A critical reading of the Abbotsford Convent complex: Confronting sites of trauma, social memory, lived experience, and institutions of state “care”
Published online on September 19, 2025
Abstract
Crime, Media, Culture, Ahead of Print.
The article utilises an auto-ethnographic approach to examine the former Abbotsford Convent and Sacred Heart Complex, which incorporated the Magdalene Asylum, a reformatory for young offenders and the Industrial School for neglected children, in inner-...
The article utilises an auto-ethnographic approach to examine the former Abbotsford Convent and Sacred Heart Complex, which incorporated the Magdalene Asylum, a reformatory for young offenders and the Industrial School for neglected children, in inner-...