Grassroots activism heritage and the cultural Landscape: The loud fences campaign
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Reeves, Keir
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: What Is Public History Globally?: Working with the past in the present Chapter 19 p.251–264
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- Description: The meaning of cultural, or historic, landscape resides in both its aesthetic qualities and the memories and experiences it embodies. Cultural landscape is a complex of interwoven expressions of ideas, ideals, ideologies and aspirations, of layered and contested narratives, of shifting community identity. The connotations of a landscape are often highly personal, while simultaneously reflecting broad public values and sensibilities. This is especially true in the case of revered institutions of the sort that combine a key role in community history, a consciously profound aesthetic quality and a central place in the community’s spiritual life. Wherever it is present, the Roman Catholic church has long held a deeply significant place in the cultural landscape, in local history-making and in the urban aesthetic. Everywhere the church is strong in terms of numbers of the faithful; its ‘penetration’ of the social environment makes it highly visible, highly potent as a social agent and centrally important to the local social memory, even among non-Catholic and secular populations. The church embodies tacit narratives of moral and spiritual guidance and of participation in and shaping of the growth of communities’ civic historical identity – a dynamic relational status that exemplifies what has been termed ‘authorized heritage discourse’.[1]252 This notion of heritage as officially sanctioned practice bound up with the community’s defining narratives reveals something of a paradox. The very aspects by which it contributes to social stability and identity also render it vulnerable to the socially disruptive effects of any contestation of those narratives, especially when that contestation is revealed in ways that resonate with people’s personal connection with a collective historical consciousness. This chapter addresses some of the processes involved, and the issues that arise, when such disruptive histories become public fare."From introduction"
Lost and found: Counter-narratives of Dis/Located children
- Authors: Golding, Frank , Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Children’s voices from the past Chapter 13 p. 305-329
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- Description: Conventional histories of children in institutional care are dominated by official voices justifying a coercive welfare system which isolated children from their families and silenced them publicly. But a succession of formal inquiries has motivated survivors of institutionalised childhoods to testify about atrocious maltreatment. Freedom of Information legislation gave survivors incentives to understand their time in “care” and to reconnect with families. However, many found personal records missing, while those that were located were woefully inadequate, often inaccurate, and painfully pejorative. Care-leavers are now asserting a developing counter-narrative that challenges the dominant narrative of previous eras. This chapter summarises a case that goes beyond traditional welfare archives to reveal a story of multi-generational welfare custody, exemplifying the historic ideology underpinning child welfare in Victoria.
Personalised narratives of war and teaching engaging history
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Reeves, Keir
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Historical Thinking for History Teachers : A New Approach to Engaging Students and Developing Historical Consciousness p. 180-193
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Remembering dark pasts and horrific places: Sites of conscience
- Authors: Ashton, Paul , Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: What is Public History Globally? Working with the past in the present 21 p. 281-294
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- Description: In 1947, the Polish government decreed that what remained of the Auschwitz-Birkenau-Monowitz death camps was to be kept to memorialize ‘the martyrdom of the Polish nation and other peoples’ under the Third Reich during the Second World War.
- Description: In 1947, the Polish government decreed that what remained of the Auschwitz-Birkenau-Monowitz death camps was to be kept to memorialize ‘the martyrdom of the Polish nation and other peoples’ under the Third Reich during the Second World War. The O
Strengthening the evidence base to improve educational outcomes for Australians in out-of-home care
- Authors: Harvey, Andrew , Wilson, Jacqueline , Andrewartha, Lisa
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Education in out-of-home care : international perspectives on policy, practice and research p. 47-60
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- Description: Postsecondary education outcomes of Australian care leavers are not systematically documented. Complexities of a federal system of government, and the early conclusion of corporate parenting responsibilities (usually when those in care reach 18 years of age) have restricted the ability to track educational progress. Historically, a lack of national data on care leavers in higher education has contributed to policy inertia and a culture of low educational expectations and outcomes. Extending the quantitative evidence base is critical to improving these outcomes and developing targeted postsecondary education policies. In this chapter we highlight ongoing legislative and policy challenges, but also explore recent policy reforms developed following three collaborative research projects. Major challenges remain to extend corporate parenting responsibilities, recast the national student equity framework, revise tertiary application processes, redesign institutional enrolment forms, and use fee waiver and bursary provisions to identify and track postsecondary care leaver students. However, we also outline recent progress in many of these areas, suggesting growing support for a stronger evidence base and better educational outcomes.
The “perfect score” : the burden of educational elitism on children in out-of-home care
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Harvey, Andrew , Goodwin-Burns, Pearl , Humphries, Joanna
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Education in out-of-home care : international perspectives on policy, practice and research p. 211-223
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- Description: Annual media attention in Australia on the students and schools with the highest scores in the final year of secondary education (Year 12) promotes a narrow and elitist perception of the educational value of such statistical achievement. This in turn leaves disadvantaged students and their schools effectively stigmatised. Various disadvantaged groups benefit from equalising processes built into the senior-year system, but children in or recently discharged from out-of-home care (OHC) and adults who were in care as children are excluded from the official list of “equity” groups at secondary and tertiary levels. A very small percentage of those in OHC complete secondary school successfully, and even fewer care-leavers attempt tertiary education. We argue that the elitist ethos embraced by the secondary education system and legitimised by the media plays a key role in disadvantaging these groups. We examine as case studies the media coverage of final secondary results, juxtaposed with the experiences of several care-leavers currently attending a regional university, as gleaned from in-depth interviews and enrolment data-analysis. These accounts consistently affirm an array of systemic and cultural obstacles to the successful pursuit of their education.
Introduction : Prison tourism in context
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Hodgkinson, Sarah , Piche, Justin , Walby, Kevin
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology series) Chapter 1 p. 1-12
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- Description: The advent of a Handbook of Prison Tourism, and one of such depth and scope as this volume, is testimony to the extraordinary rise in scholarly interest in a field that barely a decade ago supported only a handful of researchers. It is testimony too, not only to the global ubiquity of former sites of imprisonment as tourist attractions, but also to the centrality of prisons, and the concept of incarceration as a dominant mode of administering justice that spans cultures and nations. In modern liberal democracies based on and notionally wedded to principles of individual liberty as core legal and societal precepts, it is unsurprising that imprisonment is regarded by many as a fair and just response to individuals’ transgression against society. In an age when many believe in the principle that “the punishment should fit the crime,” the imposition of a prison sentence for a variety of offenses rarely raises questions.
Representing political oppression : The Stasi Prison as an edifice of cultural memory in modern Berlin
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Boyle, Ian
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology series) Chapter 24 p. 497-515
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- Description: In June of 2015 during a stay in Berlin we visited, on successive days, the Stasi Museum and the Stasi Prison, in former East Berlin. The Stasi Prison operated as a remand and interrogation facility continually from immediately after World War II until the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dismantling of the communist regime in East Germany. Virtually all of the many thousands of citizens who populated the Prison during those four decades were political prisoners, and as such the representation of their experience in the site provides important insights into the nature of the regime and its impact on daily life. The Stasi Museum is in the former headquarters of the East German Ministry for State Security in the Berlin suburb of Lichtenberg, and provides a highly engaging representation of the Ministry’s history, bureaucratic structure and activities (see Stasi Museum 2016). It also furnished us with valuable social and historical background for visiting the Stasi Prison the following day. The account we give in this chapter, however, focuses entirely on our experience of the Prison. The tour we did there was guided by a German national but was conducted in English.
Visual criminology and cultural memory : The aestheticization of boat people
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology Chapter 31 p. 404-415
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- Description: As criminologists Jeff Ferrell and Cécile Van de Voorde (2010: 40) have said, “the photodocumentary tradition embodies a tension that has long bedevilled criminology and other “social sciences”: that between objective inquiry and subjective analysis.” Documentary photographers, they argue, while employing a device “designed to capture the visual reality of an event”, nevertheless are very much mediators of that reality, “us[ing] their photographic skills to interpret and communicate these events, and so force the viewers … into visual confrontations with horror, violence, injustice and death.” But, as the following discussion will show, those “confrontations” can all too easily be compromised and even negated, both by those very same skills and by the motivation of others to exploit them.
Muddling upwards : The unexpected, unpredictable and strange on the path from care to high achievement in Victoria, Australia
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Golding, Frank
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care: International Research, Policy and Practice Chapter 7 p. 135-154
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- Description: Education is a key avenue to personal, social and economic success; and its lack can lead to lifelong deprivation and social exclusion. The chapter focuses on the specific educational challenges that confront children in out-of-home care (OHC), and those who have been discharged from Care as young adults. A very small percentage of care leavers complete education, and some of the core reasons for this are discussed. The two authors, themselves care leavers, provide emblematic case studies by recounting their own experiences. They conclude that many of the obstacles they had to surmount were, and are, common to care leavers of their generations and also those currently in OHC. The chapter closes with a brief summary of policy reforms necessary to ensure educational equity for care leavers. © The Author(s) 2016.
Prison inmate graffiti
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Routledge handbook of graffiti and street art Chapter 5 p. 61-77
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- Description: Routledge handbook of graffiti and street art integrates and reviews current scholarship in the field of graffiti and street art. Thirty-five original contributions are organized around four parts: History, types, and writers/artists of graffiti and street art; Theoretical explanations of graffiti and street art/causes of graffiti and street art; Regional/municipal variations/differences of graffiti and street art; Effects of graffiti and street art. Chapters are written by experts from different countries throughout the world and their expertise spans the fields of American Studies, Art Theory, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Ethnography, Photography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Visual Communication. The handbook will be of interest to researchers, instructors, advanced students, libraries, and art gallery and museum curators. This book is also accessible to practitioners and policy makers in the fields of criminal justice, law enforcement, art history, museum studies, tourism studies, and urban studies as well as members of the news media. The handbook includes 92 images, a glossary, and a chronology, and the electronic edition will be widely hyperlinked.
Contested memories : Caring about the past - or past caring?
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Golding, Frank
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Apologies and the legacy of abuse of children in 'care' : International perspectives p. i-217
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- Description: This chapter examines the range and form of narratives that give voice to approximately 500,000 'Forgotten Australians' who experienced out-of-home 'care' as children under the auspices of state government departments and/or non-government charitable organisations. These narratives are derived from the work of stakeholder support groups, official inquiries and academic historians. Among those working in this field, the authors have the unusual advantage of being both stakeholders and academics. They experienced out-of-home care as children and therefore qualify as Forgotten Australians, and are among the small number of care-leavers to have established academic careers. The few academics who come from care-leaver backgrounds attest to the manifold life-obstacles care-leavers encounter and the enduring 'headwinds' they must face in pursuing relatively unremarkable goals and aspirations, long after leaving care. It is this abiding personal burden that makes the task of restoring to them their voices, through the collection and propagation of their narratives, both necessary and urgent.
Don't mention the "F" word: Using images of transgressive texts to gendered history
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Feminist pedagogy in Higher Education p. 221-244
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- Description: The increasing use of Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) surveys by university administrators to assess teacher performance presents special problems for female academics, especially those who teach feminist or gender-focused topics. I teach history course comprising just such aspects. My problems are compounded by the fact that I work in a rural university whose student cohort tends toward a socially conservative outlook. This essay summarizes these multilayered issues and presents an outline of a lecture aimed at introducing students to feminism (the forbidden "f" word) and feminist concepts by stealth, as it were, through the use of photographs taken during my fieldwork research in historical prisons across Australia. I begin with images and discussion of historical prison architecture; then I take students "inside" the prisons via examples of inmate graffiti, in the hope of generating insight into the experiences of inmates. Graffiti created by inmate both male and, crucially, female, afford students glimpses into the concerns and daily sensibilities of both groups. In the process, students come to understand the need for a gendered approach to the topic, and some of the problems associated with SET surveys are resolved.
Introduction: A working-class world-view in an Academic environment
- Authors: Michell, Dee , Wilson, Jacqueline , Archer, Verity
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Bread and Roses: Voices of Australian Academic from the working class p. vii-3
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Introduction: new context in Australian public history: Australia's institutionalised and incarcerated
- Authors: Ashton, Paul , Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of Women and Children p. ix-xiv
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- Description: During the twentieth century in Australia more than half-a-million children grew up in 'out-of-home' care in over 800 institutions, including children's homes, foster homes, industrial schools and orphanages. A regime of mass institutionalisation was sanctioned by legislation and administered by either the state or by non-government bodies such as churches and welfare groups. Around 7,000 children were child migrants from Britain, Ireland and Malta; up to 50,000 were Indigenous 'Stolen' children and more than 450,000 were non-Indigenous children. The contributions to this groundbreaking book constitute an eclectic mix of scholarship drawn from a diverse group of historians, social scientists, artists, performers, freelance writers and stakeholders, including former state wards and Forgotten Australians. It demonstrates the breadth and depth of history and memory work that is taking place on and around places of incarceration and confinement in Australia
Sites of conscience: Remembering disappearance , execution, imprisonment, murder, slavery and torture
- Authors: Ashton, Paul , Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Silent system: Forgotten Australians and the Instititionalisation of women and children Chapter 5 p. 59-71
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The Parramatta female factory precinct and the National history curriculum
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Russell, Peter , McCart, Simon
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Silent system: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of women and children Chapter 11 p. 132-145
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- Description: In September 2013 a conference was held to commemorate and promote a site which those present unanimously acknowledged as bemg of ma;or historical significance, but which is all but unknown in the wider Australian community. The Parramatta Female Factory Precinct (PFFP) is one of a handful of historical sites chat represent the history of women's and children's incarceration and institutionalisation in Australia. Of that handful, the PFFP is by far the most extensive site in area, in operational longevity and in the number of extant structures it comprises. It thus stands as arguably che premier institutional exemplar in the historical field and has in recent years become a locus embodying the experiences of the Forgotten A
Educational Dissonance: Reconciling a radical upbringing
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Pedagogies for the future: Leading quality learning and teaching in higher education p. 125-139
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'The incarcerated'
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives p. 455-459
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Dark Tourism and National Identity in the Australian history curriculum
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Tourism and National Identities [electronic resource] : An International Perspective. p.
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