Narratives of food insecurity in the penal colony: interpreting memories of 'slow violence' in French Guiana and New Caledonia
Narratives of food insecurity in the penal colony: interpreting memories of 'slow violence' in French Guiana and New Caledonia
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流放地粮食不安全的叙述：解读法属圭亚那和新喀里多尼亚“缓慢暴力”的记忆
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10.1080/09639489.2023.2230448
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2023
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在几十年的集体遗忘之后，遗产倡议的结果是恢复了与法国在19和20世纪在法属圭亚那和新喀里多尼亚的前流放地有关的遗址。在这两个地区，专门介绍“bagne”历史的博物馆都是在曾经用作厨房和面包店的建筑中创建的。然而，与其他形式的刑罚遗产一样，围绕那些被送往刑罚殖民地的人的食物不安全的生活经历，创造更细致和持续的叙述的机会，仍然服从于对身体约束和体罚的耸人听闻的描述。本文分析了两组遗址的现有叙事和博物馆学，确定了围绕食物、营养和可持续性的进一步记忆和解释工作的潜力。这篇文章探讨了囚犯的回忆录和信件，强调了由劣质农产品和囚犯口中口粮分配不均造成的营养不良的“缓慢暴力”。更广泛的目的是考虑如何在前刑事遗产遗址中发展粮食不安全的历史叙述，以促进对当代粮食贫困形式的认识和同情，强调粮食不安全仍被用作监禁空间内的一种控制形式。
After decades of collective forgetting, heritage initiatives have resulted in the restoration of sites linked to France’s former penal colonies in French Guiana and New Caledonia which operated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In both territories, museums dedicated to the history of the ‘bagne’ have been created in buildings once used as kitchens and bakeries. However, as with other forms of penal heritage, the opportunity to create more nuanced and sustained narratives around the lived experience of food insecurity for those sent to the penal colonies remains subordinated to more sensationalist accounts of physical constraint and corporal punishment. This article analyses existing narratives and museography at the two sets of sites, identifying potential for further memory and interpretive work around food, nutrition, and sustainability. The article explores convict memoirs and correspondence that emphasise the ‘slow violence’ of malnutrition resulting from poor-quality produce and unequal distributions of rations amongst convict populations. The wider intention is to consider how historical narratives of food insecurity can be developed at sites of former penal heritage to foster awareness and empathy around contemporary forms of food poverty, emphasising that food insecurity is still used as a form of control within spaces of confinement.