Abstract
In this paper, we reflect on our experience of running a Guerilla Walking Tour of the now decommissioned and repurposed HM Prison Pentridge. This original teaching activity, conducted with Master of Criminology students, was grounded in traditions of critical and radical pedagogy, which stem from the broad recognition that education can never be neutral or value free, but rather, that it is a political process through which students can become actively engaged in the worlds they are learning about so that they can critique and transform them. To this end, our walking tour was designed to encourage students to examine the role power plays in the (re)constitution of social memory, and to reflect on the implications this has for addressing colonial and carceral violence in contemporary institutions.
Recommended Citation
Carlton, Bree and Gillespie, Liam
(2025)
"Reimagining Carceral Spaces – A Guerilla Tour of HM Prison Pentridge.,"
Feminist Pedagogy: Vol. 6:
Iss.
4, Article 11.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpedagogy/vol6/iss4/11