Re-interpreting convict transportation: Decolonising the convict transportation exhibition at the National Justice Museum, Nottingham

重新解读囚犯运输：诺丁汉国家司法博物馆的囚犯运输展览去殖民化

• 批准号: 2893545
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Nottingham Trent University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2893545
• 关键词: Re; interpreting; convict; transportation; Decolonising

This project draws on decolonial theory and praxis to re-imagine museum interpretation around convict transportation. It explores how historic sites linked to convict transportation and penal settlement can better incorporate stories of displacement and subordination of indigenous populations linking these to contemporary narratives of exile, deportation, and confinement.The National Justice Museum (NJM) is a criminal justice collection, heritage site and education provider that occupies the site of Nottingham County courts, gaol and police headquarters. Its focus is inequality, justice and human rights. It is a nationally styled accredited museum and a charitable trust. Opened in 2010, the convict transportation exhibition at the National Justice Museum offers an immersive experience modelled on an eighteenth-century convict ship travelling from England to Australia. The exhibition draws on the site's history as holding prison and point of departure for the colonies. As such it provides the starting point for a comparative analysis of existing narratives of transportation told in prison museums across the UK, exploring these via a decolonial theoretical framework. The research will lay the groundwork for the redevelopment of National Justice Museum's convict transportation exhibition. Its findings will be used to leverage funding for the gallery redevelopment and shape and inform shape and inform the exhibition strategy, interpretation content, inclusion of objects and archive material.Indicative preliminary research questions:- What current perceptions do visitors and stakeholders hold around convict transportation? - How can interpretation engage with specific histories linked to built heritage while connecting these to wider, transnational stories of convict transportation and its legacies?- How can stories of indigenous populations upon whose land penal colonies were created be centred within transportation narratives?- What role can creative practices focused on decoloniality play within and beyond the museum?- How can interpretive practices ensure inclusive and sensitive language and imagery when telling stories of suffering and erasure associated with convict transportation, forced labour and imprisonment?In addition to the academic thesis, the researcher will be responsible for running a series of 'ideation' sessions with museum stakeholders and community members. These will inform the creation of a policy document and decolonial toolkit aimed specifically at museums focused on the history of crime and punishment. The researcher will also have the opportunity to design a new 'pause and reflect' space adjacent to the current convict transportation exhibition. The project is truly interdisciplinary and we invite candidates from a range of backgrounds including (but not limited to) history, museum and heritage studies, criminology, sociology, cultural studies, postcolonial and critical race studies. We expect the researcher to develop their own focus and approach but anticipate the use of the following methods: a. Fieldwork ethnography at museums and heritage sites in the UK.b. Archival and collection research - National Justice Museum hold important archival resources including material on child transportation. Notable is a register for Millbank Prison 1840-1845 and material from the Rainer Foundation. There is scope to connect these stories to those of the removal of indigenous children from their families in Australia and Canada.c. Oral history and focus group work with community and advocacy groupsd. Creative practice in developing engagement activities and presenting findings to non-specialist audiences.

该项目借鉴了非殖民理论和实践，以重新构想围绕定罪运输的博物馆解释。它探讨了如何与定罪交通和刑事解决方案相关的历史遗迹如何更好地纳入将这些人群与当代流亡，驱逐出境和禁令联系起来的土著人口的故事和从属。它的重点是不平等，正义和人权。这是一家具有全国风格的认可博物馆和慈善信托基金。在2010年开业的国家司法博物馆的定罪交通展览提供了一种身临其境的体验，该展览以18世纪的一艘从英格兰前往澳大利亚旅行的罪犯船为仿制。该展览借鉴了该地点的历史，因为他们将监狱和殖民地的出发点。因此，它为在英国各地的监狱博物馆中讲述的现有运输叙事进行比较分析提供了一个起点，并通过非殖民地理论框架探索了这些叙述。这项研究将为重建国家司法博物馆的定罪交通展览的重建奠定基础。它的发现将用于利用画廊重建和形状的资金，并为形状提供信息，并为展览策略，解释内容，对象和存档材料提供信息。指示性初步研究问题： - 访客和利益相关者对定罪运输的目前看法和利益相关者持当前的看法？ - 解释如何与与建筑遗产相关的特定历史，同时将它们与更广泛的，定罪交通及其遗产联系起来的更广泛的，跨国的故事？ - 如何创建土著人口的故事的故事，如何将其创建在运输叙事中的中心？与定罪交通，强迫劳动和监禁有关？除了学术论文外，研究人员还将负责与博物馆利益相关者和社区成员进行一系列“想法”会议。这些将为创建政策文件和非殖民工具包的创建，专门针对涉及犯罪和惩罚历史的博物馆。研究人员还将有机会设计一个与当前定罪交通展览相邻的新“停顿”空间。该项目确实是跨学科的，我们邀请了来自一系列背景的候选人，包括（但不限于）历史，博物馆和遗产研究，犯罪学，社会学，文化研究，后殖民和关键种族研究。我们希望研究人员能够发展自己的重点和方法，但可以预料以下方法的使用：英国博物馆和遗产的现场工作民族志档案和收集研究 - 国家司法博物馆拥有重要的档案资源，包括有关儿童运输的材料。值得注意的是1840- 1845年米尔班克监狱的登记册和雷纳基金会的材料。这些故事的范围可以将这些故事与从澳大利亚和加拿大的家人中删除土著儿童的范围联系起来。口述历史和焦点小组与社区和倡导团体合作。在开发参与活动和向非专业观众展示发现方面的创造性实践。