Your “Eyesore,” My History? People and “Dead” Cars in a Remote Aboriginal Community

Title: Your “Eyesore,” My History? People and “Dead” Cars in a Remote Aboriginal Community
Creator: Senior, Kate; Chenhall, Richard; Daniels, Daphne
Relation: Transfers Vol. 11, Issue 1, p. 3-26
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2021.110102
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2021
Description: In this article we visit a car junkyard in the small Arnhem Land outstation of Nalawan in the top end of Australia's Northern Territory. Using both a mobilities paradigm and recent theorizing of waste from the global south, we will argue through our ethnographic observations that the wrecked cars become mobile, reassembled, and reconceptualized in a range of surprising ways. Though now immobile, the stories they encapsulate continue to circulate and reverberate with the complexities and tensions of Indigenous mobilities.
Subject: car junkyard; contested understanding; Indigenous Australia; memorials; mobilities; remote communities
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1451954
Identifier: uon:44319
Identifier: ISSN:2045-4813
Language: eng
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