ABSTRACT Transported from Great Britain across the Anglosphere and into the fledgling commercial centres of the Tasman world, larceny was a way of life for most colonists and not easily contained. The porousness of Sydney’s urban and rural landscapes was an additional provocation for the period’s criminal population to continue pilfering goods, to embezzle and abscond. The following account describes the spatial dimensions of pilfering’s relation to colonial power giving rise to more and higher walls around manufactories, worksite-based labour management practices, and intensified surveillance nearly everywhere. Sydney’s built environment evolved to incorporate functional responses to the deprivations of systemic thievery, although the building outcomes were only partly determined by panoptical planning because period understanding of property crime and how it might be prevented was also changing. The colonial architecture was productive of knowledge-power relationships serving to define labour and labouring subjects in novel ways. These contributed to an “aesthetics of pilfering” whereby the perception of thieving acts was contextualised relative to a new moral compass, oriented to detect varied classes of perpetrators, settings, and stolen goods.

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盗窃与塔斯曼世界：早期悉尼殖民时代的商业定罪与空间“证券化”

摘要从英国穿越盎格鲁圈进入塔斯曼世界刚刚起步的商业中心，盗窃是大多数殖民者的一种生活方式，不容易控制。悉尼城市和乡村景观的漏洞是这一时期犯罪人口继续偷窃、贪污和潜逃的又一挑衅。以下描述描述了盗窃与殖民权力关系的空间维度，这导致工厂周围越来越高的围墙、基于工地的劳工管理实践以及几乎无处不在的强化监视。悉尼的建筑环境演变为对系统性盗窃的剥夺进行功能性反应，尽管建筑结果只是部分地由全景规划决定，因为对财产犯罪及其预防方式的时期理解也在发生变化。殖民建筑产生了知识-权力关系，以新颖的方式定义劳动和劳动主体。这些促成了“偷窃美学”，其中盗窃行为的感知与新的道德指南针相关，旨在检测不同类别的犯罪者、环境和赃物。