Unsettling Colonial Automobilities

Thalia Anthony is Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.Juanita Sherwood is Professor of Indigenous Education, Health and Research in the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.Harry Blagg is Professor of Criminology at the University of Western Australia.Kieran Tranter is the Chair of Law, Technology and Future at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Colonial Processes of Enforced Mobility and ImmobilityChapter 2. Neo-colonial Interventions – Regulating First Nations Peoples’ Motor Vehicles and Criminalising DriversChapter 3. Cars, Courts and CarceralismChapter 4. Necroautomobility and the Colonial Chase in the Cultural ImaginationChapter 5. No Justice, No Peace: Police Necroautomobility and Lack of AccountabilityChapter 6. “I’ve Been Chased by People in Cars – White People in Cars” – Settler Necroautomobility in the Murders and Disappearances of First Nations PeoplesChapter 7. Automobility in First Nations Sovereignty-MakingConclusion

With the turn of every page, you will be intrigued, because who would have ever thought that a motor vehicle and its relationship with First Nations Australians would be so intense and ever so present in our criminalization since colonization that it continues even today.