13 research outputs found
Manifestations of Institutional Reform and Resistance to Reform in Ulster Workhouses, Ireland, 1838-1855
Colonial institutions : uses, subversions, and material afterlives
Archaeologically based explorations of colonialism or institutions are common case-studies in global historical archaeology, but the "colonial institution"-the role of institutions as operatives of colonialism-has often been neglected. In this thematic edition we argue that in order to fully understand the interconnected, global world one must explicitly dissect the colonial institution as an entwined, dual manifestation that is central to understanding both power and power relations in the modern world. Following Ann Laura Stoler, we have selected case studies from the Australia, Europe, UK and the USAwhich reveal that the study of colonial institutions should not be limited to the functional life of these institutions-or solely those that take the form of monumental architecture-but should include the long shadow of "imperial debris" (Stoler 2008) and immaterial institutions
Light and Darkness in an Edwardian Institution for the Insane Poor—Illuminating the Material Practices of the Asylum age
Mistress of her Domain: Matron Hicks and the Hyde Park Destitute Asylum, Sydney, Australia
The Archaeological Gaze: Surveying the Landscape of Social Power in Portraiture in Colonial New England
Religious colonialism in early modern Malta : inquisitorial imprisonment and inmate graffiti
Early modern Malta was governed by three institutions—the Order of St. John, the Bishopric, and the Roman Inquisition—which all ultimately answered to the Holy See. By focusing on the institution under the most direct Papal control, the inquisition, this paper seeks to explore the role of imprisonment in furthering the Vatican’s cultural and political control on the island. Through analyses of the prison cells and the inmate’s graffiti, I argue that the inquisition’s ability to imprison and negate the spectacle of public suffering was crucial to the Vatican’s colonial position in Malta