- 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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