Prisons Memory Archive (Portfolio)
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 99230269
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component portfolio
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Prisons Memory Archive is a portfolio of two documentary films We Were There (61 mins, 2014) and Armagh Stories (58 mins, 2015) with three textual components: ‘Memory, Place and Gender - Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol’ in Memory Studies (2017); ‘Stories from the Inside: The Prisons Memory Archive’ in Andrews, C. and McGuire, M. (eds.) Post Conflict Literature: Human Rights, Peace, Justice (2016); ‘Who Tells What to Whom and How: the Prisons Memory Archive’ in p-e-r-f-o-r-m-a-n-c-e.org (Vol 1, 2014). While these are substantial pieces of work on their own, each is best assessed with reference to one another.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research portfolio comprises: We Were There (61 mins, 2014) and Armagh Stories (58 mins, 2015); ‘Memory, Place and Gender: Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol’ in Memory Studies (13 (4):2020); ‘Stories from the Inside: The Prisons Memory Archive’ in Andrews, C. and McGuire, M. (eds.) Post Conflict Literature: Human Rights, Peace, Justice (London: Routledge, 2016); ‘Who Tells What to Whom and How: the Prisons Memory Archive’ in p-e-r-f-o-r-m-a-n-c-e.org (v.1, 2014, online journal).
The two documentary films were edited from the Prisons Memory Archive, filmed in 2006 and 2007, with a grant from the NHLF, at the prison sites that operated during the conflict known as the Troubles. WWT addresses the role of women in the male Maze and Long Kesh Prison, e.g. as probation officers, teachers, and visitors; and AS addresses the female prison experience, e.g. prison officers, prisoners, and teachers in Armagh Gaol. The key question addressed was how to represent in filmic form the experiences of a conflicted past in a contested present. The films investigate the differences of women’s experiences, whatever their roles, within the prison system. The protocols were central to their consent to contribute, as well as the opportunity to return to sites that were associated with violence and trauma. The articles critically reflect on these films, as well as the full archive, by investigating how the protocols of inclusivity, co-ownership and life-storytelling affect the process and outcomes.
The films have been screened locally at community events/workshops and schools, and internationally at film festivals and academic institutions. The former includes ex-service personnel, working class-communities, women’s groups, and colleges; the latter includes Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Spain, France and Germany. The articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and an edited collection and address either the films directly or related themes within the PMA research.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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