Occupations as reparative urban infrastructure: thinking with Cissie Gool House

Scheba, Suraya; Millington, Nate

doi:10.1080/13604813.2023.2266192

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2023

DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2266192

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Occupations as reparative urban infrastructure: thinking with Cissie Gool House

Suraya Scheba,

Nate Millington

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Australian railway histories are dominated by narratives of engineering triumphs, colonial expansion into empty land, and bringing civilisation and development through railway infrastructure. These settler‐colonial stories can be read back on themselves as histories and geographies of Aboriginal dispossession and colonial possession. Indeed, Aboriginal people, lands, waterways, and cultures have always been implicated in railway infrastructures, willingly or not. Aboriginal people’s entanglements with the New South Wales railways, to which we refer as “rail relations,” have involved dispossession, removal, employment, mobility, and travel, including the forced removal of children known as the Stolen Generations. These are relations of harm, loss, and grief but also of pride, connectivity, and survival. We argue in this paper that when Aboriginal communities engage in storying the New South Wales railways as Aboriginal they reassemble this infrastructure otherwise: not just as a tool of dispossession but also as life affirming. Indigenous storytelling can therefore overcome settler colonial erasure and the oversimplification of railway infrastructure hi/stories. Research about how Aboriginal lives have been interconnected with railways expansion and development is limited. While Aboriginal railway stories are continuously told within communities, they remain almost entirely silenced elsewhere. Overcoming the invisibility of Aboriginal rail relations is crucial as both truth‐telling of the past and to ensure more just infrastructural outcomes now and in the future.

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Occupations as reparative urban infrastructure: thinking with Cissie Gool House

Cited by 3 publications

References 65 publications

De-infrastructuring automobility: The politics of urban highway repurposing and removal in São Paulo and Madrid

De-infrastructuring automobility: The politics of urban highway repurposing and removal in São Paulo and Madrid

The origins and evolution of a research agenda on new urban ruins

Rail relations: Aboriginal storywork and remaking Australia’s settler‐colonial infrastructure

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