins and Rebecca Anderson for their support and input to our discussions about the Quarantine Station. We thank our field assistants Charlotte Feakins and Andrew Crisp for their field recordings and on-site discussions of the A20 graffiti and Q Station visitor guide Martin Brennan for his contribution to pictorial research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - Quarantine was used by British colonial authorities and later by Australian governments to manage and control the introduction of infectious diseases. Facilities at North Head, Manly, New South Wales, were initially built as a specialist institution but as the need for mass quarantine declined over time, the site was used for other forms of social regulation and welfare. This paper explores an enduring tradition of memorialization, commemoration, and in some instances, resistance to the conditions of isolation and confinement found in the mark-making practices of people held at the Quarantine Station from the 1830s to the 1970s.
AB - Quarantine was used by British colonial authorities and later by Australian governments to manage and control the introduction of infectious diseases. Facilities at North Head, Manly, New South Wales, were initially built as a specialist institution but as the need for mass quarantine declined over time, the site was used for other forms of social regulation and welfare. This paper explores an enduring tradition of memorialization, commemoration, and in some instances, resistance to the conditions of isolation and confinement found in the mark-making practices of people held at the Quarantine Station from the 1830s to the 1970s.
KW - Australia
KW - Detention
KW - Graffiti
KW - Inscriptions
KW - Quarantine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84979211214&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10761-016-0357-2
DO - 10.1007/s10761-016-0357-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84979211214
SN - 1092-7697
VL - 20
SP - 521
EP - 535
JO - International Journal of Historical Archaeology
JF - International Journal of Historical Archaeology
IS - 3
ER -