Unsettling Colonial Automobilities: Criminalisation and Contested Sovereignties

• Main Authors: Anthony, Thalia, Sherwood, Juanita, Blagg, Harry, Tranter, Kieran
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: Emerald Group Publishing Limited 1481
• Subjects: Canada; New Zealand; First Nations
• Online Access: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/245061/

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.