Race, Australian Colonialism and Technologies of Mobility in Kalgoorlie

Tranter, K; Anthony, T

Race, Australian Colonialism and Technologies of Mobility in Kalgoorlie

Tranter, K Anthony, T

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Publisher:: The University of Western Australia
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: University of Western Australia Law Review, 2019, 45 (2), pp. 99 - 135
Issue Date:: 2019-06-03

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dc.contributor.author	Tranter, K	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Anthony, T https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0652-0731	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-06-03	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	University of Western Australia Law Review, 2019, 45 (2), pp. 99 - 135	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0042-0328	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	This article argues that the legal texts that record the death of Indigenous boy Elijah Doughty in a reserve in Kalgoorlie-Boulder in 2016 highlights the intersections of technologies of mobility within the Australian colonial project. Elijah died when the small motorcycle he was riding was run over by a large utility vehicle driven by the non-Indigenous assailant, ‘WSM’. This occurred within a wider social media centred context of racist anxieties and hate speech directed towards Indigenous children being in public and mobile around Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Elijah’s death and the subsequent legal reactions, to Indigenous protests, to the endurance of social media racist hate speech directed to Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Indigenous children, to determining the location of the trial and who can speak at the trial, to the concern and pity expressed towards ‘WSM’, shows how technologies of mobility, reinstate and bolster colonial mobilities and their destructive effects on Indigenous people.	en_US
dc.publisher	The University of Western Australia	en_US
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dc.title	Race, Australian Colonialism and Technologies of Mobility in Kalgoorlie	en_US
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Abstract:

This article argues that the legal texts that record the death of Indigenous boy Elijah Doughty in a reserve in Kalgoorlie-Boulder in 2016 highlights the intersections of technologies of mobility within the Australian colonial project. Elijah died when the small motorcycle he was riding was run over by a large utility vehicle driven by the non-Indigenous assailant, ‘WSM’. This occurred within a wider social media centred context of racist anxieties and hate speech directed towards Indigenous children being in public and mobile around Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Elijah’s death and the subsequent legal reactions, to Indigenous protests, to the endurance of social media racist hate speech directed to Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s Indigenous children, to determining the location of the trial and who can speak at the trial, to the concern and pity expressed towards ‘WSM’, shows how technologies of mobility, reinstate and bolster colonial mobilities and their destructive effects on Indigenous people.

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