Unsettling Colonial Automobilities

Criminalisation and Contested Sovereignties

Thalia Anthony author Kieran Tranter author Harry Blagg author Juanita Sherwood author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited

Published:14th Dec '23

Should be back in stock very soon

Unsettling Colonial Automobilities cover

Unsettling Colonial Automobilities explores the vehicle's role in imposing colonialism on Indigenous people and proposes an Indigenous automobility that reclaims sovereignty over place and centricity.

Based on extensive fieldwork within First Nations communities, accounts from Indigenous scholars and activists in Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Canada and the United States, and cinematic/literary representations, this contribution challenges unrestricted mobility in modernity and highlights the vehicle's impact on Indigenous communities. Chapters examine how Indigenous people are criminalized for non-compliance with vehicle regulations, explores the vehicle as a tool of racial violence, and discusses how Indigenous communities utilize vehicles for protection, cultural expression, and reconnection with their land.

By demonstrating the vehicle's involvement in colonial violence and its potential for empowering Indigenous cultures, Unsettling Colonial Automobilities acknowledges the significance of human movement, migration, and boundary-transcendence in modern life while acknowledging the dark history associated with these phenomena.

With the turn of every page, you will be intrigued, because who would have ever thought that a motor vehicle and its relationship with First Nations Australians would be so intense and ever so present in our criminalization since colonization that it continues even today.

-- Leanne Liddle, Arrernte Woman, Northern Territory Australian of the Year 2022 and Director of the Northern Territory Aboriginal Justice

ISBN: 9781800710832

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 429g

216 pages