Colonial Institutions and Their Enduring Material Aftermaths

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2014

The role of institutions and the experience of institutional life have received significant attention from historical archaeologists for over the past decade. Institutions ‘in their many and varied forms ‘have played important roles in regulating society and furthering the aims of many colonial/imperial projects. Their remnants, ‘be they material and/or ideological’, often persist long after independence. Drawing on Ann Laura Stoler’s concept of ‘Imperial Debris (2008) we would like to invite papers that offer an archaeological perspective on institutions in colonial and imperial contexts. This can include consideration of their enduring aftermaths, as well as exploring how the colonial experience of institutionalisation has ‘acted back’ on the imperial heartland. We aim to provoke debate, discussion and synthesis between scholars utilising both singular and comparative perspectives and welcome submission from any geographical context, 1500 to ‘present.

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  1. Building Ideas: lunatic asylum reform in the British Isles, 1815-1845 (2014)
  2. Colonial Quarantine: Spatialisation and materialisation at the North Head Quarantine Station in Sydney, Australia (2014)
  3. Graffiti revelations and the changing meanings of Kilmainham Gaol, Ireland (2014)
  4. Imposed and Home-Grown Colonial Institutions: The Jesuit Chapels of St. Mary’s City and St. Francis Xavier, Maryland (2014)
  5. The Indian Mariners Project at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum (2014)
  6. Life Among Ruins: Bermuda and Britain’s Imperial Debris (2014)
  7. Negotiating internment: craftwork and prisoner experience, Ireland 1916-1923 (2014)
  8. Nobody’s Stooge: Matron Hicks and the Hyde Park Barracks Destitute Asylum (2014)
  9. A Place for Convicts: The Fremantle Lunatic Asylum (2014)
  10. Religious Colonialism: prison graffiti at the Inquisitor’s Palace, Malta (2014)
  11. Reproducing the National Family: Postcolonial Reunion Rituals, Landmarks and Objects (2014)
  12. Set in stone and pencilled in: indelible memories and the inscription of space at the North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney (2014)
  13. Topographies of tension: institutional remains and the politics of ruination in 20th century Greek border transformations (2014)
  14. Water for the City, Ruins for the Country: Archaeology of the NYC Watershed (2014)