Your “Eyesore,” My History? People and “Dead” Cars in a Remote Aboriginal Community (March 2021)
Kate Senior (Author)
Richard Chenhall (Author)
Daphne Daniels (Author)
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Volume: 11
Issue: 1
Pages: 3-26
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.
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