Unsettling Colonial Automobilities

Criminalisation and Contested Sovereignties

Thalia Anthony, Juanita Sherwood, Harry Blagg, Kieran Tranter

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781800710832
• eBook ISBN: 9781800710849
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Note on Terms
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Colonial Processes of Enforced Mobility and Immobility
• Chapter 2 Neo-Colonial Interventions – Regulating First Nations Peoples’ Motor Vehicles and Criminalising Drivers
• Chapter 3 Cars, Courts and Carceralism
• Chapter 4 Necroautomobility and the Colonial Chase in the Cultural Imagination
• Chapter 5 No Justice, No Peace: Police Necroautomobility and Lack of Accountability
• Chapter 6 ‘I’ve Been Chased by People in Cars – White People in Cars’ – Settler Necroautomobility in the Murders and Disappearances of First Nations Peoples
• Chapter 7 Automobility in First Nations Sovereignty-Making
• Conclusion
• References
• Index