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dc.contributor.authorCostanzo, B
dc.contributor.authorBull, M
dc.contributor.authorSmith, C
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-04T00:47:46Z
dc.date.available2018-12-04T00:47:46Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.issn1321-8166
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/qre.2013.22
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/60163
dc.description.abstractWhen analysed in context, prison graffiti can provide valuable insight into the lived experiences of incarcerated individuals. This study uses Brisbane’s Boggo Road Gaol as a case study site to evaluate the importance of historical, social and political context in the interpretation of prison graffiti. Visual ethnographic methodology was employed to allow the triangulation of various contextualising resources: newspaper articles, government reports, biographies and institutional records, and the graffiti. We discuss the theme of resistance as an example to demonstrate the value of the contextual analysis of images. By locating the graffiti within the historical, social and political context that it was produced, the significance of the graffiti is identified, and the ambiguity associated with the interpretation of images potentially is reduced. A contextualised analysis of prison graffiti provides a narrative of prison life, allowing the independent expression of prisoners to be ‘heard’.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.format.extent762367 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom215
dc.relation.ispartofpageto230
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalQueensland Review
dc.relation.ispartofvolume20
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther history, heritage and archaeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistory and philosophy of specific fields
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440299
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4303
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4399
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5002
dc.titleIf These Walls Could Speak: A Visual Ethnography of Graffiti at Boggo Road Gaol
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2013. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/) which permits unrestricted distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
gro.date.issued2015-05-06T03:06:36Z
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorSmith, Kate


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