Bibliotheks OPAC
Deutsch Deutsch
Sprache wechseln
Aktionen
  • Titel
    Traveling with Trained Man : Decolonizing directions in railway mobilities
  • Person
  • Verfasserangaben
    Katie Mahrer
  • Erscheinungsjahr
    2020
  • Seiten
    Seite 83 - 102
  • Illustrationen
    Illustration
  • Gesamtwerk
    book
  • Anmerkungen
    Erschienen in: Transfers, 2-3/2020
Abstract

This article considers the railways as a decolonial option for moving toward mobility justice. It views the photographic artwork Trained Man by Ngalkban Australian artist Darren Siwes through a mobilities lens, considering how the artist plays with time and attends to space, making visible what colonial projects of protection and assimilation have attempted to erase. Attending to the truths and imaginaries that reside and move with Trained Man, it draws on the work of Aboriginal and Black artists, scholars, and activists to trace Australia's past and present colonial history of training Aboriginal people into whiteness. It considers the railways as carrying “two lines of destiny” with potential moving in both colonial and decolonial directions. The article concludes by suggesting that shared spaces such as the railways open possibilities for mobilizing the decolonial project.