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- Title
Quarantine Matters: Colonial Quarantine at North Head, Sydney and Its Material and Ideological Ruins.
- Authors
Longhurst, Peta
- Abstract
Australia's quarantine regulations have their roots in colonial practice. This paper is concerned with the 'matter' of quarantine-its location, spatialization, and materialization-and the ways in which it contributed to the colonial agenda. Through an exploration of Sydney's North Head Quarantine Station, quarantine is shown to be a technology through which the colony and the continent were framed as simultaneously pure and vulnerable. These colonial roots of quarantine practice are then brought back to the present, drawing on Stoler's (2008) concept of 'imperial debris' to contemplate the contemporary ruins, both material and ideological, of colonial quarantine practice.
- Subjects
SYDNEY (N.S.W.); AUSTRALIA; 19TH century imperialism; QUARANTINE; PUBLIC health; ARCHAEOLOGICAL assemblages; HISTORY
- Publication
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2016, Vol 20, Issue 3, p589
- ISSN
1092-7697
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10761-016-0360-7