After the orphanage : Life beyond the children's home
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Historical Studies Vol. 41, no. 1 (2010), p. 119-120
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Adolescent resistance narratives in a satirical schoolyard : The case of summer heights high
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Australian Studies Vol. 33, no. 3 (2009), p. 305-316
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- Description: The Australian 'mockumentary' Summer Heights High depicts a fictional secondary school. Among the protagonists are archetypal adolescents - male and female - whose relationships with the institution and their peers may be interpreted as resistance narratives. Although purportedly satirical representations, the characters are depicted with striking realism; as such, it is argued, they may serve as models for analysis of the school environment. This article focuses on Jonah, an eighth-grader whose learning difficulties, literacy problems, and anti-social behaviour are entwined with his self-identification as an ethnic (Polynesian) outsider. His behaviours and attitude may be seen as a radically inarticulate expression of his own ethnic, social, and intellectual otherness. It is argued here that because of the mutually intractable and radically opposed natures of the traditional education institution and the 'Jonahs' with whom it must deal, only a paradigm shift in the system and perhaps society overall will 'save' such students. The article discusses alternative education models, and argues that current political pressures on schools and teachers to 'improve performance' miss the point and do more harm than good. © 2009 International Australian Studies Association.
Representing Pentridge : The loss of narrative diversity in the populist interpretation of a former total institution
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Historical Studies Vol. 36, no. 125 (2005), p. 113-133
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- Description: This article examines the proposed popular historical interpretation of the decommissioned Pentridge Prison, in the course of its redevelopment as a residential and commercial precinct. The interpretation is judged to have been 'appropriated' by a 'gatekeeper' group comprising former prison officers in partnership with the commercially motivated site owners. In the process, it is argued, a wide range of 'alternative' narratives are excluded from the prison's public history. Examples of such narrative options are presented, including that of the author, who identifies as a stakeholder in the interpretation of the prison. This narrative 'sampling' is done with a view to asking how the consequent broader interpretation can be conveyed to visitors to the site. 'The eternal questions that concern historians … are the ones with which we grapple endlessly. Whose history is being told? Whose history is left out? Whose collective memory should be celebrated? Whose is forgotten? Which past should be preserved? Which re-created?'
- Description: 2003002438
Ellen Kelly
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Australian dictionary of biography Chapter p. 213-214
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Australian prison tourism : A question of narrative integrity
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: History Compass Vol. 9, no. 8 (2011), p. 562-571
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- Description: The article discusses the special nature of prison tourism in Australia, given the nation's origins, just over two centuries ago, as a penal colony, and the significant role thus played by convicts in the development of Australian society. Prison tourism is also examined as almost the only type of 'dark tourism' widely undertaken within Australia. It is argued that a combination of prevailing social attitudes and the influence of certain stakeholder groups limit or skew the narratives inherent in former prison sites, with consequent negative ramifications for the historical and social integrity of the sites. (Author abstract).
Transformative justice: transdisciplinary collaborations for archival autonomy
- Authors: Evans, Joanne , Wilson, Jacqueline , Lewis, Antonina , McGinniss, David , Altham, Siobhan
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Archives and Records Vol. 42, no. 1 (2021), p. 3-24
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- Description: Worldwide inquiries into childhood institutionalization repeatedly document systemic and enduring problems with fractured and fragmented recordkeeping and archiving systems that put the protection of organizations and institutions ahead of the safety and wellbeing of those in their care. As importantly, they demonstrate how much recordkeeping matters in people’s lives and the role that records play in developing and nurturing identity, connection to family, community, and culture, and as instruments of accountability, restitution, and redress. They highlight the transdisciplinarity inherent in recordkeeping endeavours, and for research and praxis in child welfare and protection to transcend disciplinary, professional, and community boundaries to ensure that systems created to protect children from neglect and abuse do not themselves cause harm. In this article we explore the transformative justice approach of the Archives and the Rights of the Child Research Programme, that, through transdisciplinary collaborations investigating rights-based recordkeeping, aims to advance archival autonomy, the ability of individuals and communities to participate in organizational and societal evidence and memory structures with their own voice. This broad re-imagining of recordkeeping is vital if we are to escape endless cycles of ambiguous and disappointing transitional justice outcomes, through recognizing voice and agency in recordkeeping as a human right. © 2020 Archives and Records Association. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Jacqueline Wilson, David McGinniss, Siobhan Altham" is provided in this record**
Relics of a desperate act : Escape and containment in J Ward
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: History Australia Vol. 1, no. 1 (2003), p. 41-57
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- Description: The paper interrogates implied and explicit narrative aspects of the standard guided tour taken by tourists visiting the forrner Centre for the Criminally Insane, 'J Ward' (closed in 1991), in the Victorian country town of Ararat. Of particular note are tour guides' accounts of certain routine procedures of inmate management andcontainment, including the punitive administralion of 'shock' treatment, and anecdotal depictions of escape attempts by notorious prisoners, especially Garry David The reality of inmate experience is found to be grossly euphemised and historically distorted in the retelling, rendering intrinsically shocking and disturbing episodes entertaining and acceptable, even in some cases amusing. It is argued that this process, along with the sale, as souvenirs, of artefacts reportedly associated with an escape attempt, both commodifies the suffering of inmates and in some cases perpetuates the 'containment' imperative of those charged with their incarceration.
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- Description: 2003003470